Joyeux temps des fêtes

Le blogue entre dans sa traditionnelle période de vacances hivernales

 

 

Barts Health Archives and Museums (RLHWXP1214-15) c.1952

 

Il sera de retour le lundi 9 janvier 2023 au matin.

 

Bon temps des fêtes à tou.tes !

 

 

12 leçons illustrées sur l'histoire de la psychologie

12 leçons illustrées sur l'histoire de la psychologie
 

Serge Nicolas



Dunod
2022

Composé de 12 leçons illustrées, cet ouvrage traite de l’histoire de la psychologie générale tout en abordant des thèmes liés à l’épistémologie (conditions de fondation d’une science nouvelle, liens entre l’esprit et le corps, frontières entre les sciences, etc.). Il fait également une place importante à l’histoire de la psychologie appliquée et aux différents courants de la psychologie moderne, à travers les grandes figures de la psychologie et à leur orientation intellectuelle.

Changements d'échelle en histoire de la technologie

Interdependencies. From Local Microstories to Global Perspectives on the History of Technology

Call for papers

The ICOHTEC 50th conference

Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia

Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu

14-18 August 2023

The 2023 ICOHTEC annual conference invites scholars to reflect on the complex, mutual relations between technology and the environment, culture, and politics, as well as the ways in which they are entangled at the local, regional, transnational, and global levels. The crises we face today as a consequence of climate change, wars, or the COVID pandemic expose the reality that no institution, company, country, community, or body is independent. They all depend on diverse others within various networks, e.g. production and distribution systems; supply chains, especially of food, energy, materials, and medical products as well as human workers; support and care systems created at the global, national, and interpersonal levels. Within these networks, the solutions developed by unprivileged groups to manage the shortcomings they cope with daily can also be, and in fact are, applied more broadly in the face of the crisis (such as permaculture inspirations in Indigenous people’s methods of water conservation) and for commercial purposes (as evidenced by the long list of solutions invented by or for people with disabilities and then mainstreamed).

By taking up the concept of interdependence, the conference aims to scrutinize the traditional historiographies of technology and to question the narratives they offer about agency, power, and the concept of usually unidirectional paths and impact. We also seek to consider the broader implications of the interrelations of technology with the environment, along with diverse values and beliefs, knowledge and epistemic practices.

We invite scholars working on different aspects of the history of technology, various historic periods, different geographical areas, and welcome researchers working at the intersection of history of technology or philosophy of technology, and other fields, including anthropology, design studies, film and media studies, social sciences, minority and identity studies, to share their perspectives and analyses. We look forward to opening new avenues for exploring the interdependencies between disciplines, paradigms, research methods and theories that relate to technology.

Submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• the local histories of technology/knowledge/practices exchange
• the local adaptations of technological inventions 
• invisible histories of technology
• the minority/disability-driven inventions
• the technologies of the excluded, and the histories of appropriation by the mainstream
• between appropriation and innovation – brands, companies, policies
• the interrelations of politics/environment/culture and technology
• global chains of energy/food/medicine – continuities, disruptions, and temporary/local provisions and hacks
• maintaining technological systems locally and globally
• globalization and changing local labour patterns
• interdependencies and technological entanglements of ecological systems in change
• the changing scales of technological and scientific inventions – from grassroot to corporate
• interdependencies between technologies
• interdependencies between histories and imaginaries
• methodologies for studying local, small, invisible histories of technology, technology appropriation
• decolonizing Western/Northern history of technology

Individual paper proposals must include: (1) the presenter’s name and email address; (2) the title of the paper; (3) an abstract (max. 300 words); (4) the presenter’s bio (max. 250 words).

We strongly support the submission of proposals for pre-constituted panels of 3 or 4 papers. Panel organizers are asked to submit: (1) an abstract of the panel theme (max. 300 words); (2) a list of presenters that includes their names, email address, and paper titles, as well as the name and email address of the session chairperson; (3) abstracts for each paper (max. 300 words); (4) a bio for each contributor and the chairperson (max. 250 words each).

Submit all session and individual paper proposals by 15 January 2023 via the ICOHTEC paper submission system: https://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/tallinn-tartu-2023/call-for-papers/

Please pay close attention to the instructions, particularly to the word limits of the submitted documents.

The programme committee reserves the right to relocate papers to different themes and add papers to panels.

We especially encourage and welcome proposal submissions from graduate students and early career researchers and their participation in the symposium. Limited travel grants will be available.



Programme Committee:

Magdalena Zdrodowska (Poland), chair, magda.zdrodowska@uj.edu.pl

Anna Åberg (Sweden)

Irene Anastasiadou (Netherlands)

Yoel Bergman (Israel)

Yana Boeva (Germany)

Leticia Galluzzi Nunes (Brasil)

Jan Hadlaw (Canada)

Peeter Müürsepp (Estonia)

Marisol Osorio (Colombia)

Maria Rikitianskaia (United Kingdom)

La possession de Barbe Hallay

The Possession of Barbe Hallay. Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada
 

Mairi Cowan



McGill-Queen's University Press
Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada (number 5 in series)
296 Pages, 6 x 9
11 photos
ISBN 9780228014041
October 2022

When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst. They feared that witches and magicians had arrived in the colony, and a teenaged servant named Barbe Hallay started to act as if she were possessed. The community tried to make sense of what was happening, and why. Priests and nuns performed rituals to drive the demons away, while the bishop and the governor argued about how to investigate their suspicions of witchcraft. A local miller named Daniel Vuil, accused of using his knowledge of the dark arts to torment Hallay, was imprisoned and then executed.

Stories of the demonic infestation circulated through the small settlement on the St Lawrence River for several years. In The Possession of Barbe Hallay Mairi Cowan revisits these stories to understand the everyday experiences and deep anxieties of people in New France. Her findings offer insight into beliefs about demonology and witchcraft, the limits of acceptable adolescent behaviour, the dissonance between a Catholic colony in theory and the church’s wavering influence in practice, the contested authority accorded to women as healers, and the insecurities of the colonial project. As the people living through the events knew at the time, and as this study reveals, New France was in a precarious position.

The Possession of Barbe Hallay is both a fascinating account of a case of demonic possession and an accessible introduction to social and religious history in early modern North America.

Histoires de la santé sexuelle à Londres

PhD Studentship: Histories of sexual health in London’s East End

Call for applications

The Institute of Applied Health Research (University of Birmingham) has partnered with the Centre for the History of Medicine (University of Warwick) and Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums to secure a fully funded Midlands4Cities PhD studentship. Using the rich archival collections of the Whitechapel Venereal Disease Clinic, this four-year studentship will be a granular study of sexual-health experiences and outcomes among marginalised and minoritised communities in London’s East End from the interwar years to the beginning of the AIDS crisis.

