Christos Lynteris
@visualplague.bsky.social
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Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) | Global War Against the Rat project, zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies & visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
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Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
visualplague.bsky.social
So much looking forward to reading this!
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amethno.bsky.social
📢📢📢New Forum Alert! 📢📢📢
Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China
A netnography

By Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, and Naiyu Jiang

Find it here (Open Access) via Early View:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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csmbr-pisa.bsky.social
Forthcoming with the

CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

#CSMBR #AstroMedicine #MedicalHisotry #OnlineLecture
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eui-history.bsky.social
1848 in the rear-view mirror

On 3 November at 17.00 CET, join a lecture with Christopher Clark on how the 1848–1849 revolutions reveal history’s non-linear ties to today’s political and social challenges 👉 loom.ly/_7YP-fo

📣 #historysky #skystorians
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Coming up next week! An international colloquium honoring the 50th anniversary of Jean-Noël Biraben's monumental Les hommes et la peste. I'll be speaking on "Taking 'Prodrome' Seriously: A Decade of Rethinking Black Death Narratives in the Age of Evolutionary Genetics." doi.org/10.17613/9vc...

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Taking "Prodrome" Seriously: A Decade of Rethinking Black Death Narratives in the Age of Evolutionary Genetics
This is the abstract of a paper to be presented at the international colloquium, Les Hommes et la peste: 50 ans plus tard, que sait-on? Hommage à Jean-Noël Biraben ["Humankind and the Plague: Fifty Ye...
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ctimmermann.bsky.social
Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.
manchesterup.bsky.social
This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39
BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press
BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.
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mickaelwilmart.bsky.social
Avec Raphaël Morera (@crh.ehess.fr), nous lançons cette année un nouveau séminaire, à l'@ehess.fr, intitulé "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes", pensé comme un espace de discussion autour de l'environnement avant l'Anthropocène.
Et en voici le programme ! 1/3
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crh.ehess.fr
📌Parution n° 📕 revue Terrain. Anthropologie & Sciences humaines, 83 📍Animal-Culte📍
✍️Pierre-Olivier Dittmar @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr #AHLoMA @po-dittmar.bsky.social et Vanessa Manceron @uparisnanterre.bsky.social @lesc-anthropologie.bsky.social (dir.)
▶️ bit.ly/4q1MbBA
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
A @sciam.bsky.social story on the cognitive benefits of hand-annotating books inspired my latest newsletter on maps, monsters, and making sense of Sir Walter Ralegh's "Brief and True History of Guiana" (1596).

🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #manuscript #maps #cartography

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Walter Ralegh's headless monsters and annotation as thinking
On writing and picturing as forms of thinking and knowledge-making, with examples of Renaissance mapmakers and publishers demonstrating exactly this in the...
buttondown.com
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histphilosophy.bsky.social
Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.

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Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy
"Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.
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cattlefrontiers.bsky.social
We are very happy to announce our new online lecture series 'Livestock Histories: Regional and Global Perspectives'. The first lecture will be next week, where Steven Van Wolputte will be talking about cattle, microbes and veterinarians as entangled life forms in the history of Northern Namibia.
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museodelamemoria.bsky.social
Día de la música chilena🎵

La música jugaría un rol crucial en la resistencia cultural contra la dictadura. Durante los años ‘80, que surgirían en Chile expresiones musicales empujadas por jóvenes que no conocían otro sistema político y social más que la dictadura.

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amethno.bsky.social
📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Hannah Brown reviews // “In the time of Ebola: Youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone” // By Jonah Lipton, Cornell University Press, 2024

Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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crh.ehess.fr
#Les amis du @museecluny.bsky.social
Le Prix de la Dame à la Licorne 2025 est attribué à Le Beatus de Saint-Sever, dirigé par Charlotte Denoël (BnF / Citadelles & Mazenod).
Un ouvrage de référence qui allie intelligence du texte et finesse de l’iconographie.
#PrixLittéraire #MoyenÂge #MuséeDeCluny
visualplague.bsky.social
Top priority reading for October, Carlo Ginzburg's book on Marc Bloch, and Georges Didi-Huberman Les Anges de l'Histoire - both just published this month