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Dr Nina S. Studer

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Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ 🗃️🍸 Passionate about literature and theatre. She/her https://nina-studer.com

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Nov 10

A list of all my publications can be found on my website (nina-studer.com/work-publica...), but let me tell you about my #OpenAccess publications! #ColonialHistory #GenderStudies #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfPsychiatry 🗃️

Work, Publications, Research - Nina S. Studer

Publications, academic articles, popular history articles, book chapters, reviews and presentations by Nina Studer.

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 1d

And more for people in Switzerland: I will give a presentation with the title "Leaky Masculinities: Imperialism & Nocturnal Pollutions in 19th-Century Medical Theories" at the ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History in Zürich next week! Do come!

🗃️ #histmed #skystorians

Screenshot of the programme of the "Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-Euroepan History", on Thursdays, 16:15-17:45, at ETH Zürich Hauptgebäude, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich. At the top, it says "University of Zürich" and "ETH Zürich". Below this is a 19th-century map of the world, showing, I guess, trading routes. Below this map, it shows the first two presentations of this seminar. The first is one by Dr. Lasse Heerten (on the 2nd of October), and the second is by Dr. Nina Studer (Université de Genève), on the 16th of October 2025.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 29d

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 2d

For more information, see here: www.unige.ch/cmcss/actual...

#histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians #FrenchHistory #SwissHistory #Geneva

La virilité en question - du 21 au 24 octobre 2025 - Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités (CMCSS) - UNIGE

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 2d

If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A!

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This image shows a black and white, early 20th century French advert for an electronic belt (Herculex, by a Dr Sanden), early 20th century. On the right hand side is the drawing of an older man in formal clothes, while on the left hand side, there is a drawing of two young, white men, wearing only shorts. The one on the left is holding up one of these belts in his right hand, while also wearing one, while the one on the right is on his knees, in the process of getting up, looking up at the other man. The title of this advert is "Regained Virility".

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Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social · Sep 4

Me and my wandering womb are thrilled to see the Nursing Clio Reader in print! Kudos to the whole @nursingclio.bsky.social team on an amazing volume!

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 21

There was even the idea, both in Britain in the 19th & in France's North African colonies in the 20th century, of teaism/theism/théisme, a problem viewed as potentially worse than alcoholism! One of my very favourite topics!

Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Aug 21

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 13

It does look amazing, doesn't it? Cannot wait to see it!

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ha. I am so sorry! I thought you had posted it on another post I made today, about an advert for cigarettes. So - absinthe: No, definitely not. 19th-century absinthe was no more (or less!) dangerous than any other similarly alcoholic drink of the time & had no harmful additives in it.

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

might have been Jewish. Not that this (Hugo Zietz being Jewish) would necessarily exclude the possibility of antisemitic tropes being used in adverts for these cigarettes, obviously!

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

How grim if that is what this advert represents! I wrote this in reply to @mirk47.bsky.social, who also mentioned this: I thought of those tropes, but I believe that Hugo Zietz, the founder of the company ("Orientalische Tabak- & Cigarettenfabrik Yenidze") that produced these cigarettes, [...]

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Not that this (Hugo Zietz being Jewish) would necessarily exclude the possibility of antisemitic tropes being used in adverts for these cigarettes, obviously!

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

That is a great point - I completely agree. I thought of those tropes myself, but I believe that Hugo Zietz, the founder of the company ("Orientalische Tabak- & Cigarettenfabrik Yenidze") that produced these cigarettes, might have been Jewish. Not entirely sure - I really need to find out more!

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Oh, I like that idea!

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hmmm... Good question, but I don't think so. I think they were just made from tobacco!

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

I think the founder named it "Salem Aleikum" - indeed, a version of the Arabic greeting "Peace be upon you" - because the tobacco came from the Ottoman Empire.

There is a tradition of very derogatory depictions of Muslims in the 19th century, but this "demonic" image is different.

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Yes, it does look demonic, doesn't it? I think it might be the Greek god Pan - but either way: What a strange choice to use in adverts for cigarettes, especially ones called "Salem Aleikum"!

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Yes, I think so too! Not sure if I've ever seen a smoking Pan before, though!

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Very good point about "Genuss"! And I agree - it looks like a pan figure to me too. So bizarre!

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

I don't really know - it looks like more of a Pan figure to me. "Salem Aleikum" used Orientalism to advertise their products - architecture, mostly. And I think that they have not usually depicted Muslims in such a negative way... But I am truly not sure what this image represents!

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Even though outside my field of research, I've long been aware of the adverts for "Salem Aleikum" cigarettes, produced in late 19th/early 20th century Dresden. Today I have come across this bizarre image from 1903 of a horned (?), pointy-eared bearded smoking man. I am at a loss - ideas? 🗃️🚬 #History

This image shows a black and white advert. In the middle is the image of a bearded man. It is a close-up of his face. In his right hand, he holds a cigarettes and swirls of smoke can be seen around his face. He has large pointy ears and seems to have horns. The text says, in German: "Oh, this is a treat. No frills. Just quality. Salem Aleikum-Cigarettes".

This image can be found in "Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben", 1903, 2, p. 27.

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

And, speaking of Diana Abbani: She recently wrote an astonishing essay for the @untoldmag.org with the title "A World That Was Never Ours: Three Generations between Jabal Amel and Beirut". 🗃️ A must-read: untoldmag.org/a-world-that...

A World That Was Never Ours: Three Generations between Jabal Amel and Beirut - Untold

As wars erase homes and histories, family memory becomes resistance. From Ottoman Jabal Amel to neoliberal Beirut, this is a story of forgotten villages, exploited labor, silent women, and leftist dre...

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Aug 11

I spoke with the wonderful Diana Abbani about my book "The Hour of Absinthe", published as part of the #MECAM blog series on TRAFO (the Blog for Transregional Research): trafo.hypotheses.org/60708

Do have a look! 🗃️🍸 #DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #HistoryOfAlcohol #Colonialism #ColonialHistory #Maghreb

The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink – A Conversation with Nina Studer

Diana Abbani in Conversation with Nina Studer. In her book "The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink”, Studer explores the history of absinthe through the lenses of cu...

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Jul 16

Do have a look! wetdreams.hypotheses.org/3576

🗃️ #histmed #histsex #HistoryOfSexuality

Les traitements contre « pollutions nocturnes » : Le cas d’un patient inquiet

Lors des « paniques de spermatorrhée » du milieu du 19ème siècle, les causes et les traitements proposés pour lutter contre les émissions nocturnes étaient variés, une notion que l’on retrouve souvent...

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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Jul 16

In preparation of an exhibition on 19th-century machines & treatments against wet dreams that we - @wetdreams-hist.bsky.social - are organising in October 2025 in Geneva, I have written - in French - a summary of one of François Lallemand's most interesting case studies for our blog! 🗃️ #histmed

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jun 15

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

NPR @npr.org · Jun 14

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves

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