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Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social · 19d

📖 In a new post on our FEVER-blog, our very own Lea-Marie Trigilia takes a look at the tensions between learned medicine and medical charlatanism during the petechial fever epidemics that affected Italy in the early 19th century. Happy reading! www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/the-most-...

“The most harmful popular misconceptions”: Petechial Fever and Charlatanry in nineteenth-century Italy - Department of History

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Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social · Sep 8

CfP is out for next year’s #Socare Early-Career-Symposium!

Know someone researching the #Caribbean or related regions? Spread the word and share this call! 🌍

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Fractured Connections in the Caribbean

Considering the Caribbean’s multifaceted history and its ongoing tensions and complexities, the planned symposium focuses on the exploration and critical reflection of three modes of relationality: co...

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Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's time to look back on our FEVER conference which took place in early July at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences! To learn more about the tropics discussed, take a look at the conference proceedings at our FEVER-blog: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/workshop-... Huge thanks to everyone that joined!

Workshop Proceedings: Fever. Histories of (a) Disease, 1750-1840 - Department of History

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · Aug 14

Das 5. Heidelberger Stadtgespräch des FPI zum Thema "Die digitale Darstellung von Stadtgeschichte" findet dieses Jahr in Kooperation mit den Staatlichen Schlössern und Gärten Baden-Württemberg am 24.09.2025 auf Schloss #Heidelberg statt.

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Jule Meyer @julemeyer.bsky.social · Jul 4

Am 11./12. September 2025 findet unsere Tagung "Stenographie und karolingische Schriftkultur" in Lorsch statt. Es geht u.a. um jüngste Forschung zu tironischen Noten und neue Erschließungsmethoden. Mehr Infos & Tagungsprogramm:
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#medievallatin #palaeography

Tironische Note als Initiale. Paris, BnF, lat. 190, fol. 15v. Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1. Hälfte 9. Jh.

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modernhisthd.bsky.social @modernhisthd.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you want to know how an elephant from the Zoological Garden in Cologne ended up as a skeleton in the zoological collection of the University of Heidelberg check out the second blog entry on the history of the collections of the university of Heidelberg: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/from-capt...

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modernhisthd.bsky.social @modernhisthd.bsky.social · Aug 4

During the semester we delved into the history of the university's collections with our undergraduate students. The result are some exciting blog posts. You can check out the first one here:
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/colonial-...

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Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social · Aug 8

Find of the day: Turns out #Foucault was also into Pinel's fever classification!

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Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social · Aug 3

Our team member @teresagoeltl.bsky.social recently spoke about her academic journey. Recorded by #Africana, a platform hosted by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, dedicated to showcasing research on Africa and its global connections: africanaens.com/portraits-de...

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[#9 PORTRAITS DE CHERCHEUR.SE.S] - Teresa GÖLTL

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Jul 28

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS

Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

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modernhisthd.bsky.social @modernhisthd.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just wrapped up the semester with a brilliant talk by Andrés Bustamante (University of Oxford) on archaeology, the mexican state and sovereignty over the subsoil in the 20th century. A wonderful close to this summer's modern history colloquium!

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Jul 16

1/5 Our latest monthly highlight! Stefanie Gänger (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) reflects on the various questions grappled with in her work since her "Towards a History of Knowledge for Spanish America", a review article of Nicola Miller's "Republics of Knowledge". Here is what she had to say:

A quote from the author; this is quoted in full below in the thread

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Christian Stenz @chriiisz.bsky.social · Jul 18

It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

Rezension zu: B. C. Schär u.a. (Hrsg.): Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe

Rezension zu / Review of: Schär, Bernhard C.; Toivanen, Mikko: Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950

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Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 The CfP is out for 'Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000'. Deadline for submissions is 10th August. Please share with your PhD students and ECRs in history and law! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Call for applications - Junior colloquium

Colloque junior, CHSP, Sciences Po Paris, 27-28 November 2025Abstracts submission deadline: 10 August 2025Contact: [email protected] by Sciences Po School of Research and the Cent...

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · Jul 14

Researchers!

Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications.

Deadline is July 31.

beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

Fellowships

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modernhisthd.bsky.social @modernhisthd.bsky.social · Jul 14

On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, H. Glenn Penny (UCLA) will give a lecture at the lecture hall of the Department of History in Heidelberg, titled “Quotidian Interconnections: The Implications of Globalizing German-Chilean Microhistories, 1920s–1940s.” The talk will take place from 4:15 to 5:45 PM.

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Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our FEVER Workshop wrapped up on Friday — what a pleasure and privilege it was! Huge thanks to all who joined us, and especially to our wonderful speakers, including Kevin Siena, @wraggem.bsky.social, Chris Hamlin, Margaret DeLacy, and Ricardo Cabral de Freitas.

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Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social · Jul 10

Merci!

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Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today is the day! #Fever

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Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social · Jul 3

Here we go - starting to sketch out an exciting new paper for next week’s conference in Heidelberg on the history of fevers! Figuring out what fevers had to do with ideas about habit, the nervous system, and the emergence of evolutionary theory! @feverprojecthd.bsky.social

A photo of a notebook with barely legible handwritten notes for a forthcoming conference paper.

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Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social · Jul 4

Ahead of our FEVER-workshop on 10-11 July, we'll be hosting Kevin Siena's talk "The Foetus is made by Contagion: Pathology and the Enlightenment Debate on Human Variety", next Wednesday (July 9) at 16:15CET at the lecture hall of Heidelberg's History Faculty or online via zoom (e-mail us for link!).

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Viola Müller @vfmueller.bsky.social · May 29

Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars!

Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...

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Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social · Jun 16

We are thrilled to inaugurate our FEVER blog with a post by Stefanie Gänger, Lea-Marie Trigilia, and Ricardo Castellón on the prevalence of fever-diagnoses in Guatemala's San Juan Hospital in the 18th century:
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

“…to be Cured of a Fever”: Guatemala, the San Juan Hospital’s Women’s Ward, and a World of Fevers, 1781–5 - Department of History

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Sara Torregrosa @sthetland.bsky.social · May 26

We're looking for candidates to apply for a three-year postdoc!

@marrv.bsky.social @tamboduc.bsky.social @upna.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Researcher Support for Ramón Areces Grant Proposal

The Economic History Unit at the Department of Economics, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), is excited to offer support to a postdoctoral researcher in preparing a grant proposal for the Fundación ...

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