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2024
A special colloquium exploring how biological terms can explain early modern ways of making and unmaking worlds https://www.newberry.org/calendar/on-iberian-rhizomatic-worlds-1400s-1700s
2024 •
During the 2023-2024 academic year, a group of Newberry fellows and scholars-in-residence (most of whom hailed from consortium institutions) from different fields and disciplines in early modern Iberian studies developed a common interest in a methodological approach called “the rhizome,” which embraces the vast array of complicated connections between ideas, objects, and actions in the past, just like the complex root systems of subterranean plants that originally carried that name. The so-called Newberry Rhizome Group explored this interest through informal conversations, research in the reading rooms, and at CRS programming throughout the year. Readers can explore how the rhizome concept can be applied to the study of the early modern Iberian world on the blog (Stories) of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, in three connected posts: Rhizome I: Entering the Iberian Rhizomatic Worlds, Rhizome II: Entangled Spaces and Words, and Rhizome III: Entangled Experiences and Meanings. https://www.newberry.org/blog/rhizome-i-entering-the-iberian-rhizomatic-worlds
Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds. Co-edited with Anna Toledano and Duygu Yildirim. London/New York: Routledge, 2023.
Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds2023 •
The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things—ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo—and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegant, Natural Things is the first study of its kind to combine original visualizations with the history of science. Museum-goers, scholars, scientists, and students will find new histories of nature and collecting within. Its playful visuality will capture the imagination of non-academic and academic readers alike while reminding us of the alienating capacity of the modern life sciences.
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A Prehistoric Mural in Spain Depicting Neurotropic Psilocybe Mushrooms? The Selva Pascuala mural, a work of post-Paleolithic rock art in Spain, contains fungoid figures herein hypothesized to depict neurotropic fungi, especially Psilocybe hispanica, a species that occurs in a neighboring region. This hypothesis is based on features of these figures related to fungal morphology, along with ethnographic analogy, and shamanistic explanations of rock art. If correct, this interpretation would support inference of prehistoric utilization of this fungus in the region. The mural represents the first direct evidence for possible ritual use of Psilocybe in prehistoric Europe. ¿Se Representan Setas Neurotrópicas Psilocybe en un Mural Prehistórico de España?. El panel de Selva Pascuala (Villar del Humo, Cuenca, España) conserva pinturas rupestres de cronología postpaleolítica entre las que se incluyen figuras con apariencia de seta, para las que aquí planteamos la hipótesis de que representan setas de efectos neurotrópicos, en concreto Psilocybe hispanica, una especie que crece en regiones próximas. Esta hipótesis se basa en las características de estas figuras en comparación con la morfología de dichas setas, a lo que se añade la analogía etnográfica y la teoría del chamanismo aplicada al arte rupestre. Si estamos en lo cierto, esta interpretación apoyaría la posible utilización regional de estas setas durante la Prehistoria. El panel supone la primera evidencia directa del posible uso ritual de Psilocybe en la Prehistoria europea.
A Prehistoric Mural in Spain Depicting Neurotropic Psilocybe Mushrooms? The Selva Pascuala mural, a work of post-Paleolithic rock art in Spain, contains fungoid figures herein hypothesized to depict neurotropic fungi, especially Psilocybe hispanica, a species that occurs in a neighboring region. This hypothesis is based on features of these figures related to fungal morphology, along with ethnographic analogy, and shamanistic explanations of rock art. If correct, this interpretation would support inference of prehistoric utilization of this fungus in the region. The mural represents the first direct evidence for possible ritual use of Psilocybe in prehistoric Europe. ZSe Representan Setas Neurotr6picas Psilocybe en un Mural Prehist6rico de Espafaa?. El panel de Selva Pascuala (Villar del Humo, Cuenca, Espafia) conserva pinturas rupestres de cronologia postpaleolitica entre las que se incluyen figuras con apariencia de seta, para las que aqui planteamos la hip6tesis de que representan setas de efectos neurotr6picos, en concreto Psilocybe hispanica, una especie que crece en regiones pr6ximas. Esta hip6tesis se basa en las caracteristicas de estas figuras en comparaci6n con la morfologia de dichas setas, a lo que se afiade la analogia etnogrAfica y la teoria del chamanismo aplicada al arte rupestre. Si estamos en lo cierto, esta interpretaci6n apoyaria la posible utilizaci6n regional de estas setas durante la Prehistoria. El panel supone la primera evidencia directa del posible uso ritual de Psilocybe en la Prehistoria europea.
American Anthropologist
Emerging Complexity: The Later Prehistory of South-East Spain, Iberia and the West Mediterranean . Robert Chapman, Colin Renfrew, Jeremy Sabloff1992 •
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Conference: Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700 University of Kent, UK, and online. Friday 30th June - Saturday 1st July 2023 We are pleased to announce the finalized programme for our two-day hybrid summer conference 'Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700' taking place at the University of Kent, UK, on 30th June to 1st July 2023. A two-day conference to examine how the complex transcultural nature of Central and Eastern Europe was co-shaped, fostered, and reimagined by artefacts, materials and visual culture, from food to art and clothing to weapons. Home to Slavic, Germanic, Latin, Baltic, Finno-Ugric, and Turkic peoples, Central and Eastern Europe sat astride a network of commercial routes, cultural interactions, and demographic flows that turned it into one of the most entangled regions of the early modern world. Papers explore this multiconfessional, multiethnic, and multilingual realm as a crossroads of cultures. Full programme here: https://research.kent.ac.uk/emcentraleu/conference/ The registration link can be found directly here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUUwgEIviXskD7oIc0PZ6Qkr5i-B01klqFXGYwvGwGCZp9MQ/viewform For in person attendance register by 5th June, and online attendance by 28th June. Postgraduate/early-career bursaries available for conference attendance in return for help with blogging and social media. Apply via registration link. We look forward to welcoming you to our conference and engaging in fruitful discussions and knowledge exchange.
Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations
The Premodern World2023 •
Julia Costa Lopez " The 'Premodern' World" in the Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations, Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Maja Spanu, and Christian Reus-Smit (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 395-409
Book of the Wonders of the World:Secrets of Natural History, Studies, Transcription and Translation
WONDERS OF THE WORLD: SECRETS OF NATURAL HISTORY MS [BnF] fr. 22971 Studies, Transcription and Translation (Burgos:Siloé, 2018).2018 •
Secretz de l’Histoire Naturelle, an illustrated geographical and encyclopaedic work in seventy-three chapters giving wonders and marvels of fifty-six places such as France or India and of seventeen things such as water, poisons, the human body, and ancient buildings. The Secretz translates into French of about 1380 the Fourteenth book of Pierre Bersuire’s Reductorium Morale, a Latin preaching encyclopedia. Secretz deals with trade with China, peoples real and imaginary such as Frisians and backward footed men, features of countries, islands, and regions such as mysteriously increasing and decreasing springs and mountains containing passageways to the antipodal regions, as well as marvellous deeds such as magical acts to remove flies from a city performed by the poet Virgil. The sources are primarily Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, Solinus’ Mirabilia, and Gervaise of Tilbury’s Otia Imperialia. The work exists is in four luxurious manuscripts ranging in date from 1427 to 1485 with pictures painted by eminent court artists as well as in several sixteenth-century printed editions The volume--of which only the Middle French text and English translation, with Appendices--can be given here for copyright reasons, contains an Introduction by John Friedman and Kristen Figg, treating all aspects of the work, with detailed analyses of the content and style of the 56 miniatures by Kathrin Giogoli. The volume forms a Commentary to the Siloe facsimile of BnF fr. MS 22971 which appeared several years ago.
Imaginaries of Connectivity
Novelty and the creation of the New World in XVI C Spain2019 •
Novelty disrupts order. Because of its disrupting character, it exposes the fallibility of pre-existing ways of knowing, thinking, and being. It betrays the operation of particular ways of experiencing the world that are always imbued with specific forms of power relations, forms of subjectivity, and systems of rule. Observing novelty and the ways in which it emerges, always in precise historical moments, allows for an understanding of the conditions under which something is deemed possible and real. Its usefulness transcends the anecdotic and relates to the possibility of introducing new ways of labelling the outcome of experience, of creating new narratives and grammars for describing what had not yet been encountered or thought, of reflecting about a real without recourse to the strictures of theory and dogma, of creating new markets for ideas and products, and, as explored through this book, of creating spaces of governance.
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J. Bennet (ed.), Representations. Material and Immaterial Modes of Communication in the Bronze Age Aegean,
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Zwischen Ostsee und Adria. Ostmitteleuropa im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. Politische-, wirtschaftliche-, religiösische- und wissenschaftliche Beziehungen