The deadline for applications is 11 January 2023. The successful candidate will be expected to begin the studentship in October 2023.


The twentieth century witnessed enormous changes in medical knowledge, public attitudes, policymaking and infrastructure for sexual health. But the personal, lived experiences of sexual health, especially among marginalised and minoritised communities in the decades before the AIDS crisis, are largely missing from the archives to which historians have hitherto had access. As such, these personal experiences have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve.

Established in 1929, the Whitechapel VD Clinic was among the most significant sites in the nationwide Venereal Disease Service. Its archives contain approximately 12,000 items and are unique among surviving sexual-health archives in their scope and completeness. Importantly, the collection also reflects the long historical trajectory of medical and social beliefs linking migrants and minoritised populations with the spread of STIs. The bedrock of the student’s archival research will be the Whitechapel Clinic archives. For comparison and context, they will also draw on archives from central government and local authorities across the UK. And they will undertake oral histories with people who accessed or staffed sexual-health services in London’s East End.

The student will be supervised by Dr Anne Hanley (Birmingham), Professor Roberta Bivins (Warwick) and Kate Jarman and Ginny Dawe-Woodings (Barts Health). They will receive a programme of tailored training that addresses the practical and ethical challenges of working with highly sensitive records. In year 4 of the PhD, they will draw on these skills as part of a formal placement (approximately 6 hours a week for 10 weeks) with Barts Health. During this placement, they will consult on the development of a major funding bid that would enable Barts Health to complete the digitisation of the Whitechapel Clinic archives. This collaboration will offer the student new insights into their own research while also helping them to develop grant-capture skills and gain valuable experience of collaborative project planning and development that will support their future career. They will also receive training to collect, transcribe and analyse oral histories. And they will have access to training and resources to support their public-engagement work.

This project is embedded within the medical humanities and committed to using history to respond to today’s health challenges. In the Institute of Applied Health Research they will be supported by Hanley’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Histories of Sexual Health in Britain, 1918–1980, as well as a multidisciplinary community of researchers specialising in sexual and reproductive health. As a member of this research community, the student will build links with staff delivering sexual healthcare through University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. This will complement links that they will also build with staff delivering Barts Health NHS Trust’s sexual-health services. With links to two of England’s largest NHS Trusts, the student will gain an understanding of contemporary sexual-health challenges and priorities, contextualise their work in modern-day provisions and develop policy relevance for their historical research.

Follow this link for more information about the project or contact Dr Anne Hanley (a.hanley@bham.ac.uk).

L'amputation de la Préhistoire à nos jours

La chair et la scie. L'amputation de la Préhistoire à nos jours
 

Sofiane Bouhdiba



L'Harmattan
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 210 pages
Date de publication : 30 novembre 2022
ISBN : 978-2-14-030723-2

Cet ouvrage est centré autour de l'acte chirurgical le plus extrême : l'amputation. L'auteur examine ici l'évolution des techniques et les instruments de l'amputation, ainsi que quelques aspects inédits, tels que l'automutilation ou la mutilation spontanée. L'ouvrage s'intéresse également aux principales raisons pouvant entraîner une amputation. Car, contrairement à ce que l'on croit, l'acte ne relève pas toujours de la thérapeutique. Enfin l'auteur élargit l'angle d'analyse, abordant les questions des mutilations post-mortem, des prothèses, ainsi que de la représentation des individus amputés dans la société. Un ouvrage inédit sur une thématique exceptionnelle. 

Postdoctorat en histoire sociale et culturelle de la psychiatrie

Postdoctoral position in social and cultural history (medical humanities)

Call for applications

The Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and the Centre for Culture and the Mind invite applications for a 24-month post-doctoral researcher position in social and cultural history.

The position is funded by the DNRF Centre of Excellence, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND).

The successful candidate will work closely with the Centre leader Ana Antic, Associate Professors Peter Leese and Lamia Moghnieh. He or she will join a dynamic international and interdisciplinary research team.

Job content
The Centre for Culture and the Mind explores the puzzling relationship between cultural difference and the human psyche from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: historical, anthropological, psychiatric, sociological, literary and psychological. It zooms in on the core questions about the universality or otherwise of the human mind, which remain as difficult to answer today as they were a century ago.

The Centre proposes that the issue of culture-mind relationship lays at the core of many social, political and medical debates: within cross-cultural psychiatry/psychotherapy, in trauma studies, and in migration and refugee studies. It explores how the human mind and common humanity have been imagined in different cultural, sociopolitical and disciplinary contexts, examining the assumptions and forces which shaped such definitions. By analysing how different cross-cultural models of the psyche were formulated and critiqued, the Centre’s interdisciplinary team aims to develop a new framework for understanding cross-cultural interventions, which pushes beyond the binary of universalism and cultural relativism in order to arrive at a more nuanced model of interaction between socio-cultural contexts and ideas of the psyche.

The Centre consists of four interrelated thematic strands: cross-cultural research in human sciences; cross-cultural notions of trauma and resilience; cross-cultural therapeutics and creative mind; and cross-cultural encounters and population movements (migration).

The postdoctoral researcher will be a core member of the Centre’s thematic strand on cross-cultural notions of trauma and resilience. This strand focuses on cultural and psychiatric vocabularies of trauma in a variety of cultural and political contexts. It aims to offer a comparative historical analysis of how concepts of trauma, PTSD, resilience and recovery have been applied and translated outside the Western world, and how universalising psychiatric discourses of trauma interacted with broader cultural narratives of emotional suffering and victimhood.

Qualification requirements
In order to be considered for the position applicants must have research qualifications at least corresponding to what can be achieved as part of a successfully completed PhD within a relevant field.

He or she should hold a PhD degree in the field of history (or medical humanities), with a focus on cross-cultural historical trauma studies, and have in-depth knowledge of different understandings of psychological injury or resilience beyond Western scientific models (as well as relevant language proficiency in accordance with the field of expertise). He or she will conduct primary source research in a select range of archives and libraries, and take part in designing and implementing oral interviews if necessary. Experience with interdisciplinary and collaborative work will be an asset.

The successful candidate is expected to work both independently and in collaboration with the research team. Within the Centre, the candidate will take part in broader intellectual and methodological discussions around the Centre’s goals and general directions, and will also be expected to design and work on an original research project (either in the form of a monograph or a series of articles).

The postdoc position is a full-time research position and does not involve any teaching obligations. The candidate is also expected to take active part in the academic life of the Centre and the department.

For further information, including more details on the Centre for Culture and the Mind, please contact Ana Antic at ana.antic@hum.ku.dk.

