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Lezing Mieneke te Hennepe: (On)gezien, ontkleed, ontleed: Anatomie van de vrouw.
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden17 oktober 2025, 17:00 Foyer Rijksmuseum Boerhaave In deze lezing bespreekt conservator Mieneke te Hennepe de fascinerende wereld van anatomische modellen en prenten van het vrouwelijk lichaam. Wat weten we eigenlijk over ontledingen van vrouwen? Wat weten we eigenlijk over ontledingen van vrouwen? En hoe werd het vrouwelijke naakt gezien binnen de anatomie? Mieneke laat…
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Lezing Chris Vlam: Voor allen, door allen! Over de opkomst van de kruisverenigingen in Noord-Holland en Utrecht
UtrechtLezing: Voor allen, door allen! Voor allen, door allen! Hoe groeiden lokale initiatieven uit tot een netwerk dat zorg bereikbaar maakte voor iedereen? Historicus Chris Vlam vertelt over de opkomst van de kruisverenigingen in Noord-Holland en Utrecht tussen 1875 en 1945. Ze neemt je mee in een verhaal over samenwerking, solidariteit en de impact op…
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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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Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration ((online) talk)
London/OnlineThursday 5 March 2026, 5 – 8pm (talks and online event from 6pm) Book to attend in person or online here. Join the Royal College of Nursing for the launch of a new exhibition exploring stories of migration in the history of nursing. From the colonial legacy of missionary nurses in the nineteenth century to 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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Lecture: From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property
LeidenLECTURE | GLOBAL HISTORIES OF KNOWLEDGE SEMINAR | LEIDEN UNIVERSITY From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property Natacha Klein Käfer (University of Copenhagen / Lund University) Date: Friday 20 March 2026 Time 15:30 - 17:00 Series Global Histories of Knowledge 2025 - 2026 Location: Leiden University, Johan Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16,…
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Lecture: Southeast Asia as method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?)
IIAS, LeidenLecture organised by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Leiden University Institute for History. Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 15:00 ~ 16:30 Location: Leiden University, IIAS Conference Room HMO 0.28, Witte Singel 27a, 2311BG Leiden Measles is “back”. But is vaccine hesitancy the only culprit? Looking at Southeast Asia and mobilising the…
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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…