Dora Vargha
@doravargha.bsky.social
Prof. of History and Medical Humanities at @exeter.ac.uk and @humboldtuni.bsky.social . Berlin. Connecting Three Worlds, Socialist Medicine, After the End. Occasional stress baking.
wonderful thread from a dear colleague, a really heartening reminder of the joys of our work and the amazing community we have. #ArchiveHour is indeed a state of mind.
Things are so bad I joined WhatsApp (still don't have a smartphone though, no). In amongst the serious stuff in our 'at risk' chat are some Very Lovely Things.
For instance, my colleague who works on the Italian Renaissance shared this photo of the Archivio di Stato di Roma, where she currently is:
For instance, my colleague who works on the Italian Renaissance shared this photo of the Archivio di Stato di Roma, where she currently is:
July 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
wonderful thread from a dear colleague, a really heartening reminder of the joys of our work and the amazing community we have. #ArchiveHour is indeed a state of mind.
It’s hot in Berlin but Kate Fisher’s research is hotter! An amazing conversation with artist Aliz Farkas and historian Ketil Slagstad on care, medicine, sexuality and the vital importance of history in navigating life today at Beyond Bare Life #DefendExeterUni @exeter.ac.uk @humboldtuni.bsky.social
June 26, 2026 at 3:54 PM
It’s hot in Berlin but Kate Fisher’s research is hotter! An amazing conversation with artist Aliz Farkas and historian Ketil Slagstad on care, medicine, sexuality and the vital importance of history in navigating life today at Beyond Bare Life #DefendExeterUni @exeter.ac.uk @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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I did my MA/PhD at Exeter Uni & was recently an External Examiner for History. As in so many other hums depts under attack, the staff are bloody amazing, work their arses off, & don't deserve this attack (aside, if I hear the word "rightsizing" again, I cannot be held responsible for my actions).
June 24, 2026 at 9:30 AM
I did my MA/PhD at Exeter Uni & was recently an External Examiner for History. As in so many other hums depts under attack, the staff are bloody amazing, work their arses off, & don't deserve this attack (aside, if I hear the word "rightsizing" again, I cannot be held responsible for my actions).
Join us for a fantastic event this weekend in Berlin, what better way to escape the heat? We connect visual and performance artists with historians of medicine to explore questions around care. Film screening, interactive workshops, dance performance and more! See QR code in the image for details!
June 23, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Join us for a fantastic event this weekend in Berlin, what better way to escape the heat? We connect visual and performance artists with historians of medicine to explore questions around care. Film screening, interactive workshops, dance performance and more! See QR code in the image for details!
We invite you for our final event in the @socmederc.bsky.social seminar series on June 9, 2 pm CET: a conversation with @dinafainberg.bsky.social and Tal Zalmanovich on displacement and movement of expertise. Join us in Berlin or online, details below! socialistmedicine.com/june-9-speci... #histmed
Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
June 9 Seminar Special Roundtable - World in Turmoil: Displacement as Academic and Historical Experience
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June 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
We invite you for our final event in the @socmederc.bsky.social seminar series on June 9, 2 pm CET: a conversation with @dinafainberg.bsky.social and Tal Zalmanovich on displacement and movement of expertise. Join us in Berlin or online, details below! socialistmedicine.com/june-9-speci... #histmed
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A big thanks to series editors @doravargha.bsky.social and @steerewilliams.bsky.social for their wonderful help in bringing this book together, and to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding the 6-year project leading to this monograph
May 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
A big thanks to series editors @doravargha.bsky.social and @steerewilliams.bsky.social for their wonderful help in bringing this book together, and to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding the 6-year project leading to this monograph
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Check out our podcast on Apple, Spotify and Amazon! Our latest episode on Soviet medicine in Brazil, in conversation with Gabriela Alves Miranda now out! The podcast is recorded in Portuguese, you can find an English language transcript on our website: socialistmedicine.com/podcast-alve...
New podcast episode: Gabriela Alves Miranda (COC/Fiocruz)
Gabriela Alves Miranda (COC/Fiocruz) speaks about her research into ambassadors of Soviet Medicine in Brazil.
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March 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Check out our podcast on Apple, Spotify and Amazon! Our latest episode on Soviet medicine in Brazil, in conversation with Gabriela Alves Miranda now out! The podcast is recorded in Portuguese, you can find an English language transcript on our website: socialistmedicine.com/podcast-alve...
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Next Tuesday we welcome Laurence Monnais at the @socmederc.bsky.social seminar in Berlin and online. She will present on:
A Social(ist) Disease? Controlling Measles in Southeast Asia and Beyond 1963-2025
Do join us on site or online!
More information:
socialistmedicine.com/march-10-lau...
A Social(ist) Disease? Controlling Measles in Southeast Asia and Beyond 1963-2025
Do join us on site or online!
More information:
socialistmedicine.com/march-10-lau...
Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
Monthly Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar, September 10
socialistmedicine.com
March 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Next Tuesday we welcome Laurence Monnais at the @socmederc.bsky.social seminar in Berlin and online. She will present on:
A Social(ist) Disease? Controlling Measles in Southeast Asia and Beyond 1963-2025
Do join us on site or online!
More information:
socialistmedicine.com/march-10-lau...
A Social(ist) Disease? Controlling Measles in Southeast Asia and Beyond 1963-2025
Do join us on site or online!
More information:
socialistmedicine.com/march-10-lau...
