iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And I wrote two articles for our "Wet Dreams"-project at the University of Geneva: 1) "Imperial Masculinities: Involuntary Losses of Semen as Markers of White Virility (France, 1830s–1880s)", in the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health (2025): doi.org/10.1163/2666... #histmed 🗃️

doi.org

Imperial Masculinities: Involuntary Losses of Semen as Markers of White Virility (France, 1830s–1880s)

Abstract The establishment of the diagnosis of spermatorrhoea by the French doctor François Lallemand in the 1830s and early 1840s is related to theories which posited that the power of colonising nat...

110

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A few more things to add to my list: Last year, my article on "Female Agents of Colonialism: Medical Reports on Muslim Women in Algeria in the 1890s" was published in the Maghreb Review: muse.jhu.edu/pub/457/arti... #histmed #ColonialMedicine #Colonialism #WomensHistory 🗃️

muse.jhu.edu

Project MUSE -- Verification required!

111

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Our Executive Director Lisa Quinn is at #FBM26 this week! Check out our booth at the Canada Stand. Our Frankfurt Rights Catalogue: buff.ly/rguAgk2

042

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the context of the author Patrick Hamilton's own struggles with alcoholism, it at times felt like a temperance play, with lines straight out of temperance manuals: One glass of whiskey can lead to destruction! If you part of #DrinkingStudies, I'd very much recommend you see this play!

020

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On Friday evening I saw the play "20,000 Streets under the Sky", @swkplay.bsky.social, followed by a brilliant Q&A by @terripaddock.bsky.social. As a drink's historian, I was struck by how much alcohol felt like an actual character in the play, with more agency than some of the characters! 🗃️🍸

This photo shows a group of people, miming holding up a glass of drink and smiling towards the camera. The people in the picture are the cast of the play "Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky" (Lucy Gray, Rosalind Lailey, Emily Beck & Alex Bhat), the moderator Terri Paddock, the director Matthew Iliffe and the producer Ashley Cook (representing Troupe).

#LondonTheatre

142

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

SSHM has been asked to share a call for submissions for a special issue for Black Histories: Dialogues journal Editors Simon Buck and Ogundiran Soumonni Abstracts by 1 September with manuscripts due by 31 January 2027 All details 👇 #histmed #histSTM @eahmh.bsky.social

think.taylorandfrancis.com

Medical histories in the Black Atlantic: Transversal perspectives

Examine the history of medicine in the Black Atlantic. Share research on health and healing in African and African diasporic contexts.

01411

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Terri Paddock @terripaddock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New Q&A! Three Ghosts of Silvertown, the seventh Newham Play, is the boldest production in the series, and it’s performed at Tate Institute, the historic building whose restoration inspired writer James Kenworth. 👉 Join me on 26 Aug: terripaddock.com/events/three... #LondonTheatre

032

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I have been following the street art of Invader for years: what a treat to come across this bottle while in Paris for the Alcohol and Drugs History Society-conference! 🗃🍸 #StreetArt #Alcohol #DrinkingStudies #Invader

Image is a photo of a street corner in Paris with an 8 bit bottle with an invader on it. Below it is a blue street sign, saying Quai de Bourbon.

0111

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

And also thanks to Domingo García Garza, for co-organising the lovely absinthe tour on Saturday evening with me! That was so much fun! 🗃️🍸 #DrinkingStudies #Historians #Absinthe #HistoryOfAbsinthe #ParisHistory

010

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My reading list has grown enormously over the past few days, our panel (with Darinee Alagirisamy & Zhi Qing Denise Lim) was so productive that we are now thinking about an edited volume & it was wonderful to get to talk to so many great alcohol & drugs historians! #DrinkingStudies #Historians 🗃️🍸

110

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The "Alcohol and Drugs History Society"-conference in Paris was amazing (despite the heat): Well done to organisers @marieroustide.bsky.social, Paul Boulland, @v-afanasyeva.bsky.social, @zoedubus.bsky.social as well as @erikadyck.bsky.social & the rest of the board of the ADHS! 🗃️🍸

This image shows a photo of three people - Darinee Alagirisamy, Zhi Qing Denise Lim and Nina S. Studer, left to right - during a presentation. Behind them is a projection of the title card of a presentation by Nina Studer with the title "Prohibitions in Pre-Absinthe-Ban France: Precedents from France's Colonial Empire". The title card shows a postcard from the 1906 Marseille Colonial exhibition. Photo credit goes to Victoria Afanasyeva, @v-afanasyeva.bsky.social!

1102

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Dr Zoë Dubus @zoedubus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Chaque 26 juin, partout dans le monde, des associations, collectifs, chercheur·es, soignant·es, personnes concernées et militant·es se mobilisent pour la journée mondiale d’action Support Don’t Punish. Face aux politiques répressives, cette journée est l’occasion de rappeler l’importance

1164

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For @drninastuder.bsky.social and anyone else at the ADHS conference - or anywhere! - who might like a copy of my book TEMPERANCE LIVES, use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the hardback cost at www.bloomsbury.com/us/temperanc...

bloomsbury.com

032

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷

53818

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.

