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We have gathered together the latest news and events, together with some content not available on the website and put it into a Newsletter, see below. If you would like to receive our Newsletters in your mailbox each month, please sign up below. We promise to only send you news from the project. Subscribe * […]

The Connecting 3 World Project is pleased to share the fantastic news that our Ph.D. student Liang Wan has passed his Ph.D. upgrade recently. Co-supervised by the PI of our project, professor Dora Vargha, and Dr. Stacey Hynd, Liang’s research focuses on scientization, institutionalization, and popularization of acupuncture in Maoist China. As part of the […]

A Global History of Hungary: 1869-2022 [Magyarország Globális Története: 1869-2022], published earlier this year in Hungarian language analyses the modern and contemporary history of Hungary in a truly global perspective for the very first time. Edited by Ferenc Laczó and Bálint Varga, the book is the result of broad interdisciplinary cooperation and includes contributions by […]

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 […]

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 […]

16 March 2022 Dora Vargha discussed the pandemic and war at the “COVID Calls” digital archive to reflect on the first two years of the pandemic. Watch the interview here.

PI Dora Vargha was invited to a conversation with Anna Calori at the Research Center for the History of Transformations in Vienna for their podcast series.  Transformative Podcast takes the year 1989 as a starting point to think about social, economic, and cultural transformations in the wake of deep historical caesuras on a European and global […]

23 January 2022 Dora Vargha was interviewed for an article titled ‘A sea of questions after epidemics’ in the Portuguese daily newspaper, Publico on her research on epidemic temporalities. You can find the article in Portuguese here.

11 January 2022 Hungarian independent news portal Mérce published a feature interview with Dora Vargha about the research agenda of the project, titled ‘One third of the world has been left out of the history of health’. The interview is available in Hungarian here.

10 January 2022 Dora Vargha was featured in a video report of the Washington Post to talk about the lessons from history regarding the end of the pandemic. See the interview here.

11 December 2021 African Arguments published an article by our team member Dr Sarah Howard titled “Underinvestment, Corporate Greed and Lack of Oversight: The Scandal of Facebook’s Role in Ethiopia’s Conflict”. Read the article here.

We are happy to welcome the new Connecting 3 Worlds project team! Our first, virtual meeting took place in August, and will be officially launching our collaboration in Berlin on the 22nd of September. PhD student Liang Wan has started his doctorate training at the Department of History at the University of Exeter in September […]