For further details about the qualification requirements for postdocs, please refer to the job structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2013: https://ufm.dk/en/legislation/prevailing-laws-and-regulations/education/files/job-structure-for-academic-staff-at-universities-2013.pdf

Application
Submit the application online in Adobe PDF or Word format.

Please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of this page.

The application must be written in English and include the following enclosures: Application letter/cover letter (max 1 page).
Curriculum vitae (with applicant’s e-mail & telephone number).
Documentation of qualifications (examination certificates/PhD diploma, etc.).
Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with *.
Research plan, including a short description of previous research and a plan for the coming years that includes an account of how the applicant will contribute to the deliverables in the project description.
Documentation of teaching qualifications and research dissemination, if any
Publications. Applicants may choose a maximum of three publications for assessment. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and listed from 1 to 3.

Should any material submitted consist of work with named co-authors, or work that is otherwise the result of collective academic endeavours, the extent of the applicant’s contribution to the work must be clearly stipulated. The Faculty may ask for a signed statement from the co-authors stipulating the extent and nature of each individual’s contribution.

Only material in English can be expected to be assessed.

Appointment procedure
After the application deadline, the Head of Department selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the appointment committee. All applicants are notified whether their application has been accepted for assessment. The Dean subsequently appoints an expert assessment committee tasked with carrying out an assessment of the selected applicants for the specific post. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee. Applicants are ultimately offered the opportunity of commenting on the part of the assessment relating to themselves before the appointment is finalized.

Further information about the application procedure is available from HR, e-mail: hrsc@hrsc.ku.dk. Please refer to ID number 211-1277/22-2I #1.

Salary and conditions of employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The salary range starts at DKK 35,700, (EUR 4,700) + a 17,1 % contribution to the pension scheme. It is possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis.

The Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) have further agreed on a protocol that makes it possible for international researchers employed by the University to achieve a pension exemption, whereby the pension contribution will be paid out as salary. For more information about the different pension schemes, please read more here: https://ism.ku.dk/salary-tax-pension/pension/

If you consider applying from abroad, you may find useful information on how it is to work in Denmark and at UCPH here : http://ism.ku.dk, http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/frontpage.htm and https://www.workindenmark.dk/

UCPH wishes to encourage everyone interested in this post to apply, regardless of personal background.

The closing date for applications is 9 January 2023 at 23:59 [CET]

Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered.


Københavns Universitet giver sine knap 10.000 medarbejdere muligheder for at udnytte deres talent fuldt ud i et ambitiøst, uformelt miljø. Vi sikrer traditionsrige og moderne rammer om uddannelser og fri forskning på højt internationalt niveau. Vi søger svar og løsninger på fælles problemer og gør ny viden tilgængelig og nyttig for andre. 

Info
Ansøgningsfrist: 09-01-2023
Ansættelsesdato: 01-04-2023
Afdeling/Sted: Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

Histoires globales du handicap

Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015: Power, Place and People

Esme Cleall (Editor)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (December 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367341213

This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring global locations as disparate as the Caribbean, Kenya, Mauritius, Natal and Poland as well as taking new approaches to Britain and the US.

Global Histories of Disability seeks to address issues including colonialism, disability, the body, forced labour and indigeneity. A further key issue that reoccurs throughout the volume is the specificity of place. With several chapters examining the Global South, such work challenges the implicit tendency to assume that the western experience of disability is a universal one. The volume intends to do more than add new case studies to our knowledge about disability in the modern period, it intends to use the insights gained from examining disparate global sites to think more about the global histories of disability both empirically and theoretically. Issues addressed by different chapters include colonialism, imperialism, disability, deafness, the body, enslavement, labour and indigeneity. Different chapters also use economic, cultural, legal and political frameworks to explore issues of disability across a range of global locations.

This volume is essential for students, scholars and researchers alike interested in world and international history.

Le sommeil au XIXe siècle

Le sommeil au XIXe siècle. Normes et imaginaires du dormir (années 1770-1914)

Soutenance de thèse de Sophie Panziera



J'ai le grand plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse intitulée « Le sommeil au XIXe siècle. Normes et imaginaires du dormir (années 1770-1914)», réalisée sous la direction de Dominique Kalifa puis Laurence Guignard à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Elle se déroulera le samedi 7 janvier 2023 à 14h, en salle 216 du Centre Panthéon, (12 place du Panthéon 75005 Paris). Une visioconférence permettra également de la suivre à distance.


Le jury sera composé de :

Monsieur Alain Cabantous, professeur émérite, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, examinateur

Madame Anne Carol, professeure, Université d'Aix Marseille, examinatrice

Madame Jacqueline Carroy, directrice d'étude honoraire, EHESS, examinatrice

Madame Laurence Guignard, professeure, Université Paris-Est Créteil, directrice de la thèse

Monsieur Hervé Guillemain, professeur, Université du Mans, rapporteur

Madame Stéphanie Sauget, professeure, Université de Tours, rapportrice



La soutenance sera suivie d’un pot au Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle auquel vous êtes très chaleureusement convié·es (Centre Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 3ème étage, salle G014).

Pour vous permettre d'accéder aux centres Panthéon et Sorbonne, et pour des raisons d’organisation, je vous serais très reconnaissante de m’indiquer votre présence (à tout ou partie de la soutenance, et/ou au pot) au plus tard le 31 décembre. Si vous souhaitez assister à distance, je vous remercie également de bien vouloir m’en informer en m’écrivant à l'adresse sophie.panziera@gmail.com, afin de que je puisse vous envoyer les informations de connexion.



Résumé de la thèse

La thèse propose d’analyser les représentations qui conditionnent les rapports au sommeil et aux expériences du « dormir » au xixe siècle. Elle montre qu’à partir de la fin du xviiie siècle, les médecins s'emparent du sommeil comme un objet d'étude à part entière, questionnant la nature et la fonction de cet état physiologique au moment où le sommeil provoqué réinterroge les frontières veille/sommeil. Les innovations techniques permettent dans le même temps de faciliter la vie nocturne, jusqu’à pouvoir la rendre quotidienne. À partir de 1789, la Révolution française érige l’énergie en valeur essentielle du citoyen, se réappropriant et exaltant une culture de la veille politique. S’installe alors un nouveau rapport au temps social, politique et naturel. Le XIXe siècle définit le besoin de sommeil non plus comme un impondérable calqué sur les rythmes cycliques répondant aux lois de la nature, mais dépendant des rythmes propres au corps, relevant de la physiologie individuelle, que les sciences médicales sont chargées de comprendre et déterminer. Puis la norme d’un sommeil de huit heures est réappropriée et revendiquée par une partie du corps social comme un impératif de santé civilisationnel, avant d’être entériné par la législation. L’analyse des discours tenus sur le sommeil entre les années 1770 et 1910 révèle ainsi une dichotomie entre d’un côté les injonctions à la veille citoyenne, politique, artistique, laborieuse, comme un idéal à atteindre pour accéder à la reconnaissance sociale, et de l’autre, la formulation progressive des prescriptions médicales et sociales au bien dormir, les secondes prenant progressivement le pas sur les premières à partir du second xixe siècle, sans que ces dernières ne s’effacent complètement. En ce sens, le tournant du XXe peut ainsi être lu comme un moment de revendication et de conquête d’un temps de sommeil suffisant pour toutes et tous, dans la formulation sociale d’un « droit au sommeil ». S’appuyant sur les discours médicaux, elle aboutit paradoxalement à une nouvelle naturalisation du besoin de dormir.

Summary:

This thesis intends to analyse the discursive representations that influence the relationship to sleep and the experiences of "sleeping" in the 19th century. Starting from the end of the 18th century, doctors take on sleep as an object of study in its own right, questioning the nature and function of this physiological state as induced sleep ponders the boundaries between wakefulness and sleep. Concurrently, technical innovations facilitate nocturnal activities to the point of making them common. From 1789, the French Revolution establishes energy as an essential value of the citizen, reclaiming and exalting a supposed sleepless political elite. A new relationship to social, political and natural time thus sets in. The 19th century no longer defines the need for sleep as synchronised with the cyclical patterns of nature, but dependent on patterns specific to the body, linked to human physiology and which medical sciences are given the tasks to understand and describe. The need for sleep is presented as a civilizational health imperative by workers unions, before being eventually ratified by the legislation of the eight-hour day. The analysis of the speeches held on sleep between 1770 and 1910 reveals a dichotomy between, on the one hand, injunctions to civic, political, artistic, laborious wakefullness, as an ideal to attain social recognition, and on the other hand, the formulation of medical and social prescriptions for good sleep, the latter gradually taking precedence over the former from the second half of 19th century, without the former disappearing completely. In this sense, the turn of the 20th century can thus be read as a moment of claiming and conquering sufficient time for sleep for all, in the social formulation of a “right to sleep”. Based on medical discourses, this concept paradoxically leads to a new naturalisation of the need to sleep.

Pellagre et folie au XIXe siècle

Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity during the Long Nineteenth Century

David Gentilcore & Egidio Priani

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2023 edition (December 25, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031224959



This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer’s point of view. Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet and disease meet, the book contributes to the history of medicine and science, the history of psychiatry, economic and social history, agrarian history, and food and nutrition history. Additionally, the authors aim to transnationalise Italian history by making comparisons with related issues, such as tertiary syphilis in the UK. Drawing from a wide range of printed and archival sources, including the writings of Italian medical investigators, the book examines how medical and scientific research was carried out during the long nineteenth century and the uncertainties that this engendered, in terms of classification, explanation, diagnosis and treatment. Offering a unique perspective on an endemic illness which came to be known as the disease of the four ds: dermatitis; diarrhea; dementia; and death, this book provides an engaging account of one of the most perplexing causes of mental illness.

Le choléra dans l'océan Indien depuis le XIXe siècle

Cholera in the Indian Ocean World since the Nineteenth Century

Call for Papers




Workshop on May 24, 2023

Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Organizers: Dr Eva-Maria Knoll, Medical anthropologist and Senior Researcher at ISA &

Dr Vivek Neelakantan, Medical historian, 2023 Brocher Foundation Fellow & ISA Guest Researcher



Keynote: Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University



Cholera—first described in the Ganges delta in 1817—spread globally in seven pandemics during the past two centuries. Most recently, some 30 countries worldwide reported cholera outbreaks in 2022 and a Lancet report from October 2022 revealed an alarming shortage of cholera vaccines that resulted in a shift from a two to a less lasting one-dose vaccination strategy. In fact, the 7th pandemic of cholera—which first was identified in the medical station of El Tor among pilgrims returning from Mecca in the early 20th century—is ongoing. A discussion of the scarcity in vaccines, however, was largely limited to relevant health channels and only some outbreak hotspots (such as Haiti in 2010) made it into the international media and gained scholarly attention beyond the medical and aid fields.



Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Left untreated it might kill a person within hours. Despite the availability of a prophylactic Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) since 1985, cholera still is a life-threatening disease for the disadvantaged and the poor, rarely noticed in affluent parts of the world. Main factors that are congenial to the spread of cholera still include stressed water supplies, insanitary housing and the effects of environmental disasters. These include in particular earthquakes, weather extremes and certain hydrological events that are increasingly associated with climate-change such as floods. Other potentially causal factors are related to armed conflict, underreporting of data on national and local levels, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and insufficiently resourced national health systems.



We take this alarming situation as an occasion to discuss the V. cholerae El Tor strain in both its historic dimensions and as a pressing public health issue along two main methodological pathways. Firstly, by tracing the historical events of cholera in the littorals and interconnected hinterlands of the Indian Ocean, known as the Indian Ocean World (IOW). The factors conductive to the spread of V. cholera mentioned above resulted in recent outbreaks and predispose countries of the IOW to future outbreaks. We therefore aim, secondly, to bring new insight from the archives on IOW’s cholera history in a fruitful dialogue with the lived experiences of recent and ongoing outbreaks in this region, including but not limited to the civil war-induced cholera in Yemen, more localized outbreaks in Kenya or the annual monsoonal outbreaks of endemic cholera serotypes in Bangladesh.



We invite contributions that focus on cholera in the Indian Ocean World and help to shed new light

· on the ecological geography and the diverse cultural and historic perceptions of disease causation, transmission and control;

· on the multilayered interactions between cholera outbreaks and non/human mobilities; whether assumed, blamed or evidence based;

· on the lived experiences of sufferers, care givers and health care professionals



Contributions might have a rather scholarly or an applied character, drawing on archival studies or on field work; they might be situated inside or between medical anthropology, medical history, geography, IOW studies, public health and allied fields or within the work experience by health professionals and aid organizations.



As the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has upended international travel, we intend to organize the workshop in a hybrid mode: both in a webinar format as well as an in-person presentation at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Please send an abstract of about 300 words and a short bio by January 15, 2023 to

eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at and vivekneelakantanster@gmail.com



The workshop Cholera in the Indian Ocean World since the Nineteenth Century is co-funded by and contributes to the SSHRC Partnership Appraising Risk.



