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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"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
Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'
Snapshot Presentations!
Dorit Brixius (Dresden University)
Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher (University of Salzburg).
Collecting Color/Color Collections
Think this has nothing to do with your life? What about that box of crayons...the paint samples you can't quite get rid of...or the samples we asked you to put together for last year's meeting about color schemes/color palettes?
We're coordinating this meeting with the Collections and Collecting Working Group who are planning a complementary session. All group members will be invited to both sessions. Stay tuned for details!
Nuance: TBA
Organizer:
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
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