November Newsletter

Posted by C3W Admin on November 13 2025

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NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2025

Welcome to this month’s newsletter.

All good things must come to an end, but we are pleased to inform you that our Researchers have secured positions with other excellent projects, and we will certainly stay in touch.

For our final year Dora, Sarah and Edna will continue their work on the project, so please stay tuned for future newsletters.

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Research News

Sebastian Fonseca will be travelling to El Salvador for a two-week fieldwork trip later in November, to the archives of the Universidad de El Salvador and the personal collection of public health pioneer Maria Isabel Rodríguez (former Minister of Health during the FMLN Funes government). I will also conduct interviews with activists and ex-FMLN guerrilla members involved in founding the national healthcare system and shaping health policies in the country.

Upcoming Events

On November 17, Dora will give a talk titled Liberal technical assistance or socialist material aid? The WHO crisis and the making of an alternative international health at the colloquium of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin

https://cmb.hu-berlin.de/events/dora-vargha/

19-20th November, Warsaw

Sarah Howard, Simon Huxtable and Sarah Marks will be presenting their research at an upcoming conference at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of History on ‘Theoretical and Practical Aspects of East European Development Aid to Africa During the Cold War Period’ on the 19th and 20th of November. The conference will focus on how development was conceptualized, questions of knowledge flow between and across Eastern Europe and Africa, the political rationale for development aid, and the planning and organization of expertise.

On November 24, Dora will present “Communist M*A*S*H: The Making of Socialist International Health in a North Korean Field Hospital” at the Global Health colloquium at Freie Universität in Berlin.

https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/Dates/Colloquium-Global-History_WiSe25-26_04-Dora-Vargha.html

Past Events

Workshop

On November 12, Dora presented her research at at King’s College London (online) in the seminar of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, titled Thinking With… Socialist Medicine.

Publication News

Some News from our website

Maziyar Ghiabi

In October 2026, we inaugurated a photographic exhibition and short ethnographic documentary currently being displayed in Exeter. It’s titled: The Virtual Shepherd: Love and Screen Addiction at the End of the World.

It is a photographic and video exploration of Ali, a young shepherd in Iran’s remote 70 Peaks Valley. In the 2010s, he managed a Telegram chat with over 5,000 members, sustaining a vibrant online life he called majāzi — “the virtual.” The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the surreal intersection of rural life and digital connectivity, where the smartphone becomes a site of desire, longing, and endless scrolling. Even as platforms change, the experience of being online remains strikingly familiar.

You can access it on VIMEO

https://connecting3worlds.org/the-virtual-shepherd-love-and-screen-addiction-at-the-end-of-the-world/

Work in Progress

Cristian Montenegro (KCL) and Sebastian Fonseca are currently finishing an article on decolonising global health, using case studies from the People’s Health Movement, ALAMES and the history of the Primary Healthcare Approach during the Cold War, proposing the integration of ‘conjuncture analysis’ within the scope of the scholarship. This will be completed for the journal Global Public Health, in due course.

Global Histories Community Health Special Issue in the Bulletin for the History of Medicine: Andrea Espinoza Carvajal and Sebastian Fonseca will be finalising the last details of the introduction article for the special issue as they receive the final reviews for the contributions. It’s been a slow process but valuable and progress is being made. Hopefully, we will have final updates very soon.