Professor of Social & Economic History; University of Groningen #GlobalDemography #Histmed #Histnursing #HealthHumanities #Africa #Suriname
Joined March 2010
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Wat hebben katholieke missionarissen te maken met bevolkingsgroei? nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/de-n… via @nporadio1
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Congratulations to one of our #STIASFellows2025 Siphiwe Ndlovu on winning the Best International Fiction Prize at the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair 🙌🏼
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Tonight we are at the @StellenboschUni Chancellor’s Public Lecture with literature #NobelLaureates JM Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Stefan Helgesson. #NobelinAfrica2025
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2 Nov 2025
Stop the Closure of Irma Stern Museum - Sign the Petition! c.org/ywwmmZBcFw via @Change
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28 Jan 2025
Final reminder of the call for papers for this workshop. We are also grateful to have received funding from the @EcHistSoc to cover accommodation costs for a couple of PhD students without other funding. Please send us your abstracts!
12 Dec 2024
CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South
CFP Deadline 3 February 2025
Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE
Organised by myself and @NJCummins
Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group @LSEEcHist
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14 Nov 2024
📢 I am thrilled to announce the publication of our special issue in @hisfam_journal on “The Quest for a Partner in the Past and Today,” co-edited with my wonderful colleague @paul_puschmann. Check it out here: tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/2… 💟📰💍
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5 Nov 2024
Nobody says it better than Michelle. Watch this – and then make sure you’re ready to vote tomorrow: IWillVote.com
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17 Sep 2024
Ik ben heel erg blij dat de Raad van Bestuur van het @UMCUtrecht heeft besloten onderzoek te doen naar de medische geschiedenis van het koloniaal verleden, in het bijzonder in 🇸🇷&🇮🇩 .
Er is nu een vacature voor een #postdoc. Voor meer informatie 👇
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20 Aug 2024
Staat de Wereld op de Rand van een Bevolkingscrisis?.
Volgens Elon Musk stevent de wereld af op een "population collapse ". @frankleeman van @BNR ging dit fact checken en ik mocht daarop reageren.
bnr.nl/podcast/factgurus/105… #BNR
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8 Jun 2024
Vanuit historisch perspectief is dit nog maar een heel recent fenomeen @DeGelderlander
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20 May 2024
👀PhD Opportunities in History of Africa @unito!
Join our dynamic research community and contribute to groundbreaking work!
📅 Apply by 20 June 2024 h. 12
🔗 dottorato.unito.it/do/home.p…
#PhD #AfricanHistory #AcademicOpportunities #HistoryResearch
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Discussing David Sabean's magnus opus "A Delicate Choreography" (3 volumes, more than 1000 pages) with a diverse group of social historians. Interesting discussions on e.g. kinship,l relations, conflict and power, and the use of literature as a historical source @IFK_Vienna
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📣 You know what? Q1! 👇 We are waiting for your manuscripts! Thank you to all our authors and sponsors! @paul_puschmann @PujadasJoana
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13 Mar 2024
The next talk in the Groningen Centre for Health Humanities seminar series is by me. "English Flesh bears Operations better than French Flesh': Resilience, Degeneration and Race in Crimean War Surgery." 16:00 Dutch time, Monday 18 March. Link:
meet.google.com/smd-nkhv-xcd
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13 Mar 2024
CfP for a session on "Health(care) and demography in African history" at the @ESSHC2025 in Leiden.
Thanks for sending your abstract to @DinosSevdalakis or further spreading this call!
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11 Mar 2024
Boerderij Pollux bij Zuurdijk, Groningen, 1944 - Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945)
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1 Mar 2024
De wagen in het bos, Chassidische Legenden II, 1942 - Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945)
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19 Feb 2024
The EU-funded project WomatWork invites applications for research and fieldwork grants aimed to support Master students, PhDs and Postdocs interested in the history of working women of popular classes in Africa (1920-1970).
Please, share widely!
womatwork.hypotheses.org/sum…
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