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
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📢 New on First View!
Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.
#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.
#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
📢 New on First View!
Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.
#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.
#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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CFA: Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Historia de América Latina
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160015
Köln, 21.01.2026-31.03.2026, Universität Köln, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de América Latina
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160015
Köln, 21.01.2026-31.03.2026, Universität Köln, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de América Latina
www.hsozkult.de
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
CFA: Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Historia de América Latina
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160015
Köln, 21.01.2026-31.03.2026, Universität Köln, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de América Latina
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160015
Köln, 21.01.2026-31.03.2026, Universität Köln, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas / Anuario de Historia de América Latina
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Interested in the politics of #remembering in the #Caribbean?
Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@dependencybonn.de
Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@dependencybonn.de
January 23, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Interested in the politics of #remembering in the #Caribbean?
Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@dependencybonn.de
Fresh of the press: a new collective volume by Sinah T. Kloss, Andrea Gremels & Ulrike Schmieder is now freely accessible: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@dependencybonn.de
Zum Start ins neue Jahr gibt es einen neuen Beitrag in unserem FEVER-Blog! Unsere PI Stefanie Gänger schreibt über die Klassifizierung von Fiebererkrankungen und deren "Unordnung" in der Sattelzeit.
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...
„Un ordre semblable à celui des botanistes“: Die (Un-)Ordnung der Fieber - Department of History
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Zum Start ins neue Jahr gibt es einen neuen Beitrag in unserem FEVER-Blog! Unsere PI Stefanie Gänger schreibt über die Klassifizierung von Fiebererkrankungen und deren "Unordnung" in der Sattelzeit.
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...
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#CfA : 1 Akademische:r Mitarb. (PostDoc) (w/m/d) "Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit" @uniheidelberg.bsky.social auf 4 Jahre. Mitarbeit in der Fachstudienberatung, Verwaltung des Deutsch-Französischen Masters & Ph.D.-Tracks @ehess.fr #DFH #FrüheNeuzeit
Frist: 5. Januar 2026
Frist: 5. Januar 2026
1 Akademische:r Mitarb. (PostDoc) (w/m/d) "Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit" (Univ. Heidelberg)
Am Historischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg, Professur für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, ist ab 1. April 2026 eine Stelle als Akademische:r Mitarbeiter:in (PostDoc) (w/m/d) in Vollzeit (100%) zu besetzen.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#CfA : 1 Akademische:r Mitarb. (PostDoc) (w/m/d) "Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit" @uniheidelberg.bsky.social auf 4 Jahre. Mitarbeit in der Fachstudienberatung, Verwaltung des Deutsch-Französischen Masters & Ph.D.-Tracks @ehess.fr #DFH #FrüheNeuzeit
Frist: 5. Januar 2026
Frist: 5. Januar 2026
Join us for some FEVER at Deutsches Museum in Munich if you happen to be in the area! www.deutsches-museum.de/assets/Forsc...
www.deutsches-museum.de
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Join us for some FEVER at Deutsches Museum in Munich if you happen to be in the area! www.deutsches-museum.de/assets/Forsc...
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
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.
www.hsozkult.de
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
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de
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...
@feverprojecthd.bsky.social
🩺 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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🎤 youtu.be/s33HUEE4C4E?...
[#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
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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🚨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
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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
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de
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...