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“Connecting Three Worlds” Project Celebrates Four Years of Global Collaboration

Lu Chen On 4-5 September 2025, the “Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health after WWII” project funded by the Wellcome Trust celebrated its successful conclusion with a conference at Keynes Library of Birkbeck college, University of London. The conference brought together scholars from across the globe to celebrate and reflect on ground breaking […]

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African, Afropean, Afropolitan: Report from the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2025

Sarah Howard Held in Prague from 25–28 June, the biannual ECAS event was a fantastic conference, which ran smoothly and efficiently, and hosted a huge range of interdisciplinary panels, keynotes, book launches and roundtables, as well as a panoply of artistic and cultural programming. This short report will focus on the panel most pertinent to […]

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Seminar Series – Gender and Health. Discussing Socialism and Transformation after WWII

This seminar series aims to gather academics exploring women’s experiences —activisms, demands, and negotiations— and gender-related systemic transformations —health cultures, political participation, state-building, and development innovations— after WWII. As part of the Connecting Three Worlds project, we focus particularly on the global tensions created by the Cold War, recognising that this period’s “East-West rivalry” partially […]

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March Newsletter

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 * […]

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C3W event at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Imperial and Global History (CIGH)

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 […]

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C3W and the Cholula conversations

Andrea Espinoza From 4 – 6 December, part of the C3W team participated in a workshop about future research and publications projects. Cholula is a special place. The morning light hits the domes of the ‘Santuario de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios’ in a way that brings out its colour and makes the yellow contrast […]

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