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Summer term 2026 FEVER lecture series
The History Department at Heidelberg University kindly invites everyone to attend a series of lectures related to the ERC project FEVER, led by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gänger. The events will take place online and in person at the Lecture Hall of the History Department (Grabengasse 3-5, 69117 Heidelberg).
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20 April 2026, 16:15-17:45 | Sue Peabody (Washington): Book discussion -- Madeleine’s children. Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in the Indian Ocean Colonies |
4 May 2026, 16:15-17:45 | Nicole Colaianni (Heidelberg): Transatlantic Healing: Scottish Medical Education and the Making of American Medicine in the early Republic |
11 May 2026, 16:15-17:45 | Stefan Lüder (Heidelberg): VEGA: Volcanoes as Environmental and Global Actors - A Multispecies Environmental History of Tambora in the Central Himalayas |
1 June 2026, 16:15-17:45 | Lea-Marie Trigilia (Heidelberg): “A Singular and Novel Malady”: Towards a History of Dengue Fever, ca. 1780–1860 |
8 June 2026, 16:15-17:45 | María José Correa Gómez (Santiago de Chile): Selling the Mountain: Thermalism and the Making of the Thermal Andes into a Therapeutic Commodity, Chile, 1850–1920 |
15 June 2026, 16:15-17:45 | Annika Raapke (Uppsala): Blut, Schweiß und Briefe: Fieber in der französischen und schwedischen Karibik, 1778-1826 |
6 July 2026, 16:15-17:45 | Dirk Modler (Bochum): Anleitung, wie man sich bei dem ansteckenden Lazarettfieber zu verhalten habe" - Seuchenbekämpfung während des Ersten Koalitionskrieges (1792-1797) |