Christos Lynteris

New open access book!

Case Studies in Global Health: Illuminating Theory and Practice

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Mort de Jacques Revel, théoricien de la micro-histoire Spécialiste de l’histoire sociale et culturelle européenne, le chercheur français qui a notamment dirigé l’EHESS s’est éteint jeudi à 83 ans.

Jacques Revel a notamment contribué à populariser le concept de «jeux d’échelle», une théorie selon laquelle un historien doit diversifier les niveaux d’observation afin de mieux saisir les sociétés du passé.

Mort de Jacques Revel, ancien président de l’EHESS et figure majeure de l’historiographie française L’historien, qui a notamment travaillé sur la société d’Ancien Régime, a contribué à promouvoir la microhistoire, pour mieux approcher les réalités passées. Il s’est éteint jeudi 12 mars, à l’âge de 8...

Sur Jacques Revel, grand passeur de la microstoria, qui vient de décéder

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The Word for World is Forest: Imagining trees through art and climate fiction - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Cambridge Festival 💥
The Word for World is Forest: Imagining trees through art and climate fiction

19 March 2.30pm
17 Mill Lane CB2 1RX
https://bit.ly/47hXduw

An immersive workshop where art and climate fiction intertwine. Explore connections between creativity, storytelling, and the living world

Excited that this piece on shipworm and animal history is out - it started with lockdown reading of engineering reports when I couldn't get to the archives, taking me down new wormholes connecting Fiji, Australia, Hawai'i and beyond.

Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans Ce théoricien, qui n’hésitait pas à intervenir dans le débat public, fut un des premiers à harmoniser la tradition analytique anglo-saxonne, axée sur la logique et la langue, et la tradition continentale, centrée sur les idées.

Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans

Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania Bureaucrats including agricultural officers, wildlife managers, livestock extension workers and veterinarians are involved in the management of multispecies relations in Tanzania. Tanzania, an Afri...

A brilliant article by Caroline Mburu on Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Audioblog | Les mémoires de Marc Bloch-Episode 1-Marc Bloch et nous Histoire sans frontière, l'atelier radiophonique des étudiants du master Histoire publique de l'université Paris-Est-Créteil Série consacrée aux mémoires de Marc Bloch (1886-1944) Episode 1er, « Marc ...

Premier épisode d'un podcast consacré à March Bloch par les étudiant.e.s du Master et leur enseignant @lucdaireaux.bsky.social que l'on remercie pour son engagement auprès de notre formation.
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COVID Studies – Penn Press A “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplinesCOVID Studies is a “state of t...

Great to see that COVID Studies: A Reader, eds A. Dietrich, S. G. Knowles & R. Ugarte will be published soon, incl a chapter by @monicamedhist.bsky.social @steerewilliams.bsky.social & me on Epidemic Origins and Geographies of Blame in the Time of COVID-19 www.pennpress.org/978151282949...

CFP for a great workshop on the history of plague in the XIX century convened by Hande Yalnızoğlu-Altınay & Utsa Bose

Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...

‘Alison Bashford’s story is, on the one hand, just about a bit of the human body and, on the other, about the changing, contested and consequential practices through which we have sought to know ourselves and others.’

Steven Shapin on a new survey of the hand.

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La revue Enquête (@ehess.fr), revue sœur des @annales.ehess.fr, dont il s'était occupé avec la même passion, avait consacré un beau numéro d'hommage autour de Jacques Revel.

4/5

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(Journée d'étude) Pratiques et usages des archives médicales histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/prat... #histmed

Jacques Revel (1942-2026) : le dernier entretien inédit L’historien Jacques Revel vient de s’éteindre. Ancien directeur des Annales, sa longue carrière épouse les tournants historiographiques les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Nous publions aujourd'hui cet entretien inédit sur sa trajectoire intellectuelle unique.

L’historien Jacques Revel vient de s’éteindre.

Ancien directeur des Annales, sa longue carrière épouse les tournants historiographiques les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle.

Entretien inédit sur une trajectoire intellectuelle unique.

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects. UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving breakthroughs in cancer, dementia and diabetes research. But scientists approved to access Biobank’s sensitive data appear to have sometimes been cavalier about its security. Continue reading...

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online

Very sad to hear of the death of the great historian Jacques Revel. Among many stellar works, Logiques de la foule (1988), which he co-authored with Arlette Farge, remains one of the best microhistories of fear and rumour

DIAGRAMS OF THE VENTRICLES OF THE BRAIN IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMICATE TRADITION - S. Irannejad (Bochum) YouTube video by CSMBR Pisa

We are happy to share the latest recorded lecture

𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄
𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞) 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥
𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Shahrzad Irannejad

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/N8_t9d3BWF8

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #IslamicScience #Brain #diagrams

📅 [À vos agendas !]
Dans le cadre de la Panthéonisation de Marc Bloch, la Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne propose pour la session 2026 des "Nocturnes de l’Histoire" une table-ronde consacrée à "Marc Bloch et ses livres", le mercredi 25 mars à 18 h, dans l’amphithéâtre Bachelard.

The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich Masks are having a moment. This has been a long moment, admittedly, as this object has been a particularly visible cultural touchstone since the early days

Book Review of The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air by @brunostrasser.bsky.social & Thomas Schlich in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc...

A very interesting new article on glanders and war in North America in the 19th century by C. R. Elliott @ Animal History online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

Le CTHS consacre son 150e congrès aux multiples dimensions de l’eau à travers l'histoire. Au programme : table rondes, conférences et interventions. L'événement se tiendra du 18 au 22 mai, au Campus Condorcet à Aubervilliers.
Programme :  https://lnkd.in/eQ2JjNsE 
S'inscrire : https://urls.fr/moW4zB

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Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!

What Walter Benjamin Knew A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

A new biography of Walter Benjamin emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/faPpUP

Biomedical Visions - ICI Berlin Biomedical visualisations can validate patient experiences and perceptions empowering patients and convincing doctors in the search for a diagnosis, treatment, or cure. However, they are often decepti...

"Biomedical technologies increasingly mediate and shape our subjective experience of illness, but biomedical knowledge cannot satisfy our subjective desires for total control of our bodies and their environments"

Book Launch 12.03. Live stream available www.ici-berlin.org/events/biome...

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

🎧 #4 de « Marc Bloch au Panthéon ! » 🏛️
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Merci à @mariekeliesbeth.bsky.social d'avoir repris le micro pour #radiomarcbloch et animé cet épisode: dialogue avec Alexiane et Matis Bloch, arrière-petits-enfants et ayants droit testamentaires de Marc Bloch.

Bonne écoute!

Une page du palimpseste d'Archimède vient d'être retrouvée Encore complet en 1906, le palimpseste d’Archimède a perdu trois feuillets au cours du XXᵉ siècle. L’un d’eux vient d’être retrouvé au musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois. Cette découverte relance l’intérêt...

Encore complet en 1906, le palimpseste d’Archimède a perdu trois feuillets au cours du XXᵉ siècle. L’un d’eux vient d’être retrouvé au musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois. Cette découverte relance l’intérêt pour ce manuscrit exceptionnel qui n’a jamais été étudié de façon exhaustive. 📜