From Healthscaping to Disease Tracing: Plague and Public Health After the Black Death
Virtual seminar organized by the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University for the “Pandemics in the Past: from Prehistory to (almost) the Present” seminar series. Guest speaker: Abigail Agresta […]
The Dynamics of Healthscaping in Pre–Modern Bologna
The third paper of Urban History Summer Seminar series (U.K.) comes from the winners of Urban History’s Dyos Prize for 2020, Dr. Taylor Zaneri and Professor Guy Geltner. This paper […]
Plague and Public Health in the Prague Ghetto
For next Premodern Studies Seminar at Newberry Library, Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook University) will give a talk entitled “Quarantine in the Prague Ghetto: Plague and Public Health between Jews and […]
Approaches to Life and Health in Medieval Cities
The Premodern Healthscaping ERC project will host an online workshop entitled “Approaches to Life and Health in Medieval Cities,” featuring the launch of the Healthscaping WebGIS. Introduction: Launching the Healthscaping […]
Smelling the Plague in Seventeenth-Century England
For the first Historical Perspectives Seminar Series (Scotland), Claire Turner (University of Leeds) will give an online talk entitled “Smelling the Plague in Seventeenth-Century England.” Wednesday 27 October 2021, 17:00–18:00 […]
Plague, Climate, and Migration in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
The next History of Infectious Disease in the Islamicate World webinar (CHSTM) will host Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University) on “Plague, Climate, and Migration: Rural Depopulation in the Early Modern Ottoman […]
Early Modern Forms of Environmental Public Health
For the next Early Modern Network webinar at the University of Edinburgh, Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari Venice) will speak on environmental public health. Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:15–18:30 BST Source: […]
Health and Work in the Early Modern World
The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host a hybrid conference entitled “Health and Work in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750.” Tuesday 20 […]
Practicing Public Health in Early Modern Milan
For next Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health webinar at CHSTM, Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) will present a paper on “Practicing Public Health in Early Modern Milan: […]
The Materiality of Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The next CSMBR webinar (Villa Comel Pisa) will host Marina Inì (University of Cambridge) on “The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered: The Materiality of Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean.” Wednesday […]