Title: Plants in Early Modern Knowledge (and Before): History, Philosophy, and Medicine
Winter 2021-2022 Online Seminar - Ca' Foscari University of Venice/Indiana University Bloomington
Info: Academia
Time: 17.30 (Rome time)/16.30 (London)/11.30 (Bloomington time)
Meetings:
DECEMBER 2, 2021 - 17.30h CET / 16.30h GMT / 11.30 GMT-5
Tommaso Alpina, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Staying Alive: the Place of Plants in Avicenna’s Thought
DECEMBER 13, 2021 - 17.30h CET / 11.30 GMT-5
Georgiana D. Hedesan, Oxford University
Plant Alchemy and Paracelsianism in the Applied Philosophy of Guy de La Brosse
DECEMBER 15, 2021 - 17.30h CET / 11.30 GMT-5
Amalia Cerrito, Università di Pisa
‘Opera vegetabilium plus instinctum naturae sequuntur’. Albert the Great on natural instinct in plants
JANUARY 20, 2022 - 17.30h CET / 11.30 GMT-5
José Pardo-Tomás, IMF-CSIC
Translating Pliny in the New World. Francisco Hernández in Mexico, 1571-1577
JANUARY 26, 2022 - 17.30h CET / 11.30 GMT-5
Emma Spary, Cambridge University
Botanising the Unknown in 1700: French Naturalists, Global Plants, and Disciplinary Divergence before Linnaeus
FEBRUARY 11, 2022 - 17.30h CET / 11.30 GMT-5
Minakshi Menon, MPIWG, Berlin
“What is Indian spikenard?” William Jones’s Philology and Botany
FEBRUARY 21, 2022 - 11.30h CET / 05.30 GMT-5 / 17.30 GMT+8 --- please, note the different time
Alexandra Cook, University of Hong-Kong
Reception of Renaissance Botanical Literature in the Enlightenment. The case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Contact Fabrizio Baldassarri manipulatingflora@gmail.com for more information.