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Christos Lynteris
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Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) | Global War Against the Rat project, zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies & visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 4d
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 4d
🌱 Join us for the first event by the 'Decolonising Plant Knowledge' research network on 15 October

This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds

2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF
Decolonising Plant Knowledge Term Card. 15 October, Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Thinking around ‘Rau’. 22 October, Plant knowledge in plantation economies. 12 November, Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil and palaeobotany. 19 November, Toxicity, plant animacy and blurred categories.
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Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social · 1h
The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production!

For more information:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/
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Oct. 16. Radio & Archival Production with Arthur Asseraf and Edward Allen Oct. 30. Reading Group - Ambivalent Archives X CRASSH Lauren Berlant Reading Group, with Orlaith Darling Nov. 13. Reading Group - Archives & Periodicals: Clipping and Scrapping Nov. 27. Listening Session - Shira Small’s The Line of Time and the Plane of Now… For more information, see https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/ambivalent-archives/#1-programme-2025-2026
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 7d
Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.
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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 1d
my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
A Volatile Picture
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 21h
Looking forward to the second issue of Les Nouveaux Cahiers Castoriadis, appearing later this month classiques-garnier.com/new/NccMS02
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Ágnes Györke @gyorkeagnes.bsky.social · 5d
Submissions are welcome to our ESSE seminar "Infrastructures of Feeling: The European City in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media".
18th ESSE Conference
31st August – 4th September 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: From my newsletter blending #earlymodern and #neuroscience of present-day writing in books: "the practice of reading, note-taking, thinking, drawing, and writing can generate unexpected solutions to mysteries that are (for the reader) too difficult to test empirically."
More on #writing:
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Walter Ralegh's headless monsters and annotation as thinking
On writing and picturing as forms of thinking and knowledge-making, with examples of Renaissance mapmakers and publishers demonstrating exactly this in the...
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d
Will always remember and cherish Michalis's ethos, humour and optimism even in the hardest of times. So many summers past, so many beautiful, unorthodox ideas - thank you Michali and farewell
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d
Grigoriou also rendered some of the most thought-provoking works by post-War Greek poetry (Aris Alexandrou, Manolis Anagnostakis, Tasos Livaditis) into profound musical compositions, most famously in Anepidota Grammata www.youtube.com/watch?v=58b5...
Μιχάλης Γρηγορίου, Άρης Αλεξάνδρου - Άννα | Official Audio Release
YouTube video by Ελληνικό Τραγούδι
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d
Devasted to hear of the sudden death of the Greek composer and dear friend Michalis Grigoriou, whose musical oeuvre brought together classical and electronic composition together for the first time in Greece www.efsyn.gr/efsyn-city/m...
«Έφυγε» ο συνθέτης Μιχάλης Γρηγορίου
Μεγάλη απώλεια για τον πολιτισμό, καθώς πέθανε ένας κατεξοχήν διανοούμενος του μουσικού χώρου.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d
Both an editor and translator of Émile Benveniste claim he read Derrida’s 1967 book De la grammatologie, and that notes in his archives prove it. I’m not so sure – the notes are on an article by Derrida, and I explain why I think this, and what this means
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Did Benveniste read Derrida’s Of Grammatology?
Jacques Derrida was certainly a careful reader of Émile Benveniste. He wrote a critique of Benveniste in “Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique” which appeared in 1971, in …
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d
So much looking forward to reading this book!
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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 1d
my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
A Volatile Picture
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 2d
🔴[Book Review]

Cueto & Lopes’ “Uma História Global e Brasileira Da AIDS” traces Brazil’s HIV journey from activism to universal care—a vital political history of health as human right.

🔗 tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/
#HIV #STS #Brazil #MarcosCueto #GabrielLopes #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 5d
We're super excited to be hosting Prof. Alison Bashford at @globalaffairslu.bsky.social to hear her talk about her fascinating new book on the history of reading the hand. You can imagine why we'd be interested and we are sure you will be too. Please sign up for free tickets at the link below.
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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 6d
How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?

Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.

Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 3d
📖 Compte rendu / Review

Sarah Cockram et Andrew Wells (dir.), #Interspecies Interactions: #Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity, @routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2018.

par Clémentine Girault (@upcite.bsky.social)

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
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LAS @las.ehess.fr · 4d
#RENCONTRE

Rencontre avec Philippe Descola « Politiques du faire-monde »

📆 23 octobre 2025 - 19h
📍Théâtre de la Concorde

➡️ theatredelaconcorde.paris/evenements/r...

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Rencontre avec Philippe Descola - Théâtre de La Concorde
Vivre ensemble autrement : découvrez la vision de Philippe Descola sur nos relations aux humains et non-humains face aux défis du monde.
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CNRS Éditions @cnrseditions.bsky.social · 5d
A lire dans @mediapart.fr à l'occasion de la sortie du film "Nouvelle Vague" : l'entretien de Jérôme Pacouret avec Ludovic Lamant sur le statut d'auteur de cinéma
www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 3d
the full series of seven discussions Horkheimer & Adorno had in January, 1939—focusing on the concept of the individual in Marx, Hegel, Freud, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, Caillois, the Oedipus myth, & more—that would lead to Dialectic of Enlightenment!
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 3d
here it is!

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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 2d
(Parution) Désarmer le béton. Ré-habiter la terre www.editionsladecouverte.fr/desarmer_le_...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you #MIT!
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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 2d
2 great articles plus responses in this forum @amethno.bsky.social - incl. my own small contribution: "Contesting pandemic imaginaries and epidemic-response spectacle" anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 3d
Employing Alison Kafer's 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/10/c...
Crip Time and the Recovery Paradigm: Clashes Between Institutional and Lived Temporality
Employing Alison Kafer’s concept of ‘crip time’ as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.
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CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 3d
Forthcoming with the
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES

#CSMBR #MedicalAlchemy #Antichrist #Rupescissa
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 3d
A very interesting article by Gertrud Hüwelmeier on "Face Masks for the Ancestors: Everyday Life and Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban Hanoi" @ positions read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
Face Masks for the Ancestors: Everyday Life and Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban Hanoi | positions | Duke University Press
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d
Daniel J. Sherman, Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890–1940 - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, May 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Sarah Mills
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Sensations
Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline’s scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention.   For well over a century...
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