CfP: WORLDS OF NATURE AND MEDICINE: New Historical Perspectives
LAGLOBAL Conference/Workshop August 2-3, 2017.
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Since
the sixteenth century New World and in particular Iberian and Latin
America knowledge has been critical to the modern making of ‘nature’ and
‘medicine’. Nevertheless, this long history of the making of new
knowledge is not fully recognized in canonical narratives of the
histories of science and medicine, which still emphasize European and
North-American ‘discoveries’ and pay little attention to the
transoceanic circulation of knowledge and people. At this two-day
workshop, leading historians from around the world will present new
research on the emergence and development of concepts and practices
related to natural history and materia medica in the New World from the
sixteenth to the twentieth century, illuminating the connections between
global and local processes in natural science and medicine.
Papers
can be presented in Portuguese, English and/or Spanish. Submit title,
100-word abstract, and 2-page CV, by MARCH 1, 2017 to LAGLOBAL Network
Facilitator José Guevara at jose.guevara@postgrad.sas.ac.uk. Informal inquiries may be addressed to LAGLOBAL Director, Mark Thurner (University of London) at mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk and Marcos Cueto cuemarcos@gmail.con (Fiocruz).
Contact Info:
LAGLOBAL Network Facilitator José Guevara at jose.guevara@postgrad.sas.ac.uk.
The
LAGLOBAL network is led by the Institute of Latin American Studies of
the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and is supported by
the Leverhulme Trust. The network includes seven additional
institutions: (1) the Centre of Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean
Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland; (2) the Departamento
de Historia de la Ciencia of the Instituto de Historia, CSIC, in
Madrid; (3) the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México in
Mexico City; (4) the Departamento de Antropología, Historia e
Humanidades at the Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
(FLACSO) in Quito; (5) O Programa em História das Ciências e da Saúde at
FIOCRUZ in Rio de Janeiro; (6) the John Carter Brown Library at Brown
University in Providence, and (7) the Institute of Historical Research
at the University of Texas at Austin.