Upcoming Events
2021
April 22 |
“Re-orienting Ancient Medicine Courses”Aileen Das (University of Michigan) and Jay Crisostomo (University of Michigan) This pedagogy workshop is aimed at (past, current, and would-be) instructors of ancient medicine, science, and technology courses who would be keen to integrate material from the pre-modern Middle East. Popular and more academic narratives often equate ancient medicine with Greco-Roman medicine and frame its study as an originist history of a monolithic western medical tradition. When these narratives introduce content from the pre-modern Middle East, such as from Assyria or the medieval Islamicate world, they define the contribution of Middle Eastern knowledge-makers in terms of their anticipation or preservation of a western science. This workshop will discuss ways of foregrounding the theories and actors of pre-modern Middle Eastern science, technology, and medicine without rendering them subservient to a hegemonic “western tradition”. Moreover, we will review a range of primary and secondary source materials that we utilize in our own teaching of these subjects. 1–2 PM PST, Zoom. Sign up to receive the Zoom link here. Co-sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology |
May 14 |
“The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science”Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) 12–1:30 PM PST, Zoom. |
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2020
Wednesday, January 13 |
Singing Nature’s Secrets: Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) and Furnace and Fugue (2020)Tara Nummedal (History, Brown University)
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Thursday, November 19 |
Writing the Plague: How Roman Disease Infected Literature”A conversation with Hunter Gardner (Classics, University of South Carolina) and Caroline Wazer (Lapham’s Quarterly) |
Thursday, February 6 |
The Blue King and the Power of Water in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Book of the DuchessBrantley Bryant, English, Sonoma State University |