Working Groups

Mary Mendoza

Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Dresden University)

Seminar on Beautifying Practices in Arabic Medieval Medical Compendia with Anna Gili (University of Padua): Medical Beauty Prescriptions. A reading of al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī and al-Maǧūsī's Kitāb al-Malakī

Meenakshi Srihari, Talking Microbes: Why Comics?

From twentieth-century cartoons in Punch that cast microbes as social and political actors, to manga adaptations imagining the body as an autocratic regime of cellular labour, the microbe has a surprisingly long and charged history of visual representation. This talk traces that history to ask: what does the comics form uniquely offer to stories of contagion and infection that other narrative modes cannot?

Amalia Dragani (EHESS), "Malinowski’s Hidden Poet: Artistic Practice and the Birth of a New Methodology"

Deep Space Extractivism: The Negative Portrayal of Mining in Hollywood’s Science Fiction by Brian Leech (Augustana College)

Collecting Color/Color Collections*

First: Some statements

Medical History in the World: A Roundtable

Speakers: 

Amanda Herbert (Durham)

Lauren Kassell (EUI/Cambridge)

Hannah Murphy (KCL)

Joseph Campana

Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Of Archives, Heritage, and Virtual Repatriation: Biologia Centrali-Americana and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher  (University of Salzburg).

Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Australian mammals, museums and colonial histories

Saurav Kumar Rai, Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*

Dilip K Das, Narrating Spaces of Contagion

Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives