Bernhard Leitner

Sie promovieren zu einem Thema mit Japanbezug und suchen ein #Stipendium für einen 3-12monatigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Japan? Dann sind die attraktiven Japan-Stipendien des DIJ Tokyo vielleicht genau das Richtige! Bewerbungsfrist: 20.11. ▶️Ausschreibung karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/2...

Monday at Seoul National University

Missed our International Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia organized by @daneuhaus.bsky.social @bmleitner.bsky.social & Nicolas Schillinger? A report and photos are now available on our website www.dijtokyo.org/event/entang...

Monday, 10/12, at SNU

Thank you to all speakers and the audience for the stimulating papers and engaging discussion. Full programme and details ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/entang...

Day 2 of our Int'l Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia with papers by @jdimoia.bsky.social @daneuhaus.bsky.social @nadinhee.bsky.social, Sabine Frühstück, Nicolas Schillinger, Hoi-eun Kim, @bmleitner.bsky.social, Akihito Suzuki

Great start to our Int'l Symposium Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science & Technology in Transwar East Asia, organised by @daneuhaus.bsky.social @bmleitner.bsky.social & N. Schillinger, with papers by Jin-kyung Park, Akira Hashimoto, Jaehwan Hyun, Ping-Heng Chen, Harry Yi-Jui Wu

International Symposium "Entangled Trajectories of Modernization: Medicine, Science, and Technology in Transwar East Asia" 📍 @ DIJ Tokyo & online 🗓️ 17-18 Sept 2026 ℹ️ Programme & registration details www.dijtokyo.org/event/entang... Supported by Toshiba International Foundation & DWIH Tokyo (1/2)

Thanks @bmleitner.bsky.social for the excellent interview we did about the life and career of Ignaz Semmelweiss for The Greatest Doctors Podcast: Episode 2 open.spotify.com/episode/6Dei... Short clip below. More clips coming soon 🚀

Pressing article on the ongoing postcolonial legacy of the colonial slur "londo ireng" (black Dutchmen) in Indonesia!

Here we go: ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting 2026! #histsci #Edinburgh

next week at SNU:

New archive unlocked! Great to be back in the wonderful city of Taipei and at Academia Sinica for the first time, conducting archive research on neuropsychiatric treatment methods in colonial and postcolonial Taiwan. #histmed #histpsy #neuro #taiwan #transwar

#ScienceLectures: Wahnvorstellungen und Halluzinationen sind typische Symptome der #Schizophrenie. Weniger bekannt sind jedoch Negativsymptome. 🧠 ▶️ „Die stille Seite der Schizophrenie" mit Matthäus Willeit @meduniwien.ac.at 📆: 28.05., 18:00h 📌: VHS Wiener Urania www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

Next week!

The feedback from Claude AI we're all striving for: "It's perfectly phrased — friendly, concise, and ends with a clear actionable question. No changes needed." I am pleased. 😌

Editor-in-Chief Eric Engstrom has recently announced a relaunch of the History of Psychiatry journal with a new title, scope, and look. Exciting news for anyone working in #histpsy #histmed #histsci #history Check out what's changed: journals.sagepub.com/home/hpy

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi–Walt Disney’s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made

Nearly 40 years after Freddie sang it in Budapest

I just prepared a presentation on possession and exorcism for a seminar in medical history and the file has exactly 6,66mb!

Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931)

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More

Well, at least that settles the famous argument of Chomsky and Foucault. Although Foucault was no saint, he at least got it right that the idea of justice is discursive and embedded in power relations. I guess Chomsky's universal human values do not hold up... #Chomsky #Epstein #Foucault

There is a new clinical trial that is recruiting for vulvodynia. This is a woefully under-researched aspect of women's care. Please help me spread the word. vajenda.substack.com/p/vulvodynia...

Internat'l Conference "Southeast Asia & Indo-Pacific Imaginaries" with two DIJ panels incl papers on Japanese-Indian Relations (David M. Malitz) & Japan’s Educational Aid Programs @daneuhaus.bsky.social 📅 29–30 Jan 2026, Nat'l Museum of the Philippines, Iloilo ▶️ indopacificimaginaries.wordpress.com

Unser #Gehirn ist faszinierend und sehr komplex. Neurowissenschaftler bringen mit dem Projekt „From Brain to Mind“ kognitive Neurowissenschaften der Öffentlichkeit via Podcast und Dokumentarfilm verständlich näher. @unisalzburg.bsky.social #scilog 🧠 scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/komp...

Der #FWF beteiligt sich an zwei neuen Europäischen Partnerschaften zur Forschung zu #Hirngesundheit und #Pandemievorsorge: Im Fokus von "BrainHealth" stehen neurologische und psychische Erkrankungen und "BE READY" soll auf zukünftige Pandemien vorbereiten. 🧠🦠 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

Join our next #DIJStudyGroup "Haga Yaichi and the Kokuminsei jūron: A Fragmentary Imagination of National Identity" with Alberto Zizza (LMU Munich/DIJ) who will discuss identity & self-imagination in prewar Japan 📅 Feb 5, 2026 / 6.30pm JST/10.30am CET 🏚️ online & DIJ www.dijtokyo.org/event/haga-y...

"Imagining a Gender Equal World: Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women and Girls through International Partnerships" 11. Februar 2026 • 10:30 - 14:30 Be there or be square!

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Something I didn't think I'd ever see: Japanese PM Takaichi and South Korean President Lee playing the drums together 😯

Against the historical backdrop of Japan's expansion in the pseudo-state of "Manchukuo," Colonial Surveillance invites readers to delve into the genealogy of identification systems, and the colonial roots of the surveillance technologies that saturate our digital lives https://ow.ly/uPsQ50XS9R5

Gov. Pritzker: "They want you to question what your eyes and ears are telling you. It is unimaginable to think this can happen in our country or that when it does happen the government immediately tries to cover it up. It should anger you." #3E #endImpunity #ReneeGood #JusticeforGood #GoodVsEvil

CCC ftw!

I think there is a genuinely interesting question here: why is phrenology so damn popular? People seem to reinvent it constantly.

How were emerging medical disciplines and transnational networks connected to colonial racism in 20th c. East Asia? Dive into my new #OpenAccess article, "Neurologically Speaking: Racial Science and Medicine at Keijō Imperial University" #HistSci #HistMed #EastAsia doi.org/10.1163/2666...

“Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”“ www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...