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Dora Vargha

@doravargha.bsky.social
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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.

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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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.
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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
Three people sitting in front of a screen in an old style lecture theater
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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!
Poster for Beyond Bare Life event, orange lettering on white background, containing highlights and a QR code for the detailed program. Three drawings of hands are also pictured, one intact and two with fingers partially severed.
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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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Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
June 9 Seminar Special Roundtable - World in Turmoil: Displacement as Academic and Historical Experience
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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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Socialist Medicine @socmederc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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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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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Alila Brossard @alilacandonga.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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...
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Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
Monthly Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar, September 10
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The latest output of the research project @socmederc.bsky.social
Cake with white icing, on it the text Socialist Medicine and the logo of the project, the side of the cake is covered with colourful confetti
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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...
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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
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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism
This online workshop will focus on absences from recent discussions on internationalism and is the 3rd 'Rethinking Internationalism' event.
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Socialist Medicine @socmederc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Join us for what promises to be a fantastic discussion!
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Big congratulations 🎉 to Jorinde Wels from KU Leuven for winning the #eahmh25 Pieter van Foreest Prize 🏆 for best student presentation!
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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....
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Alila Brossard @alilacandonga.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
#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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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
#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 ❤️
Sanssouci palace - the gardens were vast! Sunset from the conference boat trip The interior of one of the many glasshouses at the Berlin botanic gardens Interior of an old pharmacy with dark wooden shelves & bottles. Now a wine bar & restaurant
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
Poster containing a list of authors and presenters, date, time and place of the book launch, black book cover showing a world map and a blurb from Arthur Kleinman on the book
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
if you liked #eahmh25 in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of @eahmh.bsky.social, Katerina Liskova!
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
River swimming… but is it safe? Crocodiles, E. Coli and how we understand the environment by Claas Kirchhelle at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Art curators, filmmakers, patient activists and historians in a roundtable that is truly beyond medicine and health at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Energizing and empowering session by the wonderful Amir Teicher in the martial arts wake-up session of #eahmh25 @eahmh.bsky.social
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The traditional boat trip of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health is happening. Andreas Jüttemann is guiding us through Berlin’s medical history. Make sure to join the association not to miss out on the next boat trip in two years! #EAHMH25
A photo taken from a boat of a person holding a mic with an old building in the background and a tower.
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
And now for the traditional boat tour of @eahmh.bsky.social ! Special guided tour through Berlin by historian of medicine Andreas Jüttemann #eahmh25 #histmed
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The wonderful @historyelaine.bsky.social on paper technologies, advertisements and bringing together media studies and history of early modern medicine through an impressive archive project in her keynote lecture #eahmh25 #histmed
Woman standing behind lectern in front of a projected presentation talking and gesturing
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Check out our brand new special issue “Socialist Health: of Shortages and Solidarity” at the Brill book stand of #eahmh25 ! also fully OA at brill.com/view/journal... #histmed
Journal table of contents of EHMH, see https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/82/1/ehmh.82.issue-1.xml
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Alila Brossard @alilacandonga.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#EAHMH is on in Berlin! @doravargha.bsky.social opened with panache and Projit Mukharji with the Mole and Indian Communist Acupuncturists who like Frank Sinatra 💃
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Congratulations to Heidi Hausse for winning the #eahmh25 Book Award for The Malleable Body, Manchester University Press, 2023 @eahmh.bsky.social #histmed
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
@eahmh.bsky.social strong start to #eahmh25 with Projit Mukharji and the little mole
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“My place is usually tidier than this” Conference bags packed and ready for #eahmh25 starting in 3 days!
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Great to have a glimpse of my new book, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic coming soon @hopkinspress.bsky.social (no cover yet, but working on it) in new book series on epidemic histories edited @doravargha.bsky.social & @steerewilliams.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)! #histmed #histstm #sts
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Socialist Medicine @socmederc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Here is a sneak peek into our upcoming OA special issue Socialist Health: of Shortages and Solidarity in the European Journal of the History of Medicine and Health, co-edited with @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue as part of @socmederc.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #histmed
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
4 more days to register with Early Bird fees for #EAHMH25 in August! Detailed programme coming to the website very soon eahmh25.org/registration/
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EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine
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Nicole Albrecht @nalbrecht.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thrilled to see this article out in the world, soon featuring in the special issue on Health and Socialism edited by @doravargha.bsky.social @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue! For more on entanglements between socialist and social medicine from the Yugoslav perspective: t.co/5QnTExGqa7
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Jelena Đureinović @jelenadj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue. brill.com/view/journal...
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Early bird registration for #EAHMH25 ends in 10 days! Register today here: hi.converia.de/frontend/ind... See you soon in Berlin!!! #histmed
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Participant registration – EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Preliminary schedule for #EAHMH25 is available on the website, along with accommodation options, information on bursaries and more details on keynote speakers. Registration opens soon! Check out eahmh25.org #histmed
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EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Wonderful article, highly recommend for your reading lists and syllabi #histmed
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Open Access publication out in History of Human Sciences! 'Making Contagion Social' is a parallel history of epidemiological modelling and the sociology of imitation. I read Gabriel Tarde's work through the lens of Ronald Ross' 'theory of happening' to contest journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I've been thinking more and more about revisiting my research on scientific collaboration between scientists in authoritarian regimes and 'the free world' during the Cold War. Ironically, I was planning to present a paper on it in the US this May...
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thinking about the anniversary of something that was not an event, didn't begin 5 years ago, is not really in the past, and which defies established ideas and experiences of time. I do know for certain that history, it matters for epidemic thinking: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h... #histmed
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History Isn’t Entirely Repeating Itself in Covid’s Aftermath
Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike any of them.
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Johann Petitjean @johannpetitjean.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
DL is today. The conference promises to be spectacular : eahmh25.org #health #histmed #histSTM #actuESR
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EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
it is astonishing that this needs to be explained.
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