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Lezing Nona Vinken – “Een podium voor de verpleegkunde.” 50 jaar Week van de Verpleegkunde (1975-2024)”
BrusselDe werkgroep geschiedenis NETWERK VERPLEEGKUNDE organiseert een lezing met als thema: 50 jaar de Week van de Verpleegkunde. Historica Nona Vinken zal de voornaamste resultaten toelichten van haar masterscriptie: "Een podium voor de verpleegkunde." 50 jaar Week van de Verpleegkunde (1975-2024), waarmee ze vorig academiejaar met grootste onderscheiding afstudeerde aan de KU Leuven. De lezing…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Talking Trash — The Rise of Throwaway Medical Culture in the Age of Plastics by Bruno Strasser
Leuven/OnlineTalking Trash: The Rise of Throwaway Medical Culture in the Age of Plastics In the 1950s, Western medicine began to embrace single-use medical devices such as masks, gloves, syringes, and catheters. Within just two decades, this “throwaway” culture, rooted in the modernist appeal of plastics, transformed hospital care. It took the COVID-19 pandemic for the…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Anthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar by Samuël Coghe
Leuven/OnlineAnthrax Management at the Cattle Frontier: Local Knowledge, Imperial Technopolitics and Transimperial Exchanges in Colonial Madagascar In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Madagascar became an important exporter of live cattle and cattle commodities such as hides and beef. While this process started before French colonial conquest in 1895, the cattle frontier was fuelled…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Everyone Needs Beauty by Samantha Walton
Leuven/OnlineEveryone Needs Beauty TBA Samantha Walton Samantha Walton is Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, where she leads interdisciplinary collaborations across the social and life sciences, arts and humanities, and law. Her research focuses on the intersections of environment and health, with particular interests in nature and wellbeing legislation,…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: “Anyone, regardless of birth or social status, can become a Scout. There are already some deaf Scouts” – Nature and Disability through the Lens of the Scout Camp in 1950s Sweden by Jonathan Schlunck
Leuven/Online“Anyone, regardless of birth or social status, can become a Scout. There are already some deaf Scouts” – Nature and Disability through the lens of the scout camp in 1950s Sweden The way we think about nature often has little in common with the space itself. Instead, our ideas are deeply rooted in cultural assumptions…
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KU Lecture Series: What Makes Nature Restorative? Evidence, Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward by Yannick Joye
Leuven/OnlineWhat Makes Nature Restorative? Evidence, Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward Over the past three decades, psychological research on the health benefits of contact with nature has grown rapidly, documenting positive effects on people’s mood, cognitive performance and general well-being—phenomena commonly referred to as “restorative” nature experiences. In this lecture, we take a deep and critical…
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KULeuven Lecture Series: Thinking with Microbes by Kristien Hens
Leuven/OnlineThinking with Microbes What can we learn from thinking with microbes about ourselves, about life, health, sex and death? Microbial life, vast, diverse and largely invisible unsettles familiar concepts such as individuality and agency. What does it mean that humans can be conceived of as multispecies collectives, shaped by billions of microbial partners that influence…