@visualplague
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Forthcoming with the
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
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We are delighted to invite you to take part in The Work of Mending workshops with @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social at The Royal College of Surgeons of England!
This series of creative workshops explores the meaning of hands and handwork, past and present.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-work-...
J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la sortie de mon livre Prisonnières politiques en Espagne, fin et sortie de dictature, chez CNRS éditions !
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“…in fields most explicitly associated with the production of critical thought – what is collectively referred to as the “humanities” – most scholars see AI as a unique threat, one that extends far beyond cheating on homework and casts doubt on the future of higher education itself…”
We're so excited to have this out in the world! And so grateful to the contributors, peer reviewers, endorsers, and staff at @rutgersupress.bsky.social for helping it come into being! May it work its way onto many syllabuses and bookshelves...
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
At Decolonising Plant Knowledge's upcoming event on Wednesday 11 March, discover how paying attention to the intertwining agency of Amazonian plants allows us to refocus their relationships with humans.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4b7Wn4S
The intricacies of modern compensation procedures that value human life, injury, and property are often overlooked, despite growing demands for reparations and justice following state violence. This article historicizes the legal structures of modern compensation, arguing that the advent of imperial rule was characterized not only by the extraction of material resources and labour, but also by the discriminatory construction and implementation of imperial law, which sought to protect European life, wealth, and property. By focusing on one of the most notorious episodes of violence in British imperial and modern South Asian history – the atrocities committed by British officials in Punjab (1919), including the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre – this article underscores how British officials penalized protests and freedom struggles by legalizing indemnities, taxes, and fines to compensate European families. In contrast, colonial officials grossly undervalued the claims and payments of Indian subjects killed or maimed during state violence, if they did at all. Furthermore, this article reveals how imperial state compensation, managed in relative privacy and buried in legal proceduralism, was rooted in legal structures of intersectional racialized inequality, and political concerns that valued the longevity of imperialism, rather than a meaningful gesture of justice and redress.
📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon
(@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922'
👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
couverture du livre Marc Bloch l'histoire en résistance (Seuil) 4e de couv Esprit brillant, rénovateur de la science historique, fondateur, avec Lucien Febvre de la revue des Annales d’histoire économique et sociale (1929), fervent républicain d’origine juive alsacienne, athée et patriote, combattant des deux guerres mondiales, résistant, Marc Bloch est une figure majeure de l’intellectuel engagé, jusqu’au sacrifice de sa vie puisqu’il est brutalement assassiné par les nazis en 1944. Son entrée au Panthéon, le 23 juin 2026, offre l’occasion de montrer l’inextricable alliance savante, politique et morale qu’incarnent son parcours, ses travaux et sa vie posthume. Car l’histoire, en tant qu’approche intellectuelle, matière à réflexion personnelle et source d’engagement collectif, fut pour lui, sa vie durant, une forme de résistance. Son héritage qu’analyse la génération actuelle des historiennes et historiens, et auquel elle rend hommage dans cet ouvrage collectif, nous rappelle plus largement que l’exigence de la vérité et le partage du savoir sont des combats essentiels et d’une impérieuse actualité.
Un livre collectif sur Marc Bloch, codirigé par Yann Potin et Florian Mazel. Fier et heureux d'y cosigner une petite contribution sur son rapport aux revues. Parution le 27 mars.
VOIX AUX CHAPITRES AUTOUR DE MARC BLOCH ET DE SON OUVRAGE Les rois thaumaturges Avec : Etienne Anheim, Directeur d'études de l'EHESS (CRH) Caterina Guenzi, Maîtresse de conférences de l'EHESS (Cesah) Jérôme Sackur, Directeur d'études de l'EHESS (LSCP) Jeudi 12 mars à 17h30, Grand Hall de l'EHESS
#Événement 📆
👑 L'ouvrage fondateur de l'anthropologie historique commenté par un historien, une anthropologue et un psychologue.
Trois chercheurs de l'EHESS échangeront autour des “Rois thaumaturges” de Marc Bloch :
👉 Etienne Anheim
👉 Caterina Guenzi
👉 Jérôme Sackur
"Forme et croissance" de D'Arcy Thompson : le vivant, mode d'emploi @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
Peter E. Gordon, Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver - @yalepress.bsky.social, April 2026
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Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.
Cover of book COVID Studies: A Reader. Blue with image of knitted globes in shape of a COVID molecule
Coming in July:
COVID Studies: A Reader.
Includes an article I co-authored with Hyeonbin Park on animals & care in a pandemic.
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Kevin Wolf reviews Toussaint Louverture by CLR James; adapted by Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee, out from @versobooks.bsky.social!
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How did the COVID-19 pandemic lay bare and also exacerbate tremendous changes in labor around the world? Check out our new series rethinking work: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
António Lobo Antunes was one of the great European novelists of his generation. His The Land at the End of the World, based on his own experience in Portugal's colonial war in Angola, is a masterpiece of anticolonial literature
As is characteristic of his generocity to colleagues & students, Guenter "requested this retrospective of his life be published after his passing in gratitude for all the people who influenced his life and assisted him in his academic career" www.gbrisse.com/blog
My review of @brad.bolman.com 's 'Lab Dog' has just been published with Social History of Medicine. This is a truly excellent book that will be of great interest to historians of animals, lab sciences, and beyond. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...
"The number of measles cases in London continues to rise with growing concerns that it is further spreading into other regions."
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Very sad to hear of the death of Guenter Risse, whose historical studies on plague and other diseases in San Francisco were such an inspiration for a generation of researchers. Both Visual Plague and Global War Against the Rat projects owe a lot to his generous support mhb.wisc.edu/2026/02/25/i...
Delighted to be starting my new Wellcome Trust funded project today, which has now been moved to University of Liverpool. A reminder that I will soon be advertising two postdocs on conservation and animal health and conservation and earth systems' health. The posts will likely start late this year.
Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.
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Cover of The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo. The cover photograph depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half. The title appears in all-caps centered green text in the top third of the cover, and the subtitle in a black italicized font immediately below. The author's name appears on white text on top of the canes.
In "The Business of Racism," Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/9dd4fNe
Reminder 📢
Join us in about an hour for Hyemin Lee's Harvard S&T in Asia talk on multispecies governance in Korean ginseng farming!
Zoom registration: seow.scholar.harvard.edu/STinAsia
Looking forward to reading L'empire de la supervision:
Capture des savoirs et gouvernement colonial dans l'Inde britannique, by Gildas Salmon @edladecouverte.bsky.social www.editionsladecouverte.fr/l_empire_de_...
“The US government has amplified anti-vaccine rhetoric and signaled that it does not consider measles to be a priority, which could have global ramifications”
@whatsitlike.me
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"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for U.S. health and science while he remains at the helm."
www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...
