PhD candidate Bryony Harris gave a great presentation at the Humanities Graduate School Conference, titled ‘Disease control and bodily autonomy in Mehmed Ali’s Egypt (1831-1843). As a team, we are all very proud of her and look forward to follow her progress.

On 5 June, Giorgio Ennas will be presenting in Naples his paper Who is afraid to cooperate? The Sanitary Council of Tunis between fear and cooperation at the conference ‘Epidemics: contacts and contagions, reactions, and emotions’, focused on reactions and emotions in the face of epidemics in the pre-industrial age. Ennas is investigating how, between…

On 28 April we spoke with Frank Huisman about the efforts to decolonize (the history of) global health, as described in ‘A World South-Side Up? Global health and the Provincializing of Europe’. This article, co-edited with Nancy Tomes, was published in the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health in 2021. We want…

This collection brings together contributions that explore the many lives of ‘security’ in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine how the quest for security shaped imperial cooperation and competition, while also being used as a pretext for colonial expansion, violence, and genocide—patterns that persist in various forms today. Crucially, the pursuit of security created new…

On 12 March Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky gave an enthralling book presentation. The event appropriately took place in the room named after the late Alex Brenninkmeijer, ardent defender of civil rights. Attendants gathered in anticipation to hear Vladimir speak about the overlooked humanitarian crisis that took place in the 19th Century, when Circassians were forced into exile….

On 6 February, Dr. Jan Eijking from Oxford University presented his draft article on the history of international sanitary conferences and the concept of ‘technocratic capture.’ The ERC COOPERATION team reviewed his article and provided feedback, which we hope he found helpful. We wish him success with his article and his fascinating research.

On 12 March dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California) will give a talk on his latest book ‘Empire of Refugees’ (2024), published by Stanford University Press. No registration required.