The Empire of Fiction: Images and Counter-Images of the Portuguese Dictatorship 11 December 2025, 5.30pm (online) photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-3/

(Call for Papers) Visualities of HIV/AIDS histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/12/les-... #histmed

📷 «Je fais des images sérieuses qui s’efforcent d’être divertissantes» : le Britannique Martin Parr, mort ce samedi 6 décembre à 73 ans, laisse derrière lui un album cinglant des modes de vie panurgiques, des manies grotesques et du mauvais goût kitsch de son espèce. ➡️ bit.ly/4pnqkUa

(New Issue) Reading bodies: Narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/12/raco... #medhum

Des voix recréées, des visages simulés, des conversations prolongées. L’intelligence artificielle s’invite dans nos relations aux morts et bouleverse le geste le plus humain qui soit : apprendre à laisser partir. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/uTv

The latest issue of Anthropologie & Santé has been published. As always, it is available in #openaccess, so feel free to browse the articles covering topics from newborns in Mayotte to mental health in adolescence, bariatric surgery, and more. journals.openedition.org/anthropologi...

So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...

This looks great and is open access. Amelia Acker, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

It took some time, but now my essay «Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‹Photographic›» is finally out in open access, as part of the latest issue of «Photography & Culture» www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(Parution) Absent-es : des existences en creux www.seuil.com/ouvrage/comm...

(Conference) Exploring Ancient Pharmacology. Drugs, Words, and Practices histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/11/la-p... #histpharma #histSTM

(Parution) Encres, traces, papiers. L’art d’écrire à l’Asile de Marsens, 1875–1900 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/11/lart... #histpsych

Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look: "Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Looking forward to convening this symposium on Poison-Healing Boundaries in East Asia @crasshlive.bsky.social this Wednesday, with Marta Hanson, Yan Liu, Elisabeth Hsu and Volker Scheid talking on plants & poisons in Chinese medicine (hybrid registration open) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47798/

(Call for papers) Dengue fever in the global South histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/11/la-d... #histSTM

2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...

Looking forward to reading Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi, by Christina Schwenkel www.ucpress.edu/books/sonic-...

Book Review: Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s ‘Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization’ @ Somatosphere somatosphere.net/book-review-...

Une histoire environnementale de la mer, peut-être l'un des champs le plus oublié et désormais le plus prolifique de l'histoire environnementale ! @champvallon.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social @srivoal.bsky.social

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto. Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃 Wed 19th Nov 17:45–19:00 Online & in-person

This SI places plant and multispecies studies in dialogue with anthropological debates on emplacement, displacement, mobilities and migration. Highly recommend!

😷 Pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, le masque est devenu un objet du quotidien. Mais à l’origine, il est surtout lié au monde du travail, bien plus qu’à celui des épidémies ! 🖊️ Explications 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

📗 New #OpenAccess volume edited by Elizabeth Hughes & Alfred Freeborn: "Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future. 🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ #HistSci #HistArt

Our Digital Archival Photography workshops are back on 17 and 24 November 📷 Join Maciej Pawlikowski, Head of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory @theul.bsky.social, to explore advanced techniques for digitising and preserving archival material. Registration: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/40883/

(Workshop) Rethinking Hospital History: New Perspectives from Medieval Europe histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/11/repe... #histmed

Still recruiting PhD students for our Media Studies Department! Please see link below for more info @joshshepperd.bsky.social @stevenfrost.bsky.social @cumediastudies.bsky.social

There's still over a week left to submit to our next conference, 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'. Deadline: 14th November. Any questions, get in touch with the organisers!

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

CFPs History of Health in the Maghreb The organizers invite submissions for a workshop on the history of public health in the Maghreb region, to be hosted by the University of Maryland. #histmed #medhumanities

“The Imagined Desert: Post-Classical Visions of Egypt ” Shannon McMillan (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) #AllWelcome

"By using the concepts of pest in foregrounding the philosophy behind species segregation, Segregated Species makes a great contribution to agricultural history, animal history, histories of conservation, and histories of knowledge."

Looking forward to this Friday's Departmental Seminar @standrewsanthro.bsky.social with Dr Emanuela Borghi: "The Disease of Time: Unpacking Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Temporality in Survivors of Gender-Based Violence" www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthr...

Élargir les spectres: histoire des violences de masse et photographie #infoclioevent

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year. It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

(Appel à communications) L’objectif des savants. Photographies et fabrique des sciences modernes (XIXe-XXe siècle) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/10/phot... #histSTM

💬 "Les Européens ne réalisent pas qu’ils sont la cause des bouleversements écologiques auxquels ils assistent dans leurs empires. Au contraire, ils blâment les Africains." (@guillaumblanc.bsky.social ) 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

⁉️ Pourquoi les médecins ont-ils eu recours à la photographie dès son invention au XIXᵉ siècle ? 📸 Alice Aigrain vous présente cette photo, accessible sur le portail de notre partenaire SorbonNum+ de @sorbonne-universite.fr 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

And the CFP for our conference is out! I'm particularly excited about the topic this year 🤓 can't wait to see all the proposals! We're a friendly bunch, and there's always a good mix of scholars at all stages from all over the world. Historians, curators, practitioners, all welcome!

#EFAmobility #MobilitéInternationale #appelacandidature Vous êtes chercheur/chercheuse en SHS ou en recherche-création ? Pensez à la résidence de recherche en partenariat @efathenes.bsky.social | Fondation Marc de Montalembert ! 📅 Deadline | 16 novembre 2025 👉 www.efa.gr/mobilite-des...

(New Book) Ruin Ecology www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📣New Issue Alert📣 Volume 38 Issue 3 of Social History of Medicine is now available online! with 12 original research articles (7 of which are #OpenAccess) plus #histmed book reviews

“While very hot regions may see transmission decline, cooler areas such as coastal and northern Australia could become more vulnerable,” writes Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia

Prochain séminaire Anachoniques au MucemLab Séance 1 : 17 octobre 2025. Validisme - Charlotte Puiseux, De chair et de fer. Vivre dans une société validiste (2022). - Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities (2021).