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March 2022 Dora Vargha, Sarah Marks and Edna Suárez-Díaz gathered for a secluded space of writing and planning the next activities of the C3W project. A position paper is the result of the stay at Heidesee, soon to be submitted for publication. Read more about the presentation here.
Professor Dora Vargha gave the CEERES Director’s Lecture at the University of Chicago titled Endings in Crisis: Pandemic Narratives in Times of Conflict and present her research in progress in the Centre’s seminar. The enduring persistence, resurgence and mutation of many epidemic diseases have made apparent the problematic nature of the ‘epidemic disease narrative’ in […]
David Bannister and Sarah Marks have received a Birkbeck-Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund Grant to host a workshop with Ghanaian doctors and health administrators reflecting on their international training, including in the socialist world. Sarah Howard has also been awarded a grant from Birkbeck’s School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy to fund a series […]
ERC Starting Grant SOCMED, Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History The ERC Starting Grant research project titled “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History” is launching a fellowship to enable a displaced or at-risk scholar regardless of nationality to spend up to six months at Humboldt University in Berlin. This opportunity is open to […]
On the 14th April, 2022, Professor Dora Vargha gave a keynote lecture at the Spring School of The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (l’EHESS) and Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health, and Society (CERMES3) Utopias/Dystopias in the Field of Health: Political Expectations, Promises and Practices in Autrans-en-Vercors, France.
7-8 April 2022 Professor Edna Suárez-Díaz paticiapted in the Workshop “History and Historiography of the Life Sciences: Traces of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in Berlin.
We are seeking panelists for the panel ‘Biomedicine in Socialist Contexts’ for HSS 2022, to be held in Chicago between 17-20 November. This session aims to bring together scholars interested in exploring socialist contexts where biomedicine became a tool in health policies and global diplomacy. As the Cold War evolved, health and research networks in […]
