Christos Lynteris

So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

Looking forward to the first event of the Decolonising Plant Knowledge network tomorrow: Thinking Through Plants: ‘Rao’, the pharmakon and futurities of indigenous knowledge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/52161/

New call for applications: RHS Workshop Grants, 2027, supporting day meetings of historians to plan and pursue a project bit.ly/48hkJrD The Society now invites applications for 6 Workshop Grants of £1000 each to support group activities and networking. Closing date: 15 January 2027 #Skystorians

Looking forward to speaking about zoonoses at the launch of this wonderful exhibition www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition...

Next week, on November 4, Jennifer Tucker will be visiting @standrewsanthro.bsky.social for a screening of the documentary One Morning in Buffalo (School II, 15:00-17:00, no registration needed).

Director emerita Lorraine Daston in conversation with @histphilosophy.bsky.social​ on the first episode of “Pages of History.” They discuss the surprising parallels between #Philology & #Astronomy, & why philology is one of humanity’s oldest empirical sciences. 📜 🔗 https://bit.ly/4k4GP7K #HistSci

Bird flu outbreak at Utah mink farm sparks concerns about government response www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Prix Félicitations à Gildas Salmon, philosophe au LIER-FYT, qui a reçu le prix Fondation Martine Aublet 2026 pour son livre "L’Empire de la supervision. Capture des savoirs et gouvernement colonial dans l’Inde britannique". 👉 lier-fyt.ehess.fr/publication/...

En 1827, l'ingénieur Nicéphore Niépce réalisait "Le Point de vue du Gras", première photographie (re)connu. La célébration nationale du Bicentenaire de la photographie scande toute l'année 2026-2027 à travers de nombreuses manifestations www.lhistoire.fr/exposition/l...

Nicholas Mulder, "Total Historian" - on Marc Bloch www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-...

Anne-Sophie Pimpaud - Nécropsies et anatomie pathologique en Europe au début de l'époque moderne (1500-1761) À paraître chez Champion

La 2e année du séminaire "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes", que j'anime avec Raphaël Morera à l'@ehess.fr, débute le 3 novembre. Je vous en partage ici le programme. Vous êtes bien sûr les bienvenu.e.s ! Infos : enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue... @crh.ehess.fr

Carlo Ginzburg on his Life’s Work and the Writing of History - conversation with Emmanuelle Saada, 13 November 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mfw...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) on a mink farm in Utah, US. Interesting comment by mink farm owner: "The mink are routinely fed raw organs of livestock, including cows [bird flu also occurs in dairy cows in the US]." See also recent opinion paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“It’s another reminder that you have to be really careful with predictions about how viruses that are introduced into new areas will behave,” Beer says. 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

European CDC announced the first case of shamonda virus in a human. This is a zoonotic virus transmitted by midges that circulates in livestock. It was first identified in 1965. It's unclear if the infection contributed to the demise of the patient. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

Many thanks to the librarians and archivists of the Bibliothèque de l'Académie nationale de médecine, BIU Santé Médecine & @labnf.bsky.social for their wonderful help with research on the Zoonosis Before Bacteriology project this week

The Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds Network are back this academic year with a programme of fascinating events that aim to expand awareness of multiple perspectives on plant-human relationships worldwide Find out more at https://bit.ly/4sSuuG2

Ebola : l’Afrique confrontée à une situation « plus complexe » après la propagation du virus au Nigeria, s’alarme le directeur régional de l’OMS

An important contribution to veterinary anthropology by Caroline Mburu @medanthropology.bsky.social "Life in the Veterinary Margins; Trust, Veterinization, and Antibiotics in South-Central Tanzania" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a word, "badly". A system devised 'to stamp out pockets of “poor-quality” provision' will cost institutions millions of pounds in staff time and financial expenditure. This money and time could instead be spent at the great majority of providers delivering high calibre teaching and research.

Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case as regional outbreak spreads reut.rs/4zFFXuP

This is not the news I wanted to read today. It is clear that the uncontrolled outbreak in the DRC is not tenable and we will continue to see imported cases outside of the DRC. Kenya and now Nigeria. This is a regional/ global emergency. www.wsls.com/health/2026/...

UK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry finds

Pourquoi le rat est-il associé à la peste ? L'université de St Andrews a mené un projet de recherche de 2019 à 2025. Le point sur la question. www.lhistoire.fr/%C2%AB-pas-d...

