Working Groups

Chloé Laplatine (CNRS, Histoire des théories linguistiques)

History of language documentation in the Pacific Northwest

Seminar on The Authorities of Cosmetic Knowledge with Montserrat Cabré (University of Cantabria) and Mónica Durán (University of Granada)

Henry Schmidt (University of California, Berkeley), "Invention and Federal Ethnology in the US"

In the final third of the nineteenth century, ethnologists engaged in new ways with the matter of how and why human culture develops. In the United States, a community of ethnologists based in Washington, DC articulated their answers to those questions by drawing on the concept of ‘invention.’

Guy Erez, "Catching and Curing the Plague in the Multispecies City"

"Medicine at the Mines in Seventeenth-Century Sumatra"

Brief abstract: 

In the late seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company launched intensive mining operations on the west coast of Sumatra. Medical practitioners played crucial roles at the mining sites. This paper examines how these European practitioners understood diseases, managed the health of the labor force, and experimented with mineral medicine at the mines. 

Wenrui Zhao (University of Utah)

Commentator: TBC

Amanda Harris (Sydney)

Archived Sound and Creative Engagements with Papua New Guinean Cultural Heritage in Australia

Oral history interviews. 

Guest experts: Luisa Bonolis and William Thomas

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing  "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'

Snapshot Presentations!

Dorit Brixius (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

Amalia Dragani (EHESS)

Collecting Color/Color Collections

Think this topic has  nothing to do with you? What about that box of crayons...the paint chips you gathered from the hardware store...or the samples we asked you to put together for last year's meeting about color schemes/color palettes?

At this meeting we might consider such broad questions as 

Medical History in the World: A Roundtable

Speakers: 

Amanda Herbert (Durham)

Lauren Kassell (EUI/Cambridge)

Hannah Murphy (KCL)

Joseph Campana

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