News


Occasional updates about projects, publications and talks in which I or my collaborators are involved.

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NEW PUBLICATION


Drafts of history: the world in newspapers on a single day.

A visual catalogue of an international newspaper archive created in 1888 to mark the demise of Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany. Edited by Vaibhav Singh, with an introduction by Amelia Bonea

SHOT’S INAUGURAL MERCURIANS PRIZE


Amelia Bonea wins the inaugural Mercurians Prize of the Society for the History of Technology for her paper “‘Contagion by Telephone’: Print Media and Knowledge about Infectious Diseases in Britain, 1880s–1914,” Technology and Culture 62, 4, (2021), 1063-1086.

BBC Future

INDIA’S FOSSIL HERITAGE


A BBC Future interview on India’s fossil heritage, also featuring DFG collaborators Prof. Ashok Sahni and Dr. Advait Jukar.


Online lecture and tutorial on media, communication technologies and infectious diseases.

Joint Keynote Lecture

BIAS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD WORKSHOP


Online workshop on diversifying and decolonising the history of palaeontology at the University of Leeds.

Skeleton of the Missouri Leviathan: the skeleton is shown standing in a pastoral setting, with a Native American shown seated on an elephant to indicate scale, while another Native American and a man in Western dress look on. Watercolour, possibly by G. Tytler, ca. 1842.
(Wellcome Images)

4A Lab Seminar

FOSSIL HISTORIES


Online workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence

Birbal Sahni’s reconstruction of Williamsonia sewardiana, found in the Rajmahal Hills, India. Image modified from the original illustration, published in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, vol. XX, no. 3 “Palaeontologia Indica” (Calcutta, 1932).
Photo courtesy of Prof. Ashok Sahni.

Conference Program

HIDDEN HISTORIES: WOMEN AND SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY


The program for our virtual conference is now available for download. Please note that the revised dates for this event are 7-8 & 14-15 May 2021.

CFP Virtual Conference

HIDDEN HISTORIES: WOMEN AND SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY


An international conference organized by Dr. Amelia Bonea (University of Heidelberg) & Dr. Irina Nastasă-Matei (University of Bucharest)

Date: 7-8 May 2021

Venue: Online

Geography class at the Frunze Pedagogical School, Republic of Kirgiziia, 1947-1949 (Fung Library, Harvard University)

Along The Lines


Documentary theatre perfomance on technology, communication and distance

Date: 17 October 2020

Venue: Online

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