History Seminar: DISEASE AND MEDICINE IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE

Thursday 7 May, 5:00pm
Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford and Zoom

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Benjamin Rymer, Oxford

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/L7b6Ve2XQ3WUIoXX-haerg

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Convento de Las Aguas in Bogotá, which served as the military hospital of Santa Librada during the 1820s (Photo taken by Ben Rymer)

Ben Rymer is a DPhil candidate at Magdalen College, Oxford, specialising in the history of medicine and war in Latin America during the age of revolutions. His thesis considers the role of disease and medicine in the Spanish American wars of independence, focusing on how diseases shaped the conflict, and how states and armies responded to the challenge of disease. He is a recipient of a Wolfson humanities scholarship, and in 2024-25 he was William Alexander Fleet Fellow at Princeton University.