Two hands holding a smart phone photograph a placental dyeing procedure that researches freemartinism in cows.

Doctors at Leiden University hospital reenact Frank Lillie’s early placental dyeing method used as a diagnostic tool for assessing placental anastomosis. Used to study a biological phenomenon in genetically female cows born from a dizygotic twin pregnancy, called freemartinism, the dyeing technique maps the exchange of blood and hormones across the placental connection that renders the female twin intersex and unable to conceive. Film still from Flush (2023). © Lucy Beech, courtesy of the artist.

Colloquium 2024–25

Dept. Artifacts, Action, Knowledge

 

The Department III Colloquia are regular meetings for the department members to discuss our work in progress, to comment, and to help each other in our writing process. The format is a discussion of a pre-circulated paper, led by an introductory comment by an external discussant. 

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Summer Colloquium

2025

Monastic Medicine and the Politics of Learning between China and Inner Asia: 1643–1949 MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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"The Origin of All Seeds": Explaining the Causes of Diversity in Ilkhanid Agriculture MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Internal–External Dynamics in Late Ming External Medicine MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Forms of Labour (chapter from the monograph "Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval South India") MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Fall Colloquium

2024

Dept. AAK Welcome MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Seeking a Measurable World in the Texts: Zhu Kezhen's Practice on Phenology and Climatic Change MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Tracing the Source Material of the Heavens-Related Sections in Daily-Use Encyclopedias MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Emerging Traditions in Zodiac Representations in the Hellenistic Era MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Foregrounding Fibers: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Materiality and Knowledge MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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