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The Nail of the Great Beast: A Story of Substitution, Trade, and Animal Medical Substances
This project examines the path of the uña de la gran bestia or great beast’s nail, a remedy that appeared in the therapeutics on both sides of the Atl
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Reading Group | May 9, 2023 | 16:30 to 18:00
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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Reading Group | Apr 13, 2023 | 16:30 to 18:00
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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Reading Group | Mar 7, 2023 | 16:30 to 18:00
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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Reading Group | Jul 26, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
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The Use and Reuse of Paper in the Humanities
Paper is probably the most central working material of the humanities across history: Scholars have read from and written on paper, thought with paper
Science as Prophecy: Measuring Past and Future Climates
"Climate" defies easy definition. It is a malleable concept, one that historians have increasingly recognized is mediated by diverse cultural practice
Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
"It Is Madness, Downright Madness": The (Im)morality of Attempts to Measure the Universe
Numeracy, by which I mean counting, calculating, and measuring, was ubiquitous in Greek and Roman antiquity, it informed the production of account ins