Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease

📢 New on First View!

Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.

#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade

Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

CFA: Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Historia de América Latina

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160015

Köln, 21.01.2026-31.03.2026, Universität Köln, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de América Latina

Interested in the politics of #remembering in the #Caribbean?

Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

@dependencybonn.de

Zum Start ins neue Jahr gibt es einen neuen Beitrag in unserem FEVER-Blog! Unsere PI Stefanie Gänger schreibt über die Klassifizierung von Fiebererkrankungen und deren "Unordnung" in der Sattelzeit.
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...

#CfA : 1 Akademische:r Mitarb. (PostDoc) (w/m/d) "Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit" @uniheidelberg.bsky.social auf 4 Jahre. Mitarbeit in der Fachstudienberatung, Verwaltung des Deutsch-Französischen Masters & Ph.D.-Tracks @ehess.fr #DFH #FrüheNeuzeit

Frist: 5. Januar 2026

Join us for some FEVER at Deutsches Museum in Munich if you happen to be in the area! www.deutsches-museum.de/assets/Forsc...

📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:

This FEVER historian spent the last few days deep in the beautiful archives of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, in the footsteps of the many doctors who came here in the 1700s to learn about fevers.

The Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History is hosting a masterclass for (post-) doctoral researchers with Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) on global cultural history, set to take place 22-23 Jan 2026. Spread the word! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

#WeekendListening sorted! 🎧

Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
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📖 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-...

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!

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

@feverprojecthd.bsky.social

🩺 eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic...

YouTube video by Africana-ENS [#9 PORTRAITS DE CHERCHEUR.SE.S] - Teresa GÖLTL

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...

🎤 youtu.be/s33HUEE4C4E?...

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.

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!).

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!).

We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Heidelberg next week and hearing your talk, dear Alex!
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.

Transpacific Lecture Series - Crossroads Research

Wherever you are in the world, if you want to hear the latest about the ‘Age of Fevers’, 1760-1830, join us online tomorrow, June 27, 14:00 (CET), when Stefanie Gänger will be speaking in the TRANSPACIFIC lecture series, hosted by a fellow ERC project. crossroads-research.net/projects/erc...

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/...

UZH: Assistant History of Medicine The History of Medicine Group within the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich, led by Professor Flurin Condrau, seek...

🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay)
#histmed #histstm

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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/...

Alles andere als Leere gestern bei Achim Landwehrs brilliantem Vortrag über "Lücken, Löcher, leere Stellen" in der (Vor-) Moderne am Historischen Seminar in Heidelberg!

Morgen, am 04. Juni, wird Achim Landwehr @achland.bsky.social zu "Lücken, Löcher, leere Stellen. Zur historischen Bedeutung des Weltmangels" vortragen. Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 16:15 Uhr im Hörsaal des Historischen Seminars. Join us!

Global History Colloquium: Stefanie Gänger (Universität Heidelberg) on “'The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases': Global Histories of Fever, 1770–1830

If you happen to be in Berlin, join us this afternoon at 4pm in the global history colloquium convened by Sebastian Conrad, @mgoebel.bsky.social, and Isabella Löhr to hear our very own Stefanie Gänger explain the "Age of Fevers", 1770-1830.
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...

JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social

Join us today (online or in person, if you happen to be in Heidelberg) at 4:15 CEST! Zoom-link request: modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

We are looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Jürgen Osterhammel and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de to request link.

Brought some FEVER to the table during the “Science, History and Globalization" Spring School in Maó, at the beautiful Institut Menorquí d'Estudis. Many thanks to the organisers - Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto Galán, Beatrice Falcucci & Daniele Cozzoli - for bringing everyone together!

It was a real pleasure to explore the past and present of fever(s) together with my colleague Ulrich Schwarz from Biophysics yesterday! Thanks to the organisers from InterdisciPlenary Heidelberg for making this event happen!