'The Battle of Algiers' at 60 Film & conference 5-7 Nov St John's College & Picturehouse https://bit.ly/4gA17V6 Our event will look at this important film from different angles, disciplines and points of view, analysing how it can be seen, interpreted, and discussed in the 21st century

Applications now invited to join the editorial boards of two @royalhistsoc.org publications: our journal 'Transactions' and the 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians bit.ly/47rl76A Closing date: Monday 4 December 2026 #Skystorians

On Foucault's 100th birthday I shared some of the publications timed to coincide with the anniversary - in the linked thread or this post - progressivegeographies.com/2026/10/15/t... Here are a few more -

The Humanities at Risk: A Statement from the Scottish Society for Northern Studies The Society expresses deep concerns about ongoing university cuts to research, teaching, and engagement in Hums and Social Sciences - sounding the alarm about long-term consequences and losses to Scottish and UK HE

A great exhibition @quaibranly.bsky.social which among other things has a section on colonial epidemics, with contemporary First Nations art commemorating the victims of smallpox in particular

History of Medicine Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2026 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/semi... #histSTM #histmed

And second, a call for 2 PhD Fellowships for 2027-28 to support completion of a doctorate and based @ihr.bsky.social. Applications now invited bit.ly/4ymCy37 and open to all, prior to the closing date of 31 Jan 2027 #Skystorians

Le film de Jacques Panijel "Octobre à Paris" sur la répression de la manifestation des Algériens à Paris en 1962 ressort en salle. Le 22 octobre à 20h30 projection avec L'Histoire au cinéma Reflet Médicis suivie d’une rencontre avec l’historien Laurent Véray. www.lhistoire.fr/cin%C3%A9ma/...

Forthcoming next year - Michel Foucault, The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”: Graduate Thesis in Philosophy, 1949 – ed. Christophe Bouton, trans. Emilio E. Feijóo, @uchicagopress.bsky.social, August 2027 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

À 16h sur @franceculture.fr Sciences Chrono fait retour sur l'émergence de la démarche expérimentale au XVIIe siècle. En documentant la physiologie des caméléons de Tunis, Nicolas Peiresc remet en cause le dogme antique. Comment cet épisode éclaire-t-il la fabrique de l'histoire naturelle ?

Looking forward to visiting the new exhibition at La Maison des Mondes Africains on Amílcar Cabral mansa.fr/en/evenement...

Yesterday @ihr.bsky.social launched a wide range of funding opportunities for historians. They include, with @royalhistsoc.org, calls for 2x Applied History Fellowships, 2027 and 2x PhD Fellowships for 2027-28. Full details of these and other current RHS calls: bit.ly/4Bfjsic #Skystorians

PEOPLE!!!! I’ve been sent the draft of my front cover!!!!

Looking forward to this roundtable on 12 years since the publication of the special issue of Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident on epidemics in East Asia, with Florence Bretelle Establet @fredkeck.bsky.social Ken Daimaru & Jean Corbi reflecting on what has changed since www.crcao.fr/2026/09/25/n...

Cent ans après sa naissance, Foucault continue de circuler dans nos débats contemporains. Son œuvre n'est pourtant pas un mode d'emploi du présent : elle nous apprend plutôt à nous méfier des évidences et à regarder autrement ce qui nous paraît naturel. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/MnR

Today is the 100th anniversary of Foucault's birth. A lot of publications and events have been timed to coincide with this. Here are a few.

L’animal sous tous les regards La semaine prochaine, notre colloque de rentrée explorera les relations avec les animaux:
-14 octobre: dialogue entre Florence Burgat et la Pr Claudine Tiercelin. -15-16 octobre: conférences sur intelligence animale, cohabitation, éthique et droit. tinyurl.com/2p622pbc

Avec Mathieu Potte Bonneville, auteur de la BD "Foucault. Vies parallèles". www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

A big thanks to the librarians and archivists of the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse and the Bibliothèque d'Etude et du Patrimoine for their help with research for the Zoonosis Before Bacteriology project!

Fenlands, Herbarium Collections, and Botanical Illustration at Cambridge. New blogpost by Camila Alday Mamani, Hosted Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/fenland... @cuherb.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social

🌟Parution aux presses @sciencespo.bsky.social 📕❗Jacques Rancière, Le Philosophe et l'archive❗ 🫂Vianney Griffaton, Samuel Hayat (eds.) ✍️D.Cohen, A. Farge @crh.ehess.fr , G. Fraisse @cral.ehess.fr, M. Perrot @ehess.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social ▶️ www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?gco...

Check out this excellent opportunity for a funded #PhD on a fascinating & challenging topic #Political Ecology #Zoonoses #EnvHums