Contact Info:

Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Vienna, Austria

Email: eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.ateva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at

vivekneelakantanster@gmail.com



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eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at

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Une histoire de la peste à Java

A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
 

Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Southeast Asia Program Publications (December 15, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501766824

In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the "rat-flea-man" theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging seeking to "rat-proof" their beliefs along with their houses.

The transformation of houses, villages, and people was documented in hundreds of photographs and broadcast to overseas audiences as evidence of the "ethical" nature of colonial rule, proving so effective as propaganda that the rebuilding continued even as better alternatives, such as inoculation, became available. By systematically reshaping the built environment, the Dutch plague response dramatically expanded colonial oversight and influence in rural Java.

Bourses de Master en approches critiques de la médecine

Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, and Medicine (CAST-M) Masters Program

Call for applications


CAST-M is a new pathway to encourage doctoral student diversity in the fields of science studies, medical humanities, history of science and technology, and history of medicine. We aim to recruit and support emerging scholars from backgrounds that are traditionally marginalized in STEM-adjacent humanities fields. As a special track in the MA program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, we strongly welcome applicants critically engaging with science, medicine, technology, and engineering, their intersections with questions of race, gender, sexuality and colonialism, as well as in the Global South and in communities subject to systemic discrimination. A focus on the relevance of these histories to STEM-adjacent humanities fields offers urgently-relevant insights into the production and reproduction of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism in everyday life.

This competitively-funded MA program provides students with training in different disciplines within science studies, and the opportunity to work with faculty to develop their independent research. It also supports students applying to Ph.D. programs at Hopkins and beyond.

Funding opportunities, including full scholarship with stipends, will be available. Admitted students will be affiliated with the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Program on Medicine, Science, and the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Applicants must have a BA or equivalent degree by the time of admission. To apply, please submit: A letter of intent between two to three pages, single-spaced, describing your research interests and previous experience.
A writing sample of no less than eight pages and up to 15 pages of continuous prose.
A curriculum vitae.
Finalists will be requested to submit names of three references who can write letters supporting their candidacy.

Application deadline: January 15, 2023

For inquiries, contact CAST_M@jhu.edu 

Apply here: https://applygrad.jhu.edu/

Médecins, chirurgiens, apothicaires français de la marine et des colonies

Médecins, chirurgiens, apothicaires français de la marine et des colonies XVIe-XIXe siècle

Pierre Aubry et Bernard-Alex Gauzere


L'Harmattan
Collection : Médecine à travers les siècles
2022
Broché - format : 13,5 x 21,5 cm • 180 pages
Langue : français
ISBN : 978-2-14-031193-2

Les grands voyages d'exploration entrepris par la France dès le XVIe siècle furent d'emblée grevés par une lourde mortalité parmi les équipages, d'où la nécessité de « médicaliser » les navires ainsi que les implantations des colons dans de nouvelles terres. Les premiers médecins, chirurgiens et apothicaires qui partirent sur les océans à partir du XVIe appartenaient tous à la Marine. Où et comment étaient-ils formés ? Quelle fut leur vie à bord des vaisseaux, puis à terre aux colonies ? Cet ouvrage tente de répondre à ces questions, en étudiant leur formation dans les hôpitaux de la Marine et dans les écoles de chirurgie navale des ports de Rochefort, Toulon et Brest, puis à l'École de santé navale de Bordeaux. Puis, il traite de la formation des médecins militaires ayant participé aux opérations outre-mer, au Val-de-Grâce et à l'École de Strasbourg ; sans oublier les médecins du Roi, affectés aux colonies et les chirurgiens de plantations en charge de la santé des esclaves.

Les politiques des maladies animales au Mexique

The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World
 

Thomas Rath

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (November 24, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1108844482

Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and ranchers from both countries, battalions of Mexican troops, and scientists from Europe and the Americas, the campaign against aftosa was unprecedented in size. Despite daunting obstacles and entrenched opposition, it successfully eradicated the virus in Mexico, and reshaped policies, institutions, and knowledge around the world. Using untapped sources from local, national, and international archives, Thomas Rath provides a comprehensive history of this campaign, the forces that shaped it – from presidents to peasants, scientists to journalists, pistoleros to priests, mountains to mules – and the complicated legacy it left. More broadly, it uses the campaign to explore the formation of the Mexican state, changing ideas of development and security, and the history of human–animal relations.

Remèdes et textes médicaux en vieil anglais

Hybrid healing: Old English remedies and medical texts
 

Lori Ann Garner

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (December 13, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526158499

Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle. Hybrid healing works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Through a case study approach, this exploration of early medicine offers a series of close readings tailored specifically to individual remedies, drawing from a range of fields including plant biology, classical rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies. Embracing the endless complexity of these Old English texts, Hybrid healing argues that the healing power of individual remedies ultimately derives from a dynamic and unpredictable process that is at once both deeply traditional and also ever-changing.

Colloquia Ceranea V

Colloquia Ceranea V 

Call for papers

11-13 May 2023

We have great pleasure in inviting you to the fifth edition of the international scholarly
conference Colloquia Ceranea, organised by the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the
History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe “Ceraneum”, University
of Lodz, Poland, 11-13 May 2023.

In recent years we have organised the symposium in various ways, each time doing our utmost
to arrange everything in the best possible manner. As for the upcoming edition, having analysed
the results of the survey conducted during the Colloquia Ceranea IV and, profiting from our own
experience, we have come to the conclusion that the Colloquia Ceranea V Conference will be
held in a hybrid mode, as it makes the event more accessible for both the speakers as well as
the audience.

However, as our meetings are always accompanied by lively discussions, which, naturally, are
problematic for the full involvement of online participants and since we are planning a few
events in addition to the main sessions, we would like to kindly encourage you to take part in
the Colloquia Ceranea V in person.
 

Plenary lectures will be delivered by:
Prof. John Haldon (University of Princeton)
Prof. John Wilkins (University of Exeter)
Dr. Maria Leontsini and Dr. Ilias Anagnostakis (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

As it is customary, we would encourage the participants to focus on issues covering the main
research fields of the Ceraneum Centre, i.e. food and medicine from Antiquity to the Early
Modern Period, history and culture of Byzantium and the Slavic World in the Middle Ages. Though
the agenda of the symposium will be, as always, shaped ultimately by your proposals, we would
like to inspire you with the three following thematic areas 2023:
 

Byzantium in times of turmoil (late 7th - early 8th c.) – new perspectives
Between the last reign of the Heraclian dynasty and the rise of the Isaurians (Syrians), the empire
found itself in crisis. Despite its political, military, economic, cultural aspects having been studied
and interpreted by many scholars throughout the last century, new research has changed many
earlier assumptions, and it is now worth reflecting once again on those pivotal years. Was it a
crisis of state or of imperial power? To what extent did it involve the provinces? Did nature and
climate changes influence the situation? What were its consequences for the social groups, cities
and villages, economy and culture? How were the geopolitical circumstances transformed? Was
the political elite entirely replaced and what can be said about the newcomers? These are only a
few of the topics we propose to address.