The latest output of the research project @socmederc.bsky.social
March 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The latest output of the research project @socmederc.bsky.social
Great and important piece on how we might think about global history by Máté Rigó and
José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas
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José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global History Wars: Dispatches from the East-Central and Southern European Frontlines | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Global History Wars: Dispatches from the East-Central and Southern European Frontlines
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great and important piece on how we might think about global history by Máté Rigó and
José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Our 3rd Rethinking Internationalism conference, online, will be on "Blindspots and buzzwords in Internationalism" on 5 & 6 Nov. Lively discussion with an amazing line-up of researchers, do come along!
All welcome, sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
All welcome, sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our 3rd Rethinking Internationalism conference, online, will be on "Blindspots and buzzwords in Internationalism" on 5 & 6 Nov. Lively discussion with an amazing line-up of researchers, do come along!
All welcome, sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
All welcome, sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
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Join us for what promises to be a fantastic discussion!
On September 24 at 2:30 pm, the Centre Marc Bloch is glad to host Frédéric Keck for a discussion of his book Solidarity Between Species – Living with Animals Exposed to Pandemic Viruses.
Event in collaboration with the ERC-Project „Socialist Medicine"
@socmederc.bsky.social
@fredkeck.bsky.social
Event in collaboration with the ERC-Project „Socialist Medicine"
@socmederc.bsky.social
@fredkeck.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Join us for what promises to be a fantastic discussion!
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Jorinde's paper on "Pandemic over-Preparedness: Japanese public health experts and 1944 influenza" marks an exciting expansion of #histmed on the origins of pandemic planning.
August 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Jorinde's paper on "Pandemic over-Preparedness: Japanese public health experts and 1944 influenza" marks an exciting expansion of #histmed on the origins of pandemic planning.
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Great to be at European Association for the History of Medicine #EAHMH2025 in Berlin this week. Have been busy & terrible at sharing on here, but having a lovely time! First #histmed conference since 2019 as I've been going to health/design stuff instead, and it's so nice to reconnect with people.
@victoriabates.bsky.social and @drhick.bsky.social start the panel pleading for a "more-than-human" approach bringing environmental and medical histories together
August 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great to be at European Association for the History of Medicine #EAHMH2025 in Berlin this week. Have been busy & terrible at sharing on here, but having a lovely time! First #histmed conference since 2019 as I've been going to health/design stuff instead, and it's so nice to reconnect with people.
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Great conversations at the launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale in Berlin last night. @ctimmermann.bsky.social Sebastien Fonseca @doravargha.bsky.social Projit Mukharji Jeremy Greene me @ahlie.bsky.social
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Projit gave a stirring speech....
August 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Great conversations at the launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale in Berlin last night. @ctimmermann.bsky.social Sebastien Fonseca @doravargha.bsky.social Projit Mukharji Jeremy Greene me @ahlie.bsky.social
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Projit gave a stirring speech....
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#EAHMH25 very interesting panel on Disease Ecologies with excellent papers on Malaria, Dengue, Influenza and Rabies. Reflections on health education, environment and industry.
August 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#EAHMH25 very interesting panel on Disease Ecologies with excellent papers on Malaria, Dengue, Influenza and Rabies. Reflections on health education, environment and industry.
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What a phenomenal conference. Fascinating papers and keynotes, lovely friends, excellent food and a dream location. Huge thanks to @doravargha.bsky.social and the #EAHMH25 team for their stellar organization. Can’t wait for Prague 2027.
August 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What a phenomenal conference. Fascinating papers and keynotes, lovely friends, excellent food and a dream location. Huge thanks to @doravargha.bsky.social and the #EAHMH25 team for their stellar organization. Can’t wait for Prague 2027.
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#eahmh25 has been a great conference - huge 🙏 to organisers. Seeing old friends & meeting new ones. And for me, finally visiting Berlin. I’ve mainly been conferencing but have also managed some mini field trips to Sanssouci, the botanic gardens (Potsdam & Berlin) & a wine bar in an old pharmacy ❤️
August 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#eahmh25 has been a great conference - huge 🙏 to organisers. Seeing old friends & meeting new ones. And for me, finally visiting Berlin. I’ve mainly been conferencing but have also managed some mini field trips to Sanssouci, the botanic gardens (Potsdam & Berlin) & a wine bar in an old pharmacy ❤️
Medicine on a Larger Scale launched with an inspiring conversation and…. that’s a wrap for #eahmh25! Thanks to all who made this conference a truly wonderful affair. See you in two years in Prague! @eahmh.bsky.social #histmed
August 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Medicine on a Larger Scale launched with an inspiring conversation and…. that’s a wrap for #eahmh25! Thanks to all who made this conference a truly wonderful affair. See you in two years in Prague! @eahmh.bsky.social #histmed
Join us this evening to the book launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale with many #eahmh25 participants, our keynote Projit Mukharji and drinks, of course! Lettretage, 18:00 today! @eahmh.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Join us this evening to the book launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale with many #eahmh25 participants, our keynote Projit Mukharji and drinks, of course! Lettretage, 18:00 today! @eahmh.bsky.social
if you liked #eahmh25 in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of @eahmh.bsky.social, Katerina Liskova!
August 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
if you liked #eahmh25 in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of @eahmh.bsky.social, Katerina Liskova!
River swimming… but is it safe? Crocodiles, E. Coli and how we understand the environment by Claas Kirchhelle at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
River swimming… but is it safe? Crocodiles, E. Coli and how we understand the environment by Claas Kirchhelle at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
Art curators, filmmakers, patient activists and historians in a roundtable that is truly beyond medicine and health at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Art curators, filmmakers, patient activists and historians in a roundtable that is truly beyond medicine and health at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
Energizing and empowering session by the wonderful Amir Teicher in the martial arts wake-up session of #eahmh25 @eahmh.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Energizing and empowering session by the wonderful Amir Teicher in the martial arts wake-up session of #eahmh25 @eahmh.bsky.social