The ambition of the training program is to convey the importance of colonial components to long-term histories of health and medicine. The BIP will invite students to confront their individual research on medical or biomedical topics in social sciences to discover, discuss and foster alternative colonial and post-colonial narratives concerning several European empires and post-colonial states from different disciplinary viewpoints. Among major issues, which the participants will be invited to reflect about, are the long history of health structures, landscapes and landmarks, the ethical, legal and historical issues concerning bodily material and medical documents on the long term, the political debates about medical citizenship at local, imperial and international level.

The physical mobility part will be running from 19 to 23 May 2025 and will take place in Marseille, France, at the Vieille Charité site of EHESS.

Part of the week will jointly be organized by the project partners: the Archives nationales d’Outre-Mer and the MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée). On site, we will be having guided visits of museums and archives (MuCEM, Archives nationales d’Outre-Mer, etc.), plenary conferences by senior researchers, and working sessions, in addition to evening cultural events.

The virtual part will be running from 3 February 2025 to 18 April 2025.

The online workshop aims to open up different perspectives on colonial legacies in different institutions. We wish to encourage discussion between participants from different universities, by providing time for exchange in plenary sessions and in small groups. The digital format allows to gather a large number of participants, and to give room to different forms of international expertise, in particular from the African continent.

The online workshop will be complemented by self-paced preparation of a background bibliography on the subject, compiled by the program convenors and shared with participants via an electronic platform.