History of medicine and food:
The history of ancient and Byzantine medicine is an important branch of knowledge, which
predominantly provides us with data on the most common illnesses of that time, their
treatments, the patients and the doctors but it can also, if appropriately researched into, reveal
aspects of social and economic history.
 

In the forthcoming Colloquia Ceranea we welcome papers discussing both, purely medical issues as
well as those inspired by the non-medical related data found in medical writings, e.g.
• The reception of Galen’s output in Byzantium and beyond the Greco-Roman world;
• Ancient medical knowledge preserved in Byzantine medical treatises;
• Ancient and Byzantine pharmacopoeia;
• Baths and bathing in ancient and Byzantine therapeutic procedures;
• Women in the light of ancient and Byzantine medical treatises;
• Everyday life reflected in ancient and Byzantine medical treatises;
• Ancient and Byzantine medical treatises as a source of knowledge on social disparities.
 

We are also looking forward to talks linking medicine and food history (e.g. dietetics or food
therapy). Furthermore, we intend to introduce a debate on everyday foodstuffs and food taboos
in the ancient and Byzantine Mediterranean in the context of literary sources (e.g. medical,
culinary, agronomic, etc.) and archaeological materials.

Religious culture, identity and diversity
The Byzantine and Slavic worlds provide a wealth of fascinating examples to explore the social
manifestations of religious identity and diversity. Questions of faith, dogma and piety were at the
heart of medieval people’s concerns. Contact with people having alternative beliefs or practises
gave rise to a range of reactions: building bridges or walls. When we follow these reactions in the
historical plane: we find debates and tumults; persecutions, periods of tolerance or unity-building.

The literary manifestations of these contacts are also noteworthy: sermons that exploited fear or
disgust of strangers to build group cohesiveness, sharp polemics or emotionally neutral
descriptions. The Colloquia Ceranea primarily hosts scholars dealing with heresies, polemics,
monastic culture and its literature, but we remain open to scholars working on other aspects of
religiosity: liturgy, sacred architecture, pilgrimage movements, ecclesiastical administration, the
development of theology and the transformation of religious writing: hagiography, homiletics, etc.

As always, we await papers discussing other research fields, such as:
• material culture and everyday life;
• historical and political geography;
• historiography;
• peace and war studies;
• society, mores and social norms;
• education;
• language;
• art and visual culture;
• political culture and ideology;
• the state and its organization.
 

INDIVIDUAL AND PANEL SUBMISSIONS:
You are encouraged to submit your proposals of a thematic group (or thematic groups) organised
around one specific topic (i.e. thematic panels). Each panel should consist of a minimum of 3
speakers. Individual submissions are also welcome. Proposals for panel topics (including the list of
panel speakers) as well as individual submissions should be sent by January 31, 2023 to:
colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.

Application forms:
Individual submission: www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl
Panel submission: www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl
Although we expect the majority of papers to be delivered in English, other languages are also
acceptable, provided that the speaker prepares an English hand-out (or multimedia
presentation) outlining the main points of the talk.
 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATION:
Selected conference papers will be published in article format in “Studia Ceranea”, a yearly
journal indexed in Scopus, the Web of Science Core Collection (Emerging Sources Citation Index),
EBSCOhost, and a number of other databases.
The deadline for submitting papers to “Studia Ceranea” is May 31, 2023.
However, if you are not able to finish by that time, there will still be the possibility to deliver
your text by December 31, 2023, so that it would be published in the volume covering 2024.
You will find all editorial instructions on the journal’s website: Studia Ceranea. Editorial
Instructions
 

CONFERENCE FEE:
In-person participants will be charged a 250 PLN (Polish zloty) conference fee, which will cover
organisational costs, including lunches and coffee break snacks.
For on-line participants the fee will be 100 PLN.
Please note: if your university is unable to cover the conference fee, there may be the possibility
to have it reduced or waived.
 

CONFERENCE SECRETARIES
Dr. Krzysztof Jagusiak
Dr. Karolina Krzeszewska
Dr. Zofia Rzeźnicka
Dr. Jan Mikołaj Wolski
If you have any question, please contact us at colloquia.ceranea@uni.lodz.pl.

 

Le soin du cerveau dans le christianisme primitif

The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity

Jessica L. Wright

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First edition (December 13, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 310 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520387676 

Cerebral subjectivity—the identification of the individual self with the brain—is a belief that has become firmly entrenched in modern science and popular culture. In The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, Jessica Wright traces its roots to tensions within early Christianity over the brain’s role in self-governance and its inherent vulnerability. Examining how early Christians appropriated medical ideas, Wright tracks how they used these ideas for teaching ascetic practices, developing therapeutics for the soul, and finding a path to salvation. Bringing a medical lens to religious discourse, this text demonstrates that rather than rejecting medical traditions, early Christianity developed by creatively integrating them.

Poste en histoire culturelle de la psychiatrie

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in literature and/or cultural history and medical humanities

Call for applications

 The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University (UCPH), Denmark, and the Centre for Culture and the Mind, invite applicants for a tenure-track assistant professorship in literature and/or cultural history and medical humanities, to be filled by 1 April 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Job content
A tenure-track assistant professorship is a six-year, fixed-term academic position involving both research and teaching. The successful candidate will be obliged to complete a teacher-training course designed especially for assistant professors, and will be expected to be able to take part in all the activities of the Department, including examinations and administration.

Approximately six months before the end of the six-year period as assistant professor, a committee set up by the Dean will assess whether the assistant professor can be considered for promotion to a tenured position as associate professor. 

Read more about the tenure-track programme at the UCPH here:
https://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/tenure-track-at-ucph/.

The successful candidate’s research profile should be focused on the relationship between literature, psychiatry and culture, and on exploring literary engagements with the Centre’s core themes: ideas of the mind in different socio-cultural and political contexts, narratives and languages of mental health, the construction and influence of psychiatric concepts beyond the medical sphere, experiences of illness and illness narratives, cross-cultural conceptualisations of trauma and resilience, experiences of migration and cross-cultural encounters, etc. Engagement with postcolonial and decolonial literatures of health and illness is particularly encouraged. The candidate should have expertise in at least one of the following language and cultural areas: English-, German-, French-, Italian- or Spanish-speaking world, and an active interest in comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research and teaching.

The candidate will be expected to develop courses in medical humanities as part of the Centre’s own emerging teaching portfolio, as well as to teach more general courses in literature and/or cultural history at the BA and MA levels in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies.

