Submit your abstract now for an upcoming workshop organised by our seed funding fellow, the Centre for Population Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca!
Bringing together scholars from social and medical history, as well as historical demography, the workshop represents a unique opportunity to reflect on how local, micro-historical processes played into macro-level factors such as urban planning and overarching medical discourses, and how these connected urban housing with health in East-Central and Southeastern Europe between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
How was the relationship between urban living space, epidemic spread and healthcare provision articulated in specific milieus in East-Central and Southeastern Europe? How did the question of “comfort” (including furnishings, room size, ventilation and lighting) play into the medicalisation of living space? What role did the military play in the reconfiguration of the urban living space? And how did evolving understandings of disease affect those existing in legal grey areas, such as tenants?
Abstracts are invited to address such questions and many more. Full info can be found at: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20030585/cfp-living-and-dying-together-urban-housing-health-east-central-and
Submissions are to be sent to Dr Oana Sorescu-Iudean at oana.sorescu-iudean@ubbcluj.ro or oana.sorescu@gmail.com by the deadline of 1st June 2024.