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May Newsletter

Posted by C3W Admin on May 27 2025


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NEWSLETTER MAY 2025

Welcome to this month’s newsletter.

Our project team has been busy with presentations at events showcasing their research and we are excited to be able to share the details below.

The end of project Conference is in the planning stage, more details soon.

Please take a moment to check out the publications, and events we’ve got listed below and remember to sign up before it’s too late—tell your friends and colleagues.

Presentations by the Project Team

Edna Suárez-Díaz gave a presentation on the 11th April at the conference

Edna Suárez-Díaz was the keynote speaker at the conference  organised by  El Colegio Nacional, on “80 Years after the End of World War 2”  on April 24th. The title of her presentation was “Anxiety and Hope: Science and Technology after WW2.”

There are two example slides from this presentation below.

Edna Suárez-Díaz presented at this event on the 25th April the talk’s title was “Evolution and disease at the molecular level: history matters.” She talked about the rise of biomedicine and the dependence on state funding after WW2, a history relevant to understanding the current crisis of research funding in the USA.

On May 2, Dora Vargha presented a paper titled “At the intersection of the biomedical and social: vaccination and competing definitions of socialist health” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) in Boston, USA.

Sarah Howard discussed the campaign to redress the exclusion of PhD parents from childcare support available to other low-income parents at a roundtable event on parenting in academia held at Birkbeck on Tuesday 13 May.  While other academics from different career stages talked about their experiences and examples of good (and less good) practice. 

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-lives-of-early-career-researchers.pdf

Dora Vargha presented “Medics on the Move: Hungarian physicians, global solidarity projects and the limits of brotherhood” at the Diasporic Natures Conference held at Cambridge University 21-22 May, 2025

Publications

Gisela Mateos and Edna Suarez Diaz are editors of this volume and have written the Introduction: Grounding Development in Mexico Abstract
The history of science and technology has transformed how to look at topics traditionally associated with other historical fields, such as industrialization and modernization, including the history of development interventions and technical assistance projects after World War II. Adopting and adapting research and analytical tools from different historical disciplines, such as the transnational approach and access to new archival collections worldwide, have produced nuanced narratives and sophisticated analyses of various geographies. Nevertheless, the history of technology in Latin America and Mexico, from the point of view of global history, is still underrepresented in the growing literature of the period. The new order had immediate implications for Mexico, reflected in the creation of several scientific and professional fields; the country’s geographic location and revolutionary national history presented her with specific challenges and opportunities. In this and the following chapters, we aim to give specific content to development, not as a purported national program or as an international model, but as a series of decisions, activities, and materialities usually grouped under “technical assistance.” Development is not being used here as the driving force of history but as a category that needs to be explained in local and historical terms.

 

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