Insomniac History: On the Art of Recognition in the Making of Health and its Translations

Carla Nappi, PhD

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History

Co-Director of the Humanities Center

University of Pittsburgh

 

Thursday, May 11, 2023

12:00 Noon, Pacific Time

Zoom (passcode: 099447)

 

Carla Nappi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History and Co-Director of the Humanities Center at the University of

Pittsburgh. She is the author of several monographs and edited volumes, include The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard, 2009) and Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities (Oxford, 2021), and co-author of Metagestures (Punctum, 2019, w/ Dominic Pettman). Trained in telling stories with the material traces of life (as a paleobiology B.A. at Harvard), Nappi switched her archive from stone to paper, working with rare books and archival materials on Chinese natural history for an M.A in History of Science at Harvard and a Ph.D. in History at Princeton. She also publishes short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

 

Sponsored by The Program in the History of Medicine

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