The cover of the forthcoming book Colonial Negatives: Picturing History and Identity in Morocco by Patricia Goldsworthy. Bottom half of the image has an image of an oil seller in Fez surrounded by Muslim and Jewish Moroccans. The image highlights the religious diversity of the crowd, and demonstrates the dynamic nature of the Jewish district

1114943

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

So, listen to these lovely people: If you are interested in the history of absinthe (or alcohol in general), France and North Africa, do have a look at my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe! 🗃️🍸 #DrinkingStudies

011

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

And in a review in the American Historical Review, Hannah Halliwell wrote: "Studer’s careful attention to absinthe’s colonial context means The Hour of Absinthe can be considered as the most distinctive and wide-ranging resource on the history of absinthe." academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

academic.oup.com

Validate User

111

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Another two lovely reviews of #TheHourOfAbsinthe: In Petits Propos Culinaires, @neilbuttery.bsky.social wrote: "In this fascinating book, Studer identifies untruths and exposes prejudices, allowing evidence to lead her to any conclusions made." Thanks so much! journal.equinoxpub.com/ppc/article/...

journal.equinoxpub.com

Nina S. Studer, The Hour of Absinthe | Petits Propos Culinaires

244

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Bit belated - but happy new year to all my followers! This sketch for the absinthe brand Cusenier from 1907 claims that Cusenier is "the best New Year's gift - This is the only useful gift the boss received for New Year's: a bottle of Cusenier Oxygénée!" 🗃️🍸 #DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #AlcoholAdverts

This images shows a sketch from a newspaper, in black on yellowish paper. It shows a room with a couple of plants in the background. A middle-aged man in formal clothes sits in a chair, his back towards the readers, but turning around to them. Around him are luxury items: paintings, a statue, a gramophone, some bottles of alcohol, books and more. In his hand, the man holds a bottle of absinthe, smiling. Under the image, it says: "Le Meilleur Cadeau du jour de l'an. - Voilà le seul Cadeau utile que le patron ait reçu pour ses étrennes: une bouteille d'Oxygénée Cusenier!" Translation into English is in the post.

This sketch is by the French book illustrator Joseph Hémard and was published in "Le Sourire", on the 21th of December 1907, p. 10.

0103

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Darren Ross @dazzaross.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Since Book Recommendations is trending, I recommend The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink, which has an excellent write-up in the December 2025 issue of the American Historical Review. #Books #BookSky #Culture #Historians academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

academic.oup.com

Nina S. Studer. The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink.

Nina S. Studer’s book The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink is a welcome and much-needed addition to the growing field

051

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Darren Ross @dazzaross.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Visited the sort of appropriately-named Goulston Street to see this vampiric new invader. #GothicLondon #Invader #InvaderWasHere #NewInvasion #StreetArt

8-bit art of vampire on a brick wall. Day.

041

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

For those who like a festive tipple, we’ve got cocktail creations from the jazz age and beyond, books for wine connoisseurs, and tales of the origins of Absinthe Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social @iupress.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social #GiftGuide

075

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Darren Ross @dazzaross.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Very happy to see The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink among the recommendations. #Books #BookSky #Christmas #Culture #Historians

031

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Day Two at #ReadQuebec! Thanks again to AELAQ for making it happen.

041

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Day One at Read Quebec! Thanks to our brilliant colleagues at aelaq for organizing the New Knowledge: Nonfiction Lightning Round with MQUP authors Martha Langford, Stephen Monteiro, Alex Tipei, and Tom Waugh.

062

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

of the early Third Republic. Well-researched and refreshingly free of jargon, it will undoubtedly be the canonical work on the history of absinthe for years to come." Thank you! I can only say: Listen to Adam & read my book: h-france.net/h-france-rev... #DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #FrenchHistory 🗃️🍸

h-france.net

H-France Reviews, Volume 25 (2025) – H-France

042

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

And I am also very happy about the new review on H-France on my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe, by Adam Zientek (whose book "A Thirst for Wine and War" is great, btw)! According to him: "Nevertheless, The Hour of Absinthe is necessary reading for those interested in the history of alcohol and that [...]

h-france.net

H-France

262

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you want to know more about the role that France's imperial aspirations played in the development of the pathologisation of wet dreams in the 19th century, do have a look! #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #ColonialMedicine #FrenchHistory #Algeria #Orientalism #skystorians

030

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Very happy that my article "Imperial Masculinities: Involuntary Losses of Semen as Markers of White Virility (France, 1830s–1880s)" is out now, in the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health! brill.com/view/journal...

brill.com

193

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Very happy that my article on Dorothée Chellier - the first female doctor in colonial Algeria - has been published in the last issue of The Maghreb Review (Vol. 50, No 4 (2025))! #skystorian #Algeria #FrenchHistory #histmed 🗃️

This image shows the content page of the last issue of The Maghreb Review, Vol. 50, No 4 (2025). It shows articles by several different people, amongst them, the fourth from the top: Nina Salouâ Studer: "Female Agents of Colonialism: Women Doctors in Algeria at the Turn of the Century".

This image is a screenshot of the abstract of my article "Female Agents of Colonialism: Women Doctors in Algeria at the Turn of the Century".

