Working Groups

Kilian Laclavetine, on color analyses in tarot cards

Nuance: Lejie Zheng on synthetic indigo in China

Organizer: Elizabeth

"Orifices: Surgery and sodomy in early modern Rome"

Silvia De Renzi (Open University)

Christèle Barois (CESAH)

Embryogenesis narratives and the history of ancient Indian medicine

Sonya Schoenberger, Stanford University

Taina Syrjämaa

Tracing ticks and a multispecies network in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland

Ticks have probably lived for centuries in the Finnish territory. However, their exact distribution was not mapped before the 1950s and only few overt traces of them exist in historical sources. For example, oral history collections contain hardly any reference directly to them. My search for ticks in rural nineteenth and early twentieth century Finland started with the dilemma of ticks’ invisibility in the then society.

Geoff Bil (University of Victoria)

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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) 

Reading seminar with Erin Griffey (University of Auckland) on her book Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe (Penn State University Press, 2025)

Guillermo Pupo on trade in anatto in European markets

Commentator: Deirdre Moore, European University Institute

Nuance:  Silas Edwards on chromolithography, aniline inks and butterfly collecting

Organizer: Sarah

Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc

Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)

The Lone Pregnant Body: Illustrating Feminine Forms in Manṣūr’s Anatomy

SaeHim Park, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

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Leon Garcia Garagarza

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Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”

Satyanad Kichenassamy Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, LMR (CNRS, UMR9008) and
GREI (EPHE-PSL and Sorbonne-Université),

Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.

Joseph Campana

Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)

Jake Benson (and others) on paper marbling

Nuance: Lara Lee Meintjes on her current archive-based project

Organizer: Elizabeth

Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)

Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward