Fabio – Fabio Spirinelli

Reflections on a Global History of Medicine

Posted on February 19, 2021 By Fabio

The current pandemic and the global efforts to understand the disease and to develop a cure made me think back to an assignment I wrote […]

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Luxembourg as a nationalised intermediate space: A short postscript to my doctoral thesis

Posted on December 13, 2020 By Fabio

In a recent episode of the series on contemporary history aired on the Luxembourgian public radio 100komma7, the historian Denis Scuto discussed the idea of […]

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Linear History: Experimenting with Timeline Tools

Posted on October 20, 2020 By Fabio

Timelines are a popular way to present historical events and periods – and not a recent one. In 1769, the British scholar Joseph Priestley published […]

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Toppling Symbols: Statues, the Colonial Past and the Public Space

Posted on June 24, 2020 By Fabio

The actions against statues of historic figures involved in colonialism and its derivatives highlight the importance of critically confronting our past and rethinking our public […]

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Empowering History: On the Role of Historians in Today’s Society

Posted on April 25, 2020 By Fabio

The present blog post is a personal one and engages my opinion as historian and as citizen. It is an attempt at dealing with the […]

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Crossing the Imaginary Curtain: My Experiences in Prague

Posted on January 5, 2020 By Fabio

In October, I traveled to Prague for a workshop on the history of science and the Second World War. For the second time during my […]

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In quest of academic identities: my participation in the ISCH conference in Tallinn

Posted on August 9, 2019 By Fabio

From 26 to 29 June 2019, I participated in a conference in Tallinn (Estonia) organised by the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH), where, in […]

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