Rebecka Klette

Swedish @Wellcometrust PhD-student #histpsych #histSTM @BirkbeckHCA, researching Scandinavian degeneration theory, 1880-1922. Stammerer/Dramatic Pauser. She/Her

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Rebecka Klette @RebeckaKlette]

@slobogin I’d love a copy, this sounds fascinating!

[Christine Slobogin @slobogin]

New article!
"Hidden in Plain Sight: The Covering of Patients' Eyes and a Microethics of Medical Photography"
This article is really the first foray into my second book project: a history of anonymity in medical photography.
Let me know if you'd like a PDF
https://t.co/PyV8S7pNHd

[Johan Östling @ostling_j]

Today, we received the second proofs of our yearbook “History of Intellectual Culture” (@dg_history). Just a few more minor steps and @CharlotteLerg, @DrJanaWeiss and I as editors are ready to let it go to print. Publication later this autumn.

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

"When I learned that I had been sterilized … I was devastated. … I would be marked by the stigma of inferiority for the rest of my life."—Dorothea Buck

Dorothea was among 400,000 Germans sterilized under a Nazi law, passed in July 1933, targeting people with disabilities.

[History of Medicine @HistmedHHU]

Yvonne Gavallér hat heute ihre Dissertation zum Thema "Wissenschaftstransfer zwischen Deutschland und Schweden anhand des Beispiels der Neurasthenie 1880-1920" erfolgreich verteidigt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The term 'New Woman' was first stated by Irish writer Sarah Grand, late 19thc, relating to a growing number of independent women, including those calling for social change. This 1897 image shows a woman wearing the knickerbockers while a man in a dress cleans #WomensHistoryMonth

[Cambridge History of Memory and Emotions Workshop @HistMemEmo]

Thrilled to share with you our 2024 Call for Papers. Master's and PhD students researching the history of memory or emotions during any time or place in history are welcome. Deadline to email abstracts is 7 January 2024.

Please Like and Repost to help us share this invitation!

[Ana Parejo Vadillo @aipv2010]

Another brilliant piece about Ukraine's invasion by @sasha_weirdsley at the @nytimes. No pasarán!

[Johan Östling @ostling_j]

Reading proofs of “The History of Knowledge” (@CambridgeUP).

@DLHeidenblad's and my new book is due to be published in December. Open access and print.

[Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) @nhknowledge]

BOOK LAUNCH:

LUCK’s first seminar this semester takes place on 18 September, 13.15–14.30 (CEST), and is a digital book launch of “Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History”. Welcome to join us!

https://t.co/Tkl7qKxCje

[19_Birkbeck @19_birkbeck]

From our archives Karen Chase's 2014 article looks to give the fidget its due and to initiate more scholarly conversation on the circle of issues that it generates: mind and body, subjects and objects, textual continuity and its disruptions: https://t.co/bYJTzqpxNo

[Penelope Anthias @PenelopeAnthias]

The salary of a PhD student in many European countries is now higher than the typical starting salary of a UK lecturer, with a postdoc in Europe often surpassing a UK lecturer salary. Meanwhile, some top UK depts now require a published monograph for entry-level positions (1/2)

[Alternative Healers 1834-1948 @healers18341948]

We are now advertising for a 2-year postdoctoral researcher to work on the project! Details here: https://t.co/v7B67hBqNI

[rcpsychReads @rcpsychReads]

Learning from a dark past: how exploring the history of eugenics in psychiatry might help to promote safe and ethical practice in the profession today.

Check out the article in Insight about our recent exhibition with @mariusturda

[Marius Turda @mariusturda]

The last issue of #Insight highlights the launch of the @rcpsych's most ambitious and far-reaching equality & inclusion work to date: Act against Racism campaign. To have the exhibition on the legacies of #eugenics featured here as well it's just amazing!
https://t.co/VE7o1rwg3L

[Anti-Racist Alliance Trust @ARATrustUK]

"In Britain after 1900, there was a rise in calls for the sterilisation, institutionalisation, and segregation of those considered to have undesirable psychological traits, which eugenicists believed were hereditary."

[Birkbeck, University of London @BirkbeckUoL]

Prof Matt Cook celebrates #PrideMonth & his recent appointment as the UK’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history at Oxford! He shares his thoughts on his 18-year tenure at Birkbeck, celebrating how studies of queer history have evolved over this time: https://t.co/CBys5ByglC

[Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters @shme_bbk]

'Celebrating Joanna Bourke' on 10 July 18:00. In person tix sold out, but you can still book to watch online. @bourke_joanna @GreshamCollege @BirkbeckHCA #twitterstorians
https://t.co/KVIyllFLrp

[Dr Laura Eastlake @VictorianMasc]

I am a slow writer. And today it's even worse because I've happened across H. Erichsen's 'Methods of Authors' (1894) which describes the (vastly mythologised) writing habits of other authors. A morbidly fascinating thread #SlowWriterSolidarity #amwriting 1/-