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Professor of Economic & Social History | Historical demography | Histories of medicine, health, and healing | Netherlands | Suriname | sub-Saharan Africa University of Groningen

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The End of Endogamy? Two Centuries of Kin Marriage in the Netherlands (1812-2021)

Just out, our article in a Special Issue of Quaderni Storici on "Incest Discourses and 25 Years of Kinship History" www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1408/...

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Senior researchers in History (291971) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Senior researchers in History (291971), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

#CFA: We are hiring 2 Postdocs and 1 PhD to study how first names convey information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (c.1750-1950). Join us in Trondheim!
2 Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
1 PhD: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
(deadline for applying: March 15)

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The Future of Population in Non-Western Societies - STIAS Public lecture by Alex Ezeh – Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study Thursday, 15 May 2025 @ 16:00 - 17:30 - Register here before 13 May 2025 (in-person & online) Abstract: Since Thomas Malthus published his β€œAn Essay on the Principles of Population, as it affects the ...

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MΓ©dicalisation de la maternitΓ© et de la garde des enfants dans les contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux How to be a mother? Medicalization of motherhood and childcare in colonial and postcolonial contexts Call for papers Β  EAHMH 2025 Health Bey...

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I will send you an email you tomorrow. Will be here until Friday

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Yes!

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During our three-week field trip inventorizing archival, material, and oral history sources for researching #histories of #nursing in #Suriname, we visited the former leprosy hospital Batavia (1824-1897) today. We found an image of the shed in which patients were nursed and cared for.

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Stevin Seminar: Colonial patients and medical research – Stevin Centre for History of Science and Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Coming up 3 December: Fenneke Sysling will deliver the Stevin Seminar on COLONIAL PATIENTS AND MEDICAL RESEARCH at the VU Amsterdam, with a short response from me, followed by Q&A +🍷

#indonesia #history
@fsysling.bsky.social @vuhistoricus.bsky.social

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The image is a screenshot of a 2-page article titled James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice

The image is a screenshot of a 2-page article titled James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice

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To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for @TheLancet. On what he's taught me about responding to pushback.

To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgment".

James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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