Dr. Federica GIGANTE from the History of Science Museum and Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at University of Oxford, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “Scientific Remedies and Natural Specimens from the Islamic World in Seventeenth-century Europe” on 16 March 2023. This talk aims to shed light on the intricate global network of individuals involved in the procurement and understanding of natural specimens and scientific remedies from the Islamic world to Europe during the seventeenth century. By utilizing primary sources such as artifacts from museums, treatises, and letters, the speaker conducted a detailed analysis of how scorpions and lizards were transported from Tunis to cities in Italy, with the objective of revealing the hidden network behind the circulation of these animal specimens. She then examined the channels of procurement and importation through which local and European merchants, who were engaged in trading natural specimens, were operating. Her investigation uncovered that Turkish remedies and drugs were also transported using the same methods. The talk concluded that these artifacts piqued the interest of the European scholarly community and underscored their significance as drivers of intellectual curiosity and advancement during that era.
Date: | 27 March 2023 (Monday) |
Time: | 4:30pm-6:00pm |
Venue: | Room 101, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK |
Topic: | The Return of Chen Ching Lin: Chinese Deserters and Chinatowns in Wartime India |
Speaker: | Prof. CAO Yin Department of History, Tsinghua University |
Language: | English |
Date: | 30 March 2023 (Thursday) |
Time: | 6:00pm-7:30pm |
Venue: | Conducted online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183) |
Topic: | It’s About Time! (And Other Reasons Not to Forget the Craft of Early Medieval Chronography) |
Speaker: | Prof. Jesse TORGERSON College of Letters, Wesleyan University |
Language: | English |
Date: | 6 April 2023 (Thursday) |
Time: | 1:00pm-2:30pm |
Venue: | Conducted online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183) |
Topic: | Architecture and Power: Medieval Lordship, Material Culture, and the Historian’s Craft |
Speaker: | Prof. Maureen MILLER Department of History, University of California, Berkeley |
Language: | English |
Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541
Date: | 3 April 2023 (Monday) |
Time: | 4:30pm-6:00pm |
Venue: | Room 101, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK |
Topic: | Paradoxical Frugality: Consumer Culture in Developing South Korea |
Speaker: | Dr. Anna LEE The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies The Hebrew University |
Language: | English |
Date: | 6 February – 20 August 2023 |
Venue: | Exhibition Area, University Library, CUHK |
Organisers: | The CUHK Library; Department of History, CUHK; Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK |
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