Christos Lynteris
@visualplague.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching and writing on zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies, and visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Very much looking forward to the forthcoming issue of Critique on "Images insupportables" www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critiq...
January 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Very much looking forward to the forthcoming issue of Critique on "Images insupportables" www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/livre-Critiq...
Very interesting documentary on Hugo Pratt's life and work in Argentina, particularly his collaboration and complex relation with Héctor Oesterheld, the creator of El Eternauta who would be later disappeared by Videla's military junta - via TV5 Monde+ www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/documenta...
January 5, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Very interesting documentary on Hugo Pratt's life and work in Argentina, particularly his collaboration and complex relation with Héctor Oesterheld, the creator of El Eternauta who would be later disappeared by Videla's military junta - via TV5 Monde+ www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/documenta...
A very interesting article by David Durval Jesus Vieira on the campaign against capivaras as Surra vectors in Marajó, Brazil: Capivaras em Fuga: Mal de Cadeiras e Biopoder no Pará (1907-1943) www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/ha...
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A very interesting article by David Durval Jesus Vieira on the campaign against capivaras as Surra vectors in Marajó, Brazil: Capivaras em Fuga: Mal de Cadeiras e Biopoder no Pará (1907-1943) www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/ha...
A rare opportunity to watch a film from Madagascar - the critically acclaimed Disco Afrika : une histoire malgache - available (for free) at TV5 Monde+ www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/films/dra...
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A rare opportunity to watch a film from Madagascar - the critically acclaimed Disco Afrika : une histoire malgache - available (for free) at TV5 Monde+ www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/films/dra...
So grateful to having Google’s AI to help with historical research! How else could I find out that after leading the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar, Dr Jean Robic won the 1947 Tour de France! Of course the two are completely different people…
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So grateful to having Google’s AI to help with historical research! How else could I find out that after leading the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar, Dr Jean Robic won the 1947 Tour de France! Of course the two are completely different people…
A very interesting article @culanth.bsky.social by Meghan L. Morris: Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín
December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A very interesting article @culanth.bsky.social by Meghan L. Morris: Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín
Another giant leap for research, courtesy of the AI peddlers www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Another giant leap for research, courtesy of the AI peddlers www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
"The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism" - a book review of the the very interesting Surrealism and Anti-fascism Anthology @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism" - a book review of the the very interesting Surrealism and Anti-fascism Anthology @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
My book review of Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City, edited by Timothy P. Barnard @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
My book review of Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City, edited by Timothy P. Barnard @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
The next event by the Decolonising Plant Knowledge research network @crasshlive.bsky.social will be the film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ with a Q&A with Helen Knowles and talk by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo - next Monday (Dec. 1) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The next event by the Decolonising Plant Knowledge research network @crasshlive.bsky.social will be the film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ with a Q&A with Helen Knowles and talk by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo - next Monday (Dec. 1) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
Looking forward to reading Stephen Verderber's book Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Looking forward to reading Stephen Verderber's book Architecture and Health Equity in an Imperiled World @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...
Some Pieter Bruegel for Martinmas
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Some Pieter Bruegel for Martinmas
For those lucky enough to be in Paris this Monday, Librairie La Compagnie is running an event with Philippe Descola on his new book, Politiques du faire-monde at 19:00 www.seuil.com/ouvrage/poli...
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For those lucky enough to be in Paris this Monday, Librairie La Compagnie is running an event with Philippe Descola on his new book, Politiques du faire-monde at 19:00 www.seuil.com/ouvrage/poli...
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini who was brutally murdered 50 years ago in Ostia by still "unknown others", and the poetry, novels, films, theatre plays and essays he so generously bequeathed us contra "the disappearance of the fireflies"
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini who was brutally murdered 50 years ago in Ostia by still "unknown others", and the poetry, novels, films, theatre plays and essays he so generously bequeathed us contra "the disappearance of the fireflies"
The Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will be running a series of events, 3-14 November, on "Pasolini: Politics & Poetry" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will be running a series of events, 3-14 November, on "Pasolini: Politics & Poetry" www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
A great exhibition opening today at the Cineteca Bologna on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini cinetecadibologna.it/programmazio...
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A great exhibition opening today at the Cineteca Bologna on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini cinetecadibologna.it/programmazio...
Thanks, Stuart! Have only read it in its Greek translation - an excellent one by Dimitris Dimitriadis, known to French-speaking readers from his Je meurs comme un pays (www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...)
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thanks, Stuart! Have only read it in its Greek translation - an excellent one by Dimitris Dimitriadis, known to French-speaking readers from his Je meurs comme un pays (www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...)
Looking forward to the publication of Pablo Gómez's new book Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Looking forward to the publication of Pablo Gómez's new book Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Some great chapters in this new edited volume on approaches to and discourses around plague in the XIV-XVIII centuries - Le Discours sur la peste: Autorités, expériences, expérimentations sous l’Ancien Régime
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Some great chapters in this new edited volume on approaches to and discourses around plague in the XIV-XVIII centuries - Le Discours sur la peste: Autorités, expériences, expérimentations sous l’Ancien Régime
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
classiques-garnier.com/le-discours-...
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Looking forward to the second issue of Les Nouveaux Cahiers Castoriadis, appearing later this month classiques-garnier.com/new/NccMS02
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Looking forward to the second issue of Les Nouveaux Cahiers Castoriadis, appearing later this month classiques-garnier.com/new/NccMS02
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
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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
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
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
This term's event programme by the new Research Network @crasshlive.bsky.social "Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds" is now live with registration opening soon for the opening event on October 15 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/net...
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This term's event programme by the new Research Network @crasshlive.bsky.social "Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds" is now live with registration opening soon for the opening event on October 15 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/net...