Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease
@feverprojecthd.bsky.social
The ERC project lead by Stefanie Gänger, with Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, and Lea Trigilia at Heidelberg University explores the history of fever in societies within or tied to the Atlantic World.
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fever-project
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fever-project
This FEVER historian spent the last few days deep in the beautiful archives of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, in the footsteps of the many doctors who came here in the 1700s to learn about fevers.
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This FEVER historian spent the last few days deep in the beautiful archives of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, in the footsteps of the many doctors who came here in the 1700s to learn about fevers.
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The Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History is hosting a masterclass for (post-) doctoral researchers with Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) on global cultural history, set to take place 22-23 Jan 2026. Spread the word! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...
Balzan-FRIAS Masterclass in Global History
The International Balzan Foundation (Milan/Zurich) is funding a programme in support of early career researchers in the field of Global History.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History is hosting a masterclass for (post-) doctoral researchers with Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) on global cultural history, set to take place 22-23 Jan 2026. Spread the word! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...
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#WeekendListening sorted! 🎧
Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
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Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#WeekendListening sorted! 🎧
Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
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Chills, aches and hot flushes... What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie Gänger, Professor of Modern History @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
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📖 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-...
“The most harmful popular misconceptions”: Petechial Fever and Charlatanry in nineteenth-century Italy - Department of History
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September 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
📖 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-...
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!
Workshop Proceedings: Fever. Histories of (a) Disease, 1750-1840 - Department of History
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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!
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Find of the day: Turns out #Foucault was also into Pinel's fever classification!
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🩺 eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic...
August 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Find of the day: Turns out #Foucault was also into Pinel's fever classification!
@feverprojecthd.bsky.social
🩺 eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic...
@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...
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[#9 PORTRAITS DE CHERCHEUR.SE.S] - Teresa GÖLTL
YouTube video by Africana-ENS
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August 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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?...
🎤 youtu.be/s33HUEE4C4E?...
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.
July 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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.
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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!).
July 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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!).
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!).
July 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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!).
We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Heidelberg next week and hearing your talk, dear Alex!
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.
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
July 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Heidelberg next week and hearing your talk, dear Alex!
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.
Wherever you are in the world, if you want to hear the latest about the ‘Age of Fevers’, 1760-1830, join us online tomorrow, June 27, 14:00 (CET), when Stefanie Gänger will be speaking in the TRANSPACIFIC lecture series, hosted by a fellow ERC project. crossroads-research.net/projects/erc...
Transpacific Lecture Series - Crossroads Research
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June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Wherever you are in the world, if you want to hear the latest about the ‘Age of Fevers’, 1760-1830, join us online tomorrow, June 27, 14:00 (CET), when Stefanie Gänger will be speaking in the TRANSPACIFIC lecture series, hosted by a fellow ERC project. crossroads-research.net/projects/erc...
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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/...
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...
“…to be Cured of a Fever”: Guatemala, the San Juan Hospital’s Women’s Ward, and a World of Fevers, 1781–5 - Department of History
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June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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/...
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...
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🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay)
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#histmed #histstm
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UZH: Assistant History of Medicine
The History of Medicine Group within the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich, led by Professor Flurin Condrau, seek...
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June 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay)
#histmed #histstm
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#histmed #histstm
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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/...
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...
“…to be Cured of a Fever”: Guatemala, the San Juan Hospital’s Women’s Ward, and a World of Fevers, 1781–5 - Department of History
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de
June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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/...
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...
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Alles andere als Leere gestern bei Achim Landwehrs brilliantem Vortrag über "Lücken, Löcher, leere Stellen" in der (Vor-) Moderne am Historischen Seminar in Heidelberg!
June 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Alles andere als Leere gestern bei Achim Landwehrs brilliantem Vortrag über "Lücken, Löcher, leere Stellen" in der (Vor-) Moderne am Historischen Seminar in Heidelberg!
