📖 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-...

CfP is out for next year’s #Socare Early-Career-Symposium! Know someone researching the #Caribbean or related regions? Spread the word and share this call! 🌍 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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!

Das 5. Heidelberger Stadtgespräch des FPI zum Thema "Die digitale Darstellung von Stadtgeschichte" findet dieses Jahr in Kooperation mit den Staatlichen Schlössern und Gärten Baden-Württemberg am 24.09.2025 auf Schloss #Heidelberg statt.

Am 11./12. September 2025 findet unsere Tagung "Stenographie und karolingische Schriftkultur" in Lorsch statt. Es geht u.a. um jüngste Forschung zu tironischen Noten und neue Erschließungsmethoden. Mehr Infos & Tagungsprogramm: heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/f/514068c807... #medievallatin #palaeography

If you want to know how an elephant from the Zoological Garden in Cologne ended up as a skeleton in the zoological collection of the University of Heidelberg check out the second blog entry on the history of the collections of the university of Heidelberg: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/from-capt...

During the semester we delved into the history of the university's collections with our undergraduate students. The result are some exciting blog posts. You can check out the first one here: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/colonial-...

Find of the day: Turns out #Foucault was also into Pinel's fever classification! @feverprojecthd.bsky.social 🩺 eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic...

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?...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Just wrapped up the semester with a brilliant talk by Andrés Bustamante (University of Oxford) on archaeology, the mexican state and sovereignty over the subsoil in the 20th century. A wonderful close to this summer's modern history colloquium!

1/5 Our latest monthly highlight! Stefanie Gänger (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) reflects on the various questions grappled with in her work since her "Towards a History of Knowledge for Spanish America", a review article of Nicola Miller's "Republics of Knowledge". Here is what she had to say:

It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

🚨 The CfP is out for 'Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000'. Deadline for submissions is 10th August. Please share with your PhD students and ECRs in history and law! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Researchers! Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications. Deadline is July 31. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, H. Glenn Penny (UCLA) will give a lecture at the lecture hall of the Department of History in Heidelberg, titled “Quotidian Interconnections: The Implications of Globalizing German-Chilean Microhistories, 1920s–1940s.” The talk will take place from 4:15 to 5:45 PM.

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.

Today is the day! #Fever

Here we go - starting to sketch out an exciting new paper for next week’s conference in Heidelberg on the history of fevers! Figuring out what fevers had to do with ideas about habit, the nervous system, and the emergence of evolutionary theory! @feverprojecthd.bsky.social

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!).

Dear #Skystorians, as Book Review Editor @journalslavery.bsky.social, I'm always looking for colleagues who'd like to write #reviews that deal with #slavery in the broadest sense. Non-English books are very welcome & so are junior scholars! Interested? Get in touch: brill.com/view/journal...

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/...

We're looking for candidates to apply for a three-year postdoc! @marrv.bsky.social @tamboduc.bsky.social @upna.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/postdo...

What a great conference it was at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! Many thanks to @hsmurphy.bsky.social and her team for the kind invitation and the opportunity to present parts of my PhD project in front of so many experts in the history of #medicine, #race and #slavery

Can hardly believe it is GO TIME for our Very Big, Truly Exciting, capstone project conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World. Looking forward to day one.... 🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed

Excited to share a call by Rasmus Christensen, who is organizing a graduate seminar on #Caribbean history (1600-1850) at the University of #Copenhagen. A great opportunity, don’t miss it! @inthesamesea.bsky.social

#Colloque : une journée d'études sur le thème "Le fonds Grégoire à la lumière de l'étude des réseaux abolitionnistes transnationaux (1789-1831)" est organisée à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (BnF) le 16 juin 2025. Présentation et programme en ligne.

The launch of #Rethinking #Global #History by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel is less than a month away! 👀 Already curious? You can find the Open Access edition here: cambridge.org/rethinking-global-history

Herzliche Einladung zum interdisziplinären Vortrag zum "Phänomen Fieber: Es braucht mehr als Medizin" von our very own Stefanie Gänger gemeinsam mit @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social (Physik) am Montag, den 28.April um 19:15 Uhr im Hörsaal 14 der NeuenUniversität @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns!

Spring has arrived at the #NationalArchives in Pierre-fitte and while exploring the collections, I came across some intriguing medical ads from #Martinique, offering yet another glimpse into #healing practices in the French #Caribbean. @feverprojecthd.bsky.social

Delighted to announce the program of our Global History Colloquium @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, which I co-convene with Isabella Löhr and Sebastian Conrad this summer. All welcome.

Apply now for the Master in Global History at Heidelberg University! Applications accepted until 31 March 2025

Paul E. #Lovejoy #Prize 2025: JGS accepts submissions for monographs on any theme related to #global #slavery published in 2024. The deadline is March 14, 2025. JGS has just joined Bluesky, so please share widely! Thank you! For more info, contact the editor or see brill.com/view/journal...

Unsere Doktorandin @jennysure.bsky.social hat im vergangenen November an der Stuttgarter Tagung "Medizin Digital: Methoden, Potentiale und Grenzen digitalen Forschens" teilgenommen und dazu den Tagungsbericht verfasst, hier zum Nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...

Hallo Bluesky! The Journal of Global Slavery is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to advance and promote a greater understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives. Happy to join the conversation here! brill.com/view/journal...

Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

Most #archives of the French #Caribbean colonies are stored at the ANOM, but records on the health of enslaved people are rare. Today, I came across a 'journal d'hôpital' from a so-called plantation hospital in 1789, difficult but important material to study with @feverprojecthd.bsky.social.

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Back in Paris, looking into how people in slavery and plantation managers in the French Caribbean dealt with diseases like #fevers, before heading to the Archives in Aix. Any recommendations? #History #Slavery #CaribbeanStudies 📚 @feverprojecthd.bsky.social

Here's Heidelberg enjoying Daniel Margocsy's brilliant talk on the authorship of the Hortus Malabaricus... And on fevers, of course!

Connaissez-vous l'histoire de la présence française en Inde ? À partir de 1701, Pondichéry devient le chef-lieu des établissements de commerce français et la ville connaît un important développement. Par Julie Marquet 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow! #Feverlecture

May 5-8, #Berlin Great opportunity for people aged 8-27 to explore the global impact of #WorldWarII. Discussions & #workshops to consider different timelines, lesser-known stories, & how the war’s legacy continues to influence our societies & politics. #skystorians tinyurl.com/2tkrv93u

Looking forward to May already! If you're also researching the intersections of #medicine, #slavery, and #race in the Atlantic world, this could be of interest to you 📖

The Philosophy and Medicine Project at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social welcomes abstracts for the 2025 Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable - deadline 1st of February! ✍️ 🎓 www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...

Le 1er janvier 1804, il y a 221 ans aujourd’hui, Haïti se déclare indépendante. Pour la première fois, la population dominée d’une colonie triomphe de la puissance qui l’a réduite en esclavage. C’est le début officiel de la décolonisation. 1/3

"Around Christmas of 1810, a young boy, an adolescent of 14 or 15 years of age, whose name we will never know, is “picked up” in Fort Royal, Martinique, ...“in a dying condition.”" Happy to have contributed a story to the "Freedom Seekers" website. freedom-seekers.org/story/name-u...

ITSS🌊 affiliate Lucas Marin has written a great French-language blog post about long-distance #sailors in #Martinique at the end of the Ancien Régime! Read it here 👀⛵️ inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/lexprie...

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

Check out this piece from "News from Brown" about the JCB's Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities. Full details about all JCB opportunities here> jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...