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Workshop: Fever - Global Histories of Disease, 1750-1840
We are excited to announce the workshop “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840” (programme below), which will take place on 10 and 11 July 2025 at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Karlstraße 4, 69117 Heidelberg.
Hosted by the ERC CoG Project FEVER based at Heidelberg University, this workshop seeks to bring together historians interested in fever(s), widely considered the period’s most common and fatal ailment, in societies within or tied to the Atlantic world.
If you would like to join us, register at: fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de.
Programme
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Tabelle
10:00 | Arrival, coffee & welcome |
10:15 | Opening & Introduction (Stefanie Gänger, Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, and Jenny Sure) |
10:30–13:00 | Panel I: Fevers and Difference |
Kevin Siena (Trent University) Fevered Formations: How fever contributed to formulations of race, class and heredity in the eighteenth century | |
Adam Warren (University of Washington) Fevers, Epidemics, and Medical Geography in Early Nineteenth-Century Peru | |
Teresa Göltl (Heidelberg University) Managing Fever(s): Slavery and Medical Practices in the Caribbean (1820–1848) | |
13:00–14:30 | Lunch Break |
14:30–17:00 | Panel II: Causation |
Margaret DeLacy (NW New York) John Clark, contagion, and the Newcastle Fever Hospital debates | |
Ricardo Cabral Freitas (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) A torrid court in the tropics: fevers and tropical climate in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 | |
Jenny Sure (Heidelberg University) “Von Schrecken, Furcht und Sorge werden alle Natürliche Bewegungen stockigt“. The Passions as Cause, Sign and Remedy of Fever |
FRIDAY, 11 JULY 2025
Tabelle
9:00–11:30 | Panel III: Temporality |
Alexander Wragge-Morley (University of Lancaster) Fever, Periodicity and Habit in 18th Century Europe | |
Philippa Carter (University of Cambridge) The death of a diagnosis: phrenitis, c. 1750–1840 | |
Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg University) On Obstinate Fevers and Lingering Ailments, ca. 1750–1830 | |
12:00 | Snack break |
12:15–14:45 | Panel IV: Society |
Christopher Hamlin (University of Notre Dame) Afebrility as a Human Right in Dublin, 1800-1830 | |
Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford) Fever and the dead body in England, 1750-1800 | |
Yijie Huang (Heidelberg University) Febrile undercurrents between Britain and China, c. 1790-1850 | |
15:00–15:30 | Concluding remarks |