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Morgen, am 04. Juni, wird Achim Landwehr @achland.bsky.social zu "Lücken, Löcher, leere Stellen. Zur historischen Bedeutung des Weltmangels" vortragen. Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 16:15 Uhr im Hörsaal des Historischen Seminars. Join us!
June 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Morgen, am 04. Juni, wird Achim Landwehr @achland.bsky.social zu "Lücken, Löcher, leere Stellen. Zur historischen Bedeutung des Weltmangels" vortragen. Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 16:15 Uhr im Hörsaal des Historischen Seminars. Join us!
If you happen to be in Berlin, join us this afternoon at 4pm in the global history colloquium convened by Sebastian Conrad, @mgoebel.bsky.social, and Isabella Löhr to hear our very own Stefanie Gänger explain the "Age of Fevers", 1770-1830.
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...
Global History Colloquium: Stefanie Gänger (Universität Heidelberg) on “'The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases': Global Histories of Fever, 1770–1830
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May 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If you happen to be in Berlin, join us this afternoon at 4pm in the global history colloquium convened by Sebastian Conrad, @mgoebel.bsky.social, and Isabella Löhr to hear our very own Stefanie Gänger explain the "Age of Fevers", 1770-1830.
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...
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JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
Job: 0,65 Wiss. Mitarb. (m/w/d) „Globalgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (1400–1800)“ (Univ. Tübingen)
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-155042
Tübingen, , Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-155042
Tübingen, , Universität Tübingen, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2025
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May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social
Join us today (online or in person, if you happen to be in Heidelberg) at 4:15 CEST! Zoom-link request: modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Join us for the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...), with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Jürgen Osterhammel and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de to request link. And spread the word!
May 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Join us today (online or in person, if you happen to be in Heidelberg) at 4:15 CEST! Zoom-link request: modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
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We are looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Jürgen Osterhammel and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de to request link.
May 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
We are looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Jürgen Osterhammel and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de to request link.
Brought some FEVER to the table during the “Science, History and Globalization" Spring School in Maó, at the beautiful Institut Menorquí d'Estudis. Many thanks to the organisers - Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto Galán, Beatrice Falcucci & Daniele Cozzoli - for bringing everyone together!
May 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brought some FEVER to the table during the “Science, History and Globalization" Spring School in Maó, at the beautiful Institut Menorquí d'Estudis. Many thanks to the organisers - Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto Galán, Beatrice Falcucci & Daniele Cozzoli - for bringing everyone together!
It was a real pleasure to explore the past and present of fever(s) together with my colleague Ulrich Schwarz from Biophysics yesterday! Thanks to the organisers from InterdisciPlenary Heidelberg for making this event happen!
April 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It was a real pleasure to explore the past and present of fever(s) together with my colleague Ulrich Schwarz from Biophysics yesterday! Thanks to the organisers from InterdisciPlenary Heidelberg for making this event happen!
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If you should happen to be at Heidelberg next Monday (April 28, 7.15 pm in the Old City): Stefanie Gänger @feverprojecthd.bsky.social and myself will speak on fever from the perspectives of history and physics, respectively. Looking forward to interdisciplinary and lively discussions!
April 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
If you should happen to be at Heidelberg next Monday (April 28, 7.15 pm in the Old City): Stefanie Gänger @feverprojecthd.bsky.social and myself will speak on fever from the perspectives of history and physics, respectively. Looking forward to interdisciplinary and lively discussions!
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Join us for the book launch of Rethinking Global History (ed by our S. Gänger & J. Osterhammel), with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Poorvi Bellur and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de to request Zoom-link. And spread the word!
Ank: Rethinking Global History
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154372
Heidelberg, 14.05.2025, Jürgen Osterhammel, FRIAS; Stefanie Gänger, Heidelberg University
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154372
Heidelberg, 14.05.2025, Jürgen Osterhammel, FRIAS; Stefanie Gänger, Heidelberg University
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April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Join us for the book launch of Rethinking Global History (ed by our S. Gänger & J. Osterhammel), with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Poorvi Bellur and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email modern.history@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de to request Zoom-link. And spread the word!