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What a privilege and pleasure to attend yet another Balzan-FRIAS Masterclass in Global History, this time with the utterly brilliant Prof Patricia Calvin, who came over to Freiburg to talk about "Human Security and the History of Capitalism".

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“‘The Wisest Man Nevertheless Knows Not the Nature of A Fever.’ Epistemic Geographies and Enlightened Disputes.” Very much looking forward to presenting under those ceilings! www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/sy...

"The Wisest Man Nevertheless Knows Not the Nature of A Fever." Epistemic Geographies and Enlightened Disputes | Collège de Francewww.college-de-france.fr

Feel the heat? Join us in Heidelberg for an interdisciplinary summer school on FEVER. Stefanie Gänger, Ulrich Schwarz and Freddy Frischknecht welcome 30 participants and speakers incl. science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt to our Institute of Advanced Studies. Info & registration: lnkd.in/d7Yt5tf9

Join us today for Stefan Lüder's talk on volcanoes as environmental global actors at the Lecture Hall of Heidelberg's history faculty!

We are excited to announce the second FEVER lecture series for the summer term 2026, with different talks relating to the history of fevers, medicine, and science. Feel free to join us in person at the Lecture Hall of Heidelberg's history faculty (Grabengasse 3-5)!

www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Zum Start ins neue Jahr gibt es einen neuen Beitrag in unserem FEVER-Blog! Unsere PI Stefanie Gänger schreibt über die Klassifizierung von Fiebererkrankungen und deren "Unordnung" in der Sattelzeit. www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/un-ordre-...

Join us for some FEVER at Deutsches Museum in Munich if you happen to be in the area! www.deutsches-museum.de/assets/Forsc...

This FEVER historian spent the last few days deep in the beautiful archives of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, in the footsteps of the many doctors who came here in the 1700s to learn about fevers.

📖 In a new post on our FEVER-blog, our very own Lea-Marie Trigilia takes a look at the tensions between learned medicine and medical charlatanism during the petechial fever epidemics that affected Italy in the early 19th century. Happy reading! www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/the-most-...

It's time to look back on our FEVER conference which took place in early July at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences! To learn more about the tropics discussed, take a look at the conference proceedings at our FEVER-blog: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/workshop-... Huge thanks to everyone that joined!

Our team member @teresagoeltl.bsky.social recently spoke about her academic journey. Recorded by #Africana, a platform hosted by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, dedicated to showcasing research on Africa and its global connections: africanaens.com/portraits-de... 🎤 youtu.be/s33HUEE4C4E?...

[#9 PORTRAITS DE CHERCHEUR.SE.S] - Teresa GÖLTLYouTube video by Africana-ENSyoutu.be

Our FEVER Workshop wrapped up on Friday — what a pleasure and privilege it was! Huge thanks to all who joined us, and especially to our wonderful speakers, including Kevin Siena, @wraggem.bsky.social, Chris Hamlin, Margaret DeLacy, and Ricardo Cabral de Freitas.

Ahead of our FEVER-workshop on 10-11 July, we'll be hosting Kevin Siena's talk "The Foetus is made by Contagion: Pathology and the Enlightenment Debate on Human Variety", next Wednesday (July 9) at 16:15CET at the lecture hall of Heidelberg's History Faculty or online via zoom (e-mail us for link!).

We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Heidelberg next week and hearing your talk, dear Alex! And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.

Wherever you are in the world, if you want to hear the latest about the ‘Age of Fevers’, 1760-1830, join us online tomorrow, June 27, 14:00 (CET), when Stefanie Gänger will be speaking in the TRANSPACIFIC lecture series, hosted by a fellow ERC project. crossroads-research.net/projects/erc...

Transpacific Lecture Series - Crossroads Researchcrossroads-research.net

We are thrilled to inaugurate our FEVER blog with a post by Stefanie Gänger, Lea-Marie Trigilia, and Ricardo Castellón on the prevalence of fever-diagnoses in Guatemala's San Juan Hospital in the 18th century: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

If you happen to be in Berlin, join us this afternoon at 4pm in the global history colloquium convened by Sebastian Conrad, @mgoebel.bsky.social, and Isabella Löhr to hear our very own Stefanie Gänger explain the "Age of Fevers", 1770-1830. www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...

Global History Colloquium: Stefanie Gänger (Universität Heidelberg) on “'The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases': Global Histories of Fever, 1770–1830www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de