The position is partly funded by the DNRF Centre of Excellence, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND).

The successful candidate will work closely with the Centre leader Ana Antic and join the Centre’s dynamic international and interdisciplinary research team.

The Centre for Culture and the Mind explores the puzzling relationship between cultural difference and the human psyche from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: historical, anthropological, psychiatric, sociological, literary and psychological. It zooms in on the core questions about the universality or otherwise of the human mind, which remain as difficult to answer today as they were a century ago.

The Centre proposes that the issue of culture-mind relationship lays at the core of many social, political and medical debates: within cross-cultural psychiatry/psychotherapy, in trauma studies, and in migration and refugee studies. It explores how the human mind and common humanity have been imagined in different cultural, sociopolitical and disciplinary contexts, examining the assumptions and forces which shaped such definitions. By analysing how different cross-cultural models of the psyche were formulated and critiqued, the Centre’s interdisciplinary team aims to develop a new framework for understanding cross-cultural interventions, which pushes beyond the binary of universalism and cultural relativism in order to arrive at a more nuanced model of interaction between socio-cultural contexts and ideas of the psyche.

The Centre consists of four interrelated thematic strands: cross-cultural research in human sciences; cross-cultural notions of trauma and resilience; cross-cultural therapeutics and creative mind; and cross-cultural encounters and population movements (migration).

Qualification requirements
The Assistant Professor will be a core member of the Centre’s leadership team. He or she will take part in the work of all four research strands and will be expected to contribute to coordinating the second and third strands in particular, in order to develop academic leadership skills and become an independent research leader by the end of the tenure-track period. He or she will also take part in mentoring and supervising postdocs and PhD students at the Centre, with the expectation that he or she will be able to supervise independently by the end of the six-year period.

In terms of research, the successful candidate is expected to work both independently and in collaboration with the research team. Within the Centre, the candidate will take part in broader intellectual and methodological discussions around the Centre’s goals and general directions, and will also be expected to design and work on original research projects. This position will offer the successful candidate an excellent opportunity to establish and develop his/her own research career, to establish strategic research collaborations and partnerships, and acquire requisite academic leadership skills.

He or she should hold a PhD degree in the field of literature or/and literary and cultural history with a focus on medical humanities.

For further information, including more details on the Centre for Culture and the Mind, please contact Centre Leader  Ana Antic at ana.antic@hum.ku.dk, or Head of Department Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen at lvhansen@hum.ku.dk

The applicant is expected to provide a statement of his/her academic and pedagogical approaches to university teaching.

Applicants are encouraged to read the University guidelines for teaching portfolio when appointing staff at the UCPH https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/job-application-portfolio/

The duties of the position are evenly distributed on tasks related to teaching and tasks related to research (including relevant administration and knowledge-sharing). Documented competences in both of these main fields of activity, as well as the ability to reflect on them, will be weighted in the assessment process (see further below).

Furthermore, emphasis will be placed on the following academic and personal qualifications:

• Research qualifications, which will be assessed in relation to the period of active research, the degree of originality, and academic output, e.g. number of publications published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals or in comparable high-ranking series published with internationally recognized publishing houses. 
• The applicant’s scientific record, academic breadth and depth, rigour, thoroughness, and accuracy.  
• Research qualifications, which will be assessed in relation to the period of active research, the degree of originality, and academic output, e.g. number of publications published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals or in comparable high-ranking series published with internationally recognized publishing houses.
• The applicant’s scientific record, academic breadth and depth, rigour, thoroughness and accuracy
• Teaching qualifications: Read more about our Educational Charter at  Educational Charter – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk) and Pedagogic Basis and Guidelines at https://uddannelseskvalitet.ku.dk/quality-assurance-of-study-programmes/university-guidelines/pedagogic-basis-and-guidelines/
• Experience and qualifications with regard to dissemination of research, knowledge-sharing and engagement with the wider public, the media and the world of politics.
• Documentation of possible administrative qualifications.

Tenure-track assistant professors must hold an academic record demonstrating internationally competitive research, and/or have internationally recognized potential to make a future impact.

Assessment of applicants will primarily consider their level of documented, internationally competitive research. Teaching qualifications are not mandatory, but documented teaching qualifications and teaching experience will be taken into account. Applicants’ outreach qualifications, including the ability to attract external funding, will also be considered.

The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies aims to promote a parallel-language working and study environment. The working language of the Centre for Culture and the Mind, where the appointment will be based, is English. The candidate will be expected to have a high proficiency in academic English, and to be able to interact in English in a professional setting. Within a reasonable period of time (3-6 years), non-Danish-speaking appointees are also expected to acquire proficiency in Danish sufficient to be able to interact with colleagues and students.

For further details about the qualification requirements for assistant professorships, please read the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2019 here:
Ministerial_Order_no._1443_of_11_December_2019_on_Job_Structure_for_Academic_Staff_at_Universities.pdf (ku.dk)

Six overall criteria apply for assistant professor appointments at the University of Copenhagen. The six criteria (research, teaching, societal impact, organisational contribution, external funding and leadership) are considered a framework for the overall assessment of candidates.
Furthermore, each candidate must be assessed according to the specific requirements stated in the job advertisement.

You can read more about the criteria UCPH criteria here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/criteria-for-recognising-merit/

You can read more about the criteria for recognising merit for assistant professors here: 5a_Criteria_for_recognising_merit_-Assistant_professors.pdf (ku.dk)

Application 
Please click on the “Apply now” icon at the bottom of this page.

The application must be written in English and include the following enclosures:

• Application letter/cover letter.
• Curriculum vitae (with the applicant’s email address, telephone number).
• Documentation of qualifications (examination certificates/PhD diploma, etc.).
• Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with star*.
• Research plan, including a short description of previous research and a plan for the coming years that includes an account of involvement in organising research, establishment of research seminars, symposia and congresses, etc.
• Teaching portfolio. Documentation of teaching qualifications and research dissemination (organisation of classes, materials, courses and other forms of teaching).
• Publications. Applicants may choose a maximum of five publications for assessment, of which at least two must have been published within the five years immediately preceding the deadline for applications. At least two of these publications must have been published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals or in comparable high-ranking series published with internationally recognized publishing houses. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and listed from 1 to 5.

Should any material submitted consist of work with named co-authors, or work that is otherwise the result of collective academic endeavours, the extent of the applicant’s contribution to the work must be clearly stipulated. The Faculty may ask for a signed statement from the co-authors stipulating the extent and nature of each individual’s contribution.

