Today my Hist of Epidemics class got to take advantage of being an hour away from one of the world's foremost centers for biocontainment & high-level infectious disease care, with historical artifacts & books from the last 200+ years of medical & public health history! Thank you, @unmc.bsky.social!

Here's the TOC! Feb. 2026.

On 6 Oct, 10-11am CST, Dr. Cath Burns of U of Johannesburg will deliver a Zoom talk for medical hums. at Nebraska titled "Faith, Hope and Science in the Time of AIDS: The Sinikethemba Centre and McCord Zulu Hospital." Flyer, abstract, & bio below.
Advance registration required: go.unl.edu/hmedburns

Nebraska folks: I am so delighted to welcome Dr. Suman Seth (@alltoosuman.bsky.social) to Lincoln this Wed., April 16, at 5pm in the Lied Commons, where he will be sharing his latest research for the Linda and Charles Wilson Lecture in Humanities in Medicine (flyer below). Please join us if you can!

Still thinking about my colleague Gerald Steinacher's marvelous talk last night on "Germany's Reckoning with its Nazi Past" (i.e. Vergangenheitsbewältigung), which helped me better understand the German election and this truly stunning map of the results. Fascinating. And unsettling.

Spotted at the AHA book exhibit today! Terrific to see my friend Bryan Banks' book on display. Get your copy of Write to Return today!

Also had the great pleasure of running into @puentevaldivia.bsky.social! It was so good to see you, my friend -- genial! A ver que no pasen 10 años más jaja

The lowest performers in the 2024 State Scorecard on Women’s Health & Reproductive Care were Mississippi, Texas (www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...), Nevada, & Oklahoma.
The highest maternal death rates were in Tennessee, Mississippi, & Louisiana. www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...

VOTED!

You all gotta go outside and look north right now

If you work or have an interest in the health humanities and are in the San Antonio area, please consider joining us in October for this event. Registration is free but required: colfa.utsa.edu/interdiscipl...
The program will be on the website soon!

Didn’t expect it to be quite this hot in New York in March. Unreal

As seen at @ahahistorians.bsky.social, my book and my Cambridge Element on display! Of course I had to take a photo

If you're interested in publishing in an academic journal and you'll be in SF for #AHA24, come join the conversation on Saturday at 3:30! @ahahistorians.bsky.social

Will you be in SF for @ahahistorians.bsky.social? Interested in learning more about AI? Come chat with us on Sun, Jan 7 at 11am: "AI & the Historical Profession: Applications & Implications" w/ Abe Gibson, @joguldi.bsky.social, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social, @nolauren.bsky.social

So, I assigned my first ever "unessay" final project in my History of Epidemics course and I was blown away by my students' creativity. Poems, video games(!), paintings... Here are some great examples, inc. a plague mask, "hysteria cookies" (for the whole class!), & Freddie Mercury at Live Aid

Please join us tomorrow at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as we discuss my book, as well as the 1719 plague in Ottoman Bulgaria and Istanbul and implications of archival silences.

Via Zoom, Nov. 29, 12pm ET, 18:00 Vienna time

Some fun news: I just got word that my contribution to
@CambridgeUP's Elements in Global Urban History series, titled Urban Disasters, has been published online and IT'S AVAILABLE FOR FREE PDF DOWNLOAD FOR 2 WEEKS at this link: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004053
Please help to spread the word!