The abstract says:
"Dorothée Chellier was born in Algiers in 1860 to French settler parents and became the first female French doctor in colonial Algeria, after completing her studies in Paris. As she had in-depth knowledge of the country, she was sent on “medical missions” to various parts of remote Algeria in the 1890s with the express goal of observing the lives and medical problems of “native” women. Chellier published a short book about a mission to the Aurès region in 1895, in which she focused on gynaecological issues among Algerian women. She often described how these women voluntarily contacted and trusted her, apparently eager to get help from a female French doctor. She also highlighted the importance of female medical experts for the future of France’s colonial project in Algeria, as Muslim women had been mostly hidden from her male counterparts throughout the 19th century.
This chapter proposes to analyse Chellier’s detailed descriptions of (the limitations of) the agency of Algerian women and contrast this with her own actions, influences and reception. Upon publication in 1895, her book was well received in French newspapers and her pioneering work served as an example to those female French doctors, like Hélène Abadie-Feyguine and Françoise Legey, who became active around the turn of the century in colonial Algeria. While sympathetic to many aspects of the lives of Algerian women, it is important to frame Chellier as an agent of colonialism. She defined her goals as providing medical help to formerly neglected groups in Algeria, as well as helping to “educate” the masses that she clearly viewed as being ignorant and unwilling to conform with France’s guidance. This was in line with the ideology of France’s paternalistic mission civilisatrice and with the opinions professed by her male colleagues."

011

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Great - I hope you are going to publish it at some point! And I agree. Comparing Porot's 1912 text on Tunisia with his 1918 "Notes de psychiatrie musulmane" is astonishing.

010

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

My wonderful friend, Cordelia Bähr, co-authored a book based on her successfully bringing a Swiss case to the European Court of Human Rights - the case of the #Klimaseniorinnen. The court ruled that protection from climate change is a human right #climate #ClimateChange #Klima #newbook

Picture is a photograph of a book on a black background. It shows a scene in the mountains, where people put a gigantic plaster on a melting glacier. Around the plaster, there are about 20 people. The title of the book is in orange: "Als die Schweiz ins Schwitzen kam: Die Klimaseniorinnen" ("When Switzerland broke out in a sweat: the climate seniors"). The authors are Brigitte Hürlimann, Cordelia Bähr and Elisabeth Stern.

150

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Very happy with this lovely article about our exhibition (on the medical history of machines and treatments against wet dreams) at the "Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités" in Geneva! 360.ch/culture/savo... 🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians

360.ch

Éjaculations nocturnes, terreurs humides – 360°

Les «pollutions nocturnes» sont au cœur d'une longue histoire des masculinités. À Genève, une expo revisite les peurs qu'elles ont suscitées.

150

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

And more for people in Switzerland: I will give a presentation with the title "Leaky Masculinities: Imperialism & Nocturnal Pollutions in 19th-Century Medical Theories" at the ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History in Zürich next week! Do come! 🗃️ #histmed #skystorians

Screenshot of the programme of the "Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-Euroepan History", on Thursdays, 16:15-17:45, at ETH Zürich Hauptgebäude, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich. At the top, it says "University of Zürich" and "ETH Zürich". Below this is a 19th-century map of the world, showing, I guess, trading routes. Below this map, it shows the first two presentations of this seminar. The first is one by Dr. Lasse Heerten (on the 2nd of October), and the second is by Dr. Nina Studer (Université de Genève), on the 16th of October 2025.

070

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

311347

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A! 🗃️

This image shows a black and white, early 20th century French advert for an electronic belt (Herculex, by a Dr Sanden), early 20th century. On the right hand side is the drawing of an older man in formal clothes, while on the left hand side, there is a drawing of two young, white men, wearing only shorts. The one on the left is holding up one of these belts in his right hand, while also wearing one, while the one on the right is on his knees, in the process of getting up, looking up at the other man. The title of this advert is "Regained Virility".

171

Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer

Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Me and my wandering womb are thrilled to see the Nursing Clio Reader in print! Kudos to the whole @nursingclio.bsky.social team on an amazing volume!

0156

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

There was even the idea, both in Britain in the 19th & in France's North African colonies in the 20th century, of teaism/theism/théisme, a problem viewed as potentially worse than alcoholism! One of my very favourite topics!

051

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It does look amazing, doesn't it? Cannot wait to see it!

010

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Ha. I am so sorry! I thought you had posted it on another post I made today, about an advert for cigarettes. So - absinthe: No, definitely not. 19th-century absinthe was no more (or less!) dangerous than any other similarly alcoholic drink of the time & had no harmful additives in it.

000

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

might have been Jewish. Not that this (Hugo Zietz being Jewish) would necessarily exclude the possibility of antisemitic tropes being used in adverts for these cigarettes, obviously!

120

Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

How grim if that is what this advert represents! I wrote this in reply to @mirk47.bsky.social, who also mentioned this: I thought of those tropes, but I believe that Hugo Zietz, the founder of the company ("Orientalische Tabak- & Cigarettenfabrik Yenidze") that produced these cigarettes, [...]

120