Open Access article on water management in medieval Trondheim, Norway, by Elisabeth Forrestad Swensen, Roos M.R. van Oosten, & Axel Christophersen: brill.com/view/journal... #watermanagement #waterhistory #disease #urbaninfrastructure #publichealth #archaeology

Application Deadline approaching for University of Melbourne post-doc opening: "Amplifying the Voices of Disabled Women and Gender Diverse People in Obstetric Care". unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex... #postdoc #disabilitystudies #publichealth @unimelb.bsky.social

Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory

Today and tomorrow: "Protecting Bodies at Work", University of Geneva. Online attendance available (4:30pm start in Australia). Papers discuss occupational hazards; child labour and colonial era work/ worker's bodies; clothing, protective gear, & garlic. #histmed #bodystudies #materiality

“What the Portuguese Inquisitor labelled feitiços (witchcraft or charms) was, for Mónica and her community, simply aduro (medicine) and amammerɛ (custom)." Jessica O'Leary writes about the distortion of #indigenous medical knowledge in colonial Ghana. #histmed theconversation.com/monicas-stor...

Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, invites abstract submissions for an IMC Leeds 2026 panel, "Time to Heal: Temporalities in Care and Cure", to explore the myriad ways in which time and health intermingled. Due 20/9. #histmed #imcleeds #medmed @medica.bsky.social

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is organising a MINESCAPES working group. Convened by @tinasmussen.bsky.social and others. Details, membership, and participation here: www.chstm.org/group/minesc... #mininghistory #envhist #minescapes #extraction

Baylor University is seeking a new Assistant Professor in global Medieval History (tenure-track). Preferably someone whose work engages in the history of science, medicine, & technology. See details here: apply.interfolio.com/169126

Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth (Libby) Burrell, the 2025 recipient of the AHA Philippa Hetherington Prize, for her PhD thesis, "Words for Wellbeing: Charms, Caregiving and Health in England, 1300–1550." The prize is awarded to the best postgraduate thesis in General History (excluding Aus hist).

Recordings of all sessions in our conference last month, "Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives", are now available. See our blog post for more information: premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1479 #unani #histmed #mughal #healthhumanities

Congratulations to Meg Leja for her public history work as well as her #histmed and #medmed scholarship, bringing "light" to the so-called "dark ages" and medieval healthcare as understood in popular culture. One step (or trend-worthy cure...) at a time! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Our latest collaboration with the journal Speculum is out now! #speculumspotlight 💡

More photos of our excavation in Antas Valley, Sardinia, to explore the environmental and material impacts of medieval manual mining: Giovanna Bianchi, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse and Luisa Dallai standing at end of a trench, hard at work watching Sarah Laurent. Preparing the groundwork!

Just published! Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World Images, Objects, and Remains, edited by Lori Jones, covers chapters on premodern health and materiality across the world, from Japan and China, to Portugal and Spain.

Currently underway in Antas Valley, Sardinia: excavations and fieldwork to explore the material and geochemical legacies of manual mining in the 12th-14th centuries. Here: Prof Guy Geltner and A/Prof Giovanna Bianchi carrying equipment for the dig. @monashuniversity.bsky.social #pxrf #archaeology

22 July: “Mercantile Cultures of Health". Massimo Sbarbaro discusses the “deep entanglement between commerce and medicine” between 12th-15th century Italy, as part of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance Online Lecture series. csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

The History of Medicine in SE Asia meeting going well in Yoygakarta, Indonesia. Even getting coverage from UGM and in the press. #histmed #histstm

Is 50 years a long time for a closed mine? This article discusses the continuing selenium pollution associated with a closed coal mine in Canada. Yet our researchers are investigating how pollution from mining can be visible after 500 years. thetyee.ca/News/2025/06... #premodern #mininghistory

CFP: Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

History requires deep, extensive research a lot of that research will end up not being directly relevant. You won't know that until you get in it. Research isn't just pulling a doc with all the answers, it's finding connections, it's understanding what's *not* being said, it's knowing context.

JOB: Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History, Texas State University #envhist jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53213

ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...

On Saturday we concluded our 3-day conference focusing on preindustrial public health in South Asia. It was a fantastic opportunity to explore and propose what we hope will be a worthwhile line of (comparative) research for the subcontinent and beyond. Recordings to come. #preindustrial #histmed

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Days 1 and 2 of our conference in New Delhi off to a great start - good sessions, great people, and incredible food. Which, for the purpose of robust academic exchange, is more important? Hint: there's a reason we've got lots of tea breaks! #histmed #conference #medmed #preindustrial #unani

The Inaugural Session of the International Conference on Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World, with Guy Geltner introducing the methodology of healthscaping, and the field of the #preindustrial public health at large, has now started. 👏 #histmed #publichealth @monashcmrs.bsky.social

Professor Deepak Kumar of #MANUU Maulana Azad National Urdu University, will be presenting as part of the International Conference on Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives tomorrow. Full abstract +zoom details: drive.google.com/file/d/1_MRk...

