"'Visual Prescription' in Yinshan Zhengyao: Image and Cure in Premodern and Modern China"
Di Wang (Oxford)
Commentator: TBC
Working Groups
The Consortium invites scholars to join our topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields and of each others’ works-in-progress.
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Upcoming Meetings
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Friday, May 9, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics?
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Joyce Dixon, title TBD
Organizer: Giulia Siimonini
Friday, May 16, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Speaker
Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Learn more: Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira - GPSankofa
Presentation:
Details coming soon
Suggested Readings:
Monday, May 19, 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Methods in the Material Histories of South Asia: Snapshot-presentations and Discussion
Join us for a special meeting! We invite you to use an object or an image to introduce your work in the material history of South Asia in a snapshot presentation. These presentations will be a springboard into a discussion on methods in the Material Histories of South Asia. Pre-circulated readings TBD.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
E. M. Nielsen, Brown University
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Elena Schaa - "Heisenberg's Experience of the Matrix Mechanics on Helgoland."
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Catarina Madruga (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin), Archival collections and specimens from German “Kamerun" in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
On the Multivalent Nature of Colors
Or ... what can Prussian blue tell us about color in the world?
Prussian blue has a winding history and a myriad of uses. Since discovery of the pigment in the early 18th century it has been improved, converted, adapted, substituted, and traded within a variety of platforms. It has been called the quintessential inorganic pigment. Its chemistry and physics were long misunderstood.
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Tiago Silva Alves Muniz (Universidade Federal de Goiás): The Struggle for Natural Rubber Species: Local Processes and Global Stories Moved (Around) the World
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Dominik Hünniger (German Port Museum Hamburg)
&
Anita Guerrini (Horning Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Oregon State University)
Title: Collection Ecologies Endeavour Special Issue Work-in-Progress Sesssion
TBD.
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Postponed : this presentation will be re-scheduled in late 2025.
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Tuli Mekondjo (Windhoek): Oimbodi Yedu: Herbs of the Soil
Thursday, August 14, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Banji Chona (Lusaka): Weeds to Who? An Ecological Reimagining of Zambezian Plants
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Romuald Tchibozo (Université d'Abomey-Calavi): Plants in Contemporary Art: The Case of Meschac Gaba in Benin