conference reports

Dear Readers:

Our colleagues at H-CivWar have been publishing a series of informative reports on sessions from the 2018 Southern Historical Association annual meeting that include subjects germane to our period.  You can bookmark the list of them in your MyHNet or browser and keep track as they continue to show up.

Peter

Regine Criser & Susanne Rinner

GSA 2017 Conference Report

Seminar: Stranger Things—Constructing Difference in German Culture

The establishment of European colonial rule on the African continent not only involved the colonization of nature, but essentially meant colonization through nature. But in how far did decolonization across Africa south of the Sahara equally affect the sphere of ecology and relationships between humans and wildlife? Have Africa’s wild animals ever been decolonized?

How has the hospital note changed from being handwritten on paper to typed on a computer? Is it possible to perform talk therapy with a video camera? Do external devices remind wearers to enact healthful behaviors or enable them to forget? These are some of the questions raised at the Media Medica: Medicine & the Challenge of New Media conference held at Johns Hopkins October 27-28, 2017. Jeremy Greene and Gianna Pomata organized this international meeting to explore the triangulation of media, genre, and technology.