Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)

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24 August 2026 07:10

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out in Korean, from Hyeonamsa! Please considering sharing this with Korean folks in your circles. 1/ 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics www.hyeonamsa.com/book/book_de...

Premodern Healthscaping

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24 July 2026 07:36

Our next panel is on 'Rural Landscapes, Un/sustainable Environments'. Jessica O'Leary begins, demonstrating how in colonial Brazil, Indigenous therapeutic practices formed foundational layers of colonial healthcare. She emphasises how this creates enduring but unacknowledged medical traditions.

Premodern Healthscaping

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24 July 2026 07:11

Today we start with pastries and a roundtable on the recently published 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balance' ed. by our G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social). Check out three OA chapters here: academic.oup.com/book/62595 #histmed #histstm

Simcha Gross

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09 July 2026 14:04

Delighted that my next book, Empires, Communities, and Loyalty on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier, is forthcoming with Cambridge UP! It explores when, why, & how questions of loyalty became attached to groups as such, esp. Jews & diverse Christian communities, & their political/social/religious effects

Richard M. Nixon

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05 July 2026 07:01

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.