Join us tomorrow for the Inaugural Lecture of a conference focusing on #preindustrial #publichealth in #Mughal India and the Indo-Islamic world. Guy Geltner will provide a research methodology of #healthscaping. Brochure and registration: projects.https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1471

@monicamedhist.bsky.social discusses the uses of digital libraries, less so in that they might change how we read medieval manuscripts, and more so in that they allow us to (re)construct networks of intellectual influence that produced them. #histmed #digitalhumanities

Registration link is up, and the full brochure and final programme for our hybrid conference "Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives", 12-14 June. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #conference #histmed #mughal #unani #healthscaping

The Sufi Studies Network invites Mahin Wahla, Phd Candidate at Monash University, to speak today Friday at 10am AEST (GMT+10), on "The Islamic Veil and Politics of (Un)Veiling in Memoirs by Political Muslim Women in the US and Australia", followed by a response from Dr Susan Carland + Q&A.

Stay tuned! We are finalising the Conference Programme for "Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives", with a focus on the Indo-Islamic world. To be held 12-14 June, save the dates. #histmed #healthscaping #mughal #publichealth #conference

Join us tomorrow, 12pm-1pm local Melbourne time (GMT+10), to listen to Daryn Lehoux present "Contagion and concepts of disease in ancient medicine" as part of University of Melbourne's History and Philosophy of Science Seminar Series. Zoom link available 👉: www.hpsunimelb.org/seminars

Disability care in medieval Sweden: “Compassion and sustained care for the disabled were not absent in medieval society”. Our group recently discussed the “disability” and “impairment” in disability literature – when does impairment become a #disability (or is disabling) in a society? (1/4) #medmed

We’re recruiting a fixed term (3 years) researcher in clinical exercise science and Long COVID. If you want to join a team that is at the forefront of the pathophysiology/lived experience research then please get in touch. Please share with your network! www.derby.ac.uk/jobs/current...

How to Spot a Medieval Muslim Female Writer or Scholar? Friday 23 May, 10am AEST, Dr Aydogan Kars will give a presentation on a survey of Muslim women’s contributions to medieval learning as writers and scholars, as part of Monash's Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies. DM for link.

19 March in Brussels, 12.30pm: Guy Geltner will give a lunch seminar at the Centre for Urban History at Universiteit Antwerpen: "The Minescapes of Preindustrial Europe: Ecology, Society and Culture". Attendance is in person only www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

Medieval Dye Plants Discovered in Belgium for the First Time www.medievalists.net/2025/03/medi... #archaeology

📢 Save the date & send your proposals! The CfP for our FWF-SCARCE workshop “Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World” (Sept 25–26), organized by @eclaaire.bsky.social & @gbba.bsky.social ⛏️🌍, is open until May 26! 🔗 Info here: bit.ly/scarcews1cfp #MiningHistory #Workshop

Meet the Miners! In May, Giovanna Bianchi and her team - including among others Mauro Buonincontri and Serena Viva - inaugurated an addition to the Rocca San Silvestro museum. It displays the skeleton of a miner; the gallery showcases the early findings of this team of (bio)archaeologists.

Publication Update: a small correction, the article shared last week included a researcher from our project, Guy Geltner, and other fantastic archaeologists and researchers across Australia and Europe, including Nicolas Minvielle Larousse. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New publication by our project's researchers: Guy Geltner, Giovanna Bianchi and others: "A geochemical survey of the Antas Valley, Sardinia: Medieval metallurgy and modern slag recycling?", looks at the legacies of silver mining and #metallurgy processes in Sardinia. @archaeometry.bsky.social

Decolonising Public Health in History: Guy Geltner, Shireen Hamza, and Aydogan Kars discuss their research, why preindustrial history is important for decolonising public health today, and of course, what "1000 years without a bath" was all about... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmZN... #gphw2025

"Public health experts have warned for years that such a shift would open the door to increased dental disease, especially in low-income communities. But the guy who thinks wi-fi causes cancer and 'leaky brain' is apparently unconvinced..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

We are hosting a panel/ roundtable, #Decolonising Public Health in History, 8/9 April, bringing a #premodern historical lens to the discussion of public health today. Please share! Registration: forms.gle/GKtKKzrbr5Jm... Event Info: premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1449 #medhist #gphw2025

Out now! "A Return to Rocca San Silvestro: Community Health, Safety and Resilience in a Medieval Mining Village" by Guy Geltner, Giovanna Bianchi and others, explores the healthscaping of rural miners in the 12th century --> Open Access www.insegnadelgiglio.it/wp-content/u... #histmed #envhist

PhD candidate Rose Byfleet will be presenting at #RSA2025 on frescoes, garden pavilions, the stimulation of good air, and preventative healthcare. #histmed #galenicmedicine #renaissance #premodern #publichealth #arthistory

#Renaissance #earlymodern colleagues going to RSA next month? Sarah Dyer and I are very excited about our panel testaments and women's agency that Sat; business history, material culture, patronage, social networks, diplomatic. #RSA2025 #research #DigitalHumanities

Friday 2 May: "Conceptions of Nature Symposium" at La Trobe University City Campus, Melbourne Australia. Discussing the more-than-human across worldviews, cultures, geographies, and of course, time periods. Places limited! www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2025/03/conc... #envhist #morethanhuman

Thrilled to see this out in @isisjournal.bsky.social! It tells the (timely) story of the #knowledge hierarchies embedded in #mineral exploration by examining the interplay between #books, #experts, and untrained #officials in #Renaissance #Tuscany. More here 👇 shorturl.at/8p7rG