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Speaker: Thomas Biskup
Researcher, leader of the project "A testimony to ecclesiastical natural history and an archive of historical biodiversity.
The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the Herzog August Bibliothek" (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany)
Amy Malventano, "Urban Environmentalism and Waste Management Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Louisville"
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A Roundtable Discussion to Launch:
Tillmann Taape, Crafting Medicine: Artisans, Knowledge, and the Common Man in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Books on Surgery and Distillation (Chicago: 2025)
and
Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton: 2025)
moderated by
Pamela H. Smith (Columbia)
Hello all, for this meeting, we will read the following two articles on the theme of embodied and tacit knowledge. Hope to see many of you at the discussion.
Bertucci P. Spinners' Hands, Imperial Minds: Migrant Labor, Embodied Expertise, and the Failed Transfer of Silk Technology across the Atlantic. Technol Cult. 2021;62(4):1003-1031.
Eyferth, Jacob. “Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 4, no. 2 (2010): 185–205.
HSS 2025 Debrief and Discussion
Flesh and Blood of Huitzilopochtli: The Izcahuitli Larva and the Imperial Rise of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
New Approaches in Mining Studies
Timothy James LeCain (Montana): Do Coal and Oil Drive History? The New Materialism and the Question of Mineral Agency
Bernhard Hurch (Graz)
The Hugo Schuchardt Archive: overview of an emblematic figure of the 19th century.
Join us to discuss Working Group member Minji Lee's recent book, The Medieval Womb Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Rep
Paper: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink, "Schrödinger, Szilard, and the emergence of the EPR argument" (forthcoming)
Primary Source: Schrödinger, "The Present Status of Quantum Mechanics" (1935)
Guests: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink
Presenter: Guillermo Pupo, "Annatto as Indigenous Matter: A Rhizomatic Reading of Its Use and Meaning in Colonial Context"
Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc
Michael Adamson, “Lewis Stone and the “Destruction of Venice Beach”: Contesting Petroleum Extraction as a Beneficial Use of the Southern California Shoreline
Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)
The Lone Pregnant Body: Illustrating Feminine Forms in Manṣūr’s Anatomy
Our December meeting is cancelled. See you in January!
Speaker: Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University.
Talk: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world
Cassius Adair, Media Studies, New School, "Lynn Conway's Stealth Work, 1983-1985"
Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Guest: Daniela Monaldi
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