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A fascinating research seminar from @lotysz on #health #ideology and #media in North Korea, discussing research on Polish doctors in Korea, Korean orphans in Poland & allegations of germ warfare represented by satirical cartoons which often demonised an ‘evil science’ test tube🧪

Interesting historic ideas which conflated disease and violence raised by Sophie Franklin as well as ideas of ‘epidemics’ of crime and violence

From influenza to parasites to #COVID19, the Media and Epidemics blog posts explore a range of ways in which discourses of #disease have been represented in media and literature from the nineteenth century to now. You can read them all here: mediaepidemics.com/blog/ #histmed #hstm

We’re delighted that the Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN ‘Making Science Public’ blog run by Prof Brigitte Nerlich has reposted our Media and Epidemics post by Susan Sudbury on gendered responses to sickness at the fin de siècle: blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencep…

Today UK Health Security Agency published a new priority pathogen reference tool to monitor and prioritise the 24 infectious diseases which pose the greatest threat to UK #publichealth ⬇️🦠

Considering my research on historic #influenza epidemics for Media and Epidemics, the launch of the @ukhsa Priority Pathogen tool is essential preparation as (prior to #COVID19) the UK had been planning for an influenza (not coronavirus) pandemic so a broader watchlist is key! ⬇️🦠

The Principal Investigator of our UK branch of the Media and Epidemics project Melissa Dickson is the opening speaker for this free online event. Register below ⬇️

Have you visited the open-access Media and Epidemics project blog? We cover pandemics to parasites to examine how epidemic disease narratives have been shaped by media, literature, and politics from the late 19C to today. Visit here: mediaepidemics.com/blog/page/2/ #histmed #hstm #litsci

Keep an eye out for Media and Epidemics research presentations at a range of global conferences this summer

📢 Registration for the CHANSE Final Conference is now open! 📍Kraków | 8–9 Sept 2025 🔗 chanse.org/chanse-final-c… #EUCHANSE #WeAreCHANSE

Join our next Media and Epidemics research seminar on Tuesday 6th May at 10am (Central European Time) when Magdalena Zdrodowska will discuss ‘The Mediated Practices and Narratives of Care: Artists and Activists Under Lockdown’ about #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies. Scan QR code for link

You can read the latest Media and Epidemics blog post from Dr Tom White here. White discusses linguistics and conceptual #metaphortheory in the context of the #COVID19 pandemic: mediaepidemics.com/2025/04/28/whe…

Thank you to Media and Epidemics for publishing my piece about Covid, metaphor, and artistic, metaphorically charged responses to illness. So many interesting pieces on their blog!

Our UK Team Principal Investigator Melissa Dickson has opened today’s CNCSI conference on Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century with an examination of the ‘influenza fiend’, epidemic diseases of the 1890s, & the looming presence of influenza in Dracula #litsci

In our latest Media and Epidemics research seminar, Magdalena Zdrodowska discusses #lockdown art and portraiture, #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies to examine the concept of ‘shrinkage’ in terms of socio-cultural environments during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Media and Epidemics UK team Dr Emily Vincent (dremilyvincent.bsky.social) and Melissa Dickson are presenting their research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century influenza epidemics today and tomorrow at the The BSLS online conference #BSLS2025

Register for our free in-person interdisciplinary event on Disease and Narrative School of EDACS College of Arts+Law on 18th June 5pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/disease-and-…

You can visit our blog page below for many #openaccess posts about #medhums #histmed #litsci all focused around epidemic disease and media from the nineteenth century to now ⬇️