The core application materials (CV, cover letter, research plan and teaching portfolio) should be submitted in English. The publications can be submitted in English, German, French, Italian or Spanish. The committee encourages applicants to submit at least one publication in English.

Appointment procedure 
After the application deadline, the Head of the Department selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the Appointment Committee. All applicants are then immediately notified whether their application has been accepted for assessment. The Dean subsequently appoints an expert assessment committee tasked with carrying out an assessment of the selected applicants for the specific post. Selected applicants are notified of the composition of the committee. Applicants are ultimately offered the opportunity of commenting on the part of the assessment relating to themselves before the appointment is finalized.

Further information about the application procedure is available from HR, e-mail: hrsc@hrsc.ku.dk. Please refer to ID number 211-0127/22-2N #1.
 

Salary and conditions of employment 
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The salary range starts at DKK 35,700, (EUR 4,800) + a 17,1 % contribution to the pension scheme. It is possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis.

The Faculty of Humanities offer a starting package for tenure-track assistant professors, please read more here: https://humanities.ku.dk/about/tenuretrack/

A special tax scheme is offered to researchers recruited abroad, please see: https://ism.ku.dk/salary-tax-pension/tax/

If you consider applying from abroad, you may find useful information on how it is to work in Denmark and at UCPH here: 
New to Denmark (nyidanmark.dk)
Workindenmark 
For international researchers at the University of Copenhagen – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)

The UCPH wishes to encourage everyone interested in this post to apply, regardless of personal background.

The closing date for applications is 15 January 2023 at 23:59 CET.

Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered.

Københavns Universitet giver sine knap 10.000 medarbejdere muligheder for at udnytte deres talent fuldt ud i et ambitiøst, uformelt miljø. Vi sikrer traditionsrige og moderne rammer om uddannelser og fri forskning på højt internationalt niveau. Vi søger svar og løsninger på fælles problemer og gør ny viden tilgængelig og nyttig for andre.

Kontakt

Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen

E-mail: lvhansen@hum.ku.dk

Info

Ansøgningsfrist: 15-01-2023

Ansættelsesdato: 01-04-2023

Afdeling/Sted: Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

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Claver Morris

The Doctor’s World: The Life and Times of Claver Morris, 1659 - 1727
 

Paul Hyland

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (November 25, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032367644


This is the story of the extraordinary life of Claver Morris and the society in which he lived. After his marriage at Chelsea in 1685, Claver Morris moved to Somerset where he established an outstanding reputation for his work as a physician. His diaries show us how he worked with apothecaries and surgeons, and travelled widely to treat all kind of patients, from the children of the poor to those of the landed gentry. The diaries also tell us about the joys and pains of Claver’s personal and family life, and of his various intrigues.

Claver Morris was a man of many talents: immensely enterprising, knowledgeable, sociable and loving. His house was always filled with music, guests and entertainments. Yet he was often faced with disputes and troubles partly of his own making ― as when he courted a bishop’s daughter, or stole some land to build his Queen Anne house.

The Doctor’s World provides a unique portrait of a physician living and working through the political and religious turmoils that beset the nation at the turn of the eighteenth century. Tales of medical treatments, clandestine marriages and self-serving priests are entwined with famous acts of treason and rebellion, and the pleasures and tragedies of daily life.

This meticulously researched book will appeal to all readers of social, political, medical and family history.

Médecine antique et biologie

Ancient Medicine and Biology


Call for Papers 

We are delighted to announce an Ancient Medicine and Biology Workshop for graduate students and ECRs, which will take place at Princeton University this spring (March 4-5, 2023).

The workshop will feature keynotes by established scholars, interspersed with workshop sessions on pre-circulated papers of 15-30 pages, chosen by open call [see below]. Workshop sessions will open with comments by a discussant, followed by a brief response by the author of the paper, and then general discussion.

To that end, we invite submissions of abstracts on any topic connected with medicine and biology in the Ancient Mediterranean world, broadly construed. We particularly encourage submissions that creatively engage questions of methodology, reception, transmission, and comparison; case studies in reception, comparative studies, or histories of transmission are warmly welcome, as is philosophical, literary, and historical work on medicine and biology—drawing on textual and/or material sources—in the ancient world.

Abstracts (due January 1, 2023) should be 500 words or fewer, not including bibliography and should be submitted blind. Please separately attach a cover page with your name, contact information, and a brief biography describing your research. If you would be interested in serving as a discussant for another paper, please do indicate that willingness in your submission email; note that we will endeavor to pair you according to the research interests outlined in your brief biography. These materials, as well as any questions or concerns, should be sent to malinab@princeton.edu

and norahw@princeton.edu

We can cover all accommodation and meal costs during the weekend and reimburse travel up to $100; if additional travel costs pose a difficulty, please do not hesitate to apply. In these cases, funding permitting, we hope to be able to offer additional support. For those for whom travel is not currently possible, hybrid options will be made available.

Confirmed participants thus far include: Mariska Leunissen (UNC Chapel Hill), Colin Webster (UC Davis), and Claire Bubb (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU).

“Ancient Medicine and Biology” is co-sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

Mort et maladie dans le monde médiéval et moderne

Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond 

Dr. Lori Jones & Dr. Nükhet Varlık (Editors)

 

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ York Medieval Press (November 22, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1914049095

 

This collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease, across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions.

Across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions shared inherited medical paradigms containing similar healthy living precepts and attitudes toward body, illness and mortality. Yet, as the chapters collected here demonstrate, customs of diagnosing, explaining and coping with disease and death often diverged with respect to knowledge and practice.
Offering a variety of disciplinary approaches to a broad selection of material emerging from England to the Persian Gulf, the volume reaches across conventional disciplinary and historiographical boundaries. Plague diagnoses in pre-Black Death Arabic medical texts, rare, illustrated phlebotomy instructions for plague patients, and a Jewish plague tract utilising the Torah as medicine reflect critical re-examinations of primary sources long thought to have nothing new to offer. Novel re-interpretations of Giovanni Villani's "New Chronicle", canonisation inquests and saints' lives offer fresh considerations of medieval constructions of epidemics, disabilities, and the interplay between secular and spiritual healing. Cross-disciplinary perspectives recast late medieval post-mortem diagnoses in Milan as a juridical - rather than strictly medical - practice, highlight the aural performativity of the Franciscan deathbed liturgy, explore the long evolution of lapidary treatments for paediatric and obstetric diseases and thrust us into the Ottoman polychromatic sensory world of disease and death. Finally, considerations of the contributions of modern science alongside historical primary sources generates important new ways to understand death and disease in the past. Overall, the contributions juxtapose and interlace similarities and differences in their local and historical contexts, while highlighting and nuancing some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease - two historiographical subfields long approached separately.