Socialism and Health in East Asia Workshop in Shanghai 7-8 June Lu Chen has been organising the Conference taking place in Shanghai. There have been speakers who are unable to join the conference, so the decision has been made to make this a hybrid event. The programme details are shown below and if you would […]
Gender and Health. Discussing Socialism and Transformation after WWII Thursday 18th April, 2024. Dr Teresa Huhle, University of Cologne • Women’s Voices in the Transnational Debate on Family Planning and Population Control in Cold War Colombia Dr Andrea Espinoza Carvajal, University of Exeter • Reproduction and control in Guayaquil’s vulnerable urban communities between 1965-1985. Women’s […]
Gender and Health. Discussing Socialism and Transformation after WWII Thursday 4th April, 2024. Dr Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Missouri State University • Socialism, Gender Equality, and Reproductive Politics in China Dr Eszter Varsa,Central European University • Roma and the politics of reproduction in postwar Hungary For registration please use Eventbrite to secure your place. The Zoom […]
Gender and Health. Discussing Socialism and Transformation after WWII Thursday 21st March, 2024. Dr Réka Krizmanics, Universität Bielefeld • Hungarian Women as Ambassadors of SocialistMedicine: Women Medical Professional’s Access to and Experience of Mobilities in the Global South and the West in the 1950s and 1960s Dr Agata Ignaciuk, University of Granada • Socialist reproductive […]
Gender and Health. Discussing Socialism and Transformation after WWII Thursday 7th March, 2024. Professor Dora Vargha will give the Keynote lecture via Zoom. For registration please use Eventbrite to secure your place. The meeting details will be sent 24 hours before the event. This seminar series aims to gather academics exploring women’s experiences —activisms, demands, […]
Lu Chen A ground-breaking conference organized by the Wellcome Trust funded project “Connecting three worlds: socialism, medicine and global health after WW2” concluded 16 June 2023. It shed new light on the history of global health and the influence of socialism on healthcare systems. The conference brought together nearly 20 scholars from various regions of […]
Humanitarianism, Otherwise: Cuban (Health)Care as Political Praxis. P. Sean Brotherton, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology New York University Join us for a Public Lecture, with the opportunity to ask questions, followed by a drinks reception at the Simon Bolivar Saal, Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin on the 14th June. For registration head to our Eventbrite page. Abstract Under […]
***SAVE THE DATE*** University of Exeter Centre for Medical History Writing the History of Abortion after the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Workshop: Tuesday 18th April 2023 Queen’s Building, University of Exeter Speakers include: Mary Fissell (John Hopkins); Laurence Totelin and Rhian Williams (Cardiff); Andrea Espinoza-Carvajal (Exeter); Zubin Mistry (Edinburgh) On 24 June 2022 the US […]
CALL FOR PAPERS Conference “Connecting three worlds: health & socialism in the Cold War ” Funded by the Wellcome Trust Berlin, Germany, June 14th- 16th, 2023 Organizers: Dora Vargha, Sarah Marks and Edna Suárez-Díaz Keynote: Sean Brotherton (NYU) This conference is organized under the auspices of the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award “Connecting three worlds: […]
On behalf of Chris Sandal-Wilson and the University of Exeter’s Centre for Imperial and Global History (CIGH), co-hosted with the Centre for Medical History, you are all warmly welcome to the next event. We are thrilled that this event will involve online and in-person three of the postdoctoral research fellows on our project, based at […]
