Organizing and Disorganizing Knowledge
The Durham History of the Book Conference provides an online forum for scholars working on premodern book cultures from across the globe. Among the presentations: Wednesday 8 September Emma Spary […]
Pandemic Legacies: Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond
The 3-day 2021 Lapidus Center Conference at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library) is dedicated to “Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age […]
Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches
The Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 “Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches”, organized by the University of Warwick, will be online. Wednesday 10 November Introduction and Welcome (Natalya Din-Kariuki and Guido […]
Medical Encounters and the ‘Languages of Blackness’ in Early Modern Europe
The next IMEMS/IMH online event at Durham University will host Hannah Murphy (King’s College London) on “Spectacle, Slavery, Race: Medical Encounters and the ‘Languages of Blackness’ in Early Modern Europe.” […]
Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade
The next online event at Wellcome Collection will host Hannah Murphy (King’s College London) on “Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade.” Tuesday 30 November 2021, 17:30—18:30 GMT Source: https://wellcomecollection.org/events/YXlPFxEAACIAYZHd
Cosmology, Astrology & Globalization in Early Modern Navigation
For its next online workshop, the Rutter Project (University of Lisbon) explores the role of astrological practices in the global navigations of the early modern period. Navigating by the stars: […]
Snakes, Worms, and Finding God in Kerala
The next webinar (Bibliotheca Hertziana) will host Daniel Margócsy (University of Cambridge) on “Snakes, Worms, and Finding God in Kerala: The Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus.” Wednesday 4 May 2022, […]
Race and the Early Modern
The one-day hybrid conference “Race and the Early Modern” at King’s College London will feature new work by early career scholars. Nicholas R. Jones (Yale University) Cervantine Blackness Andrew Kettler […]
European Knowledge-Making in the New Worlds
The second Scientiae Summer webinar series will be devoted to European Knowledge-Making in the New Worlds. Carolyn Podruchny (York University) – “Dying in the North American Fur Trade: The Changing […]
Re-Thinking Early Modern Maps and Epistemic Images
The Early Science and Medicine seminar (University of Cambridge) will host a hybrid session with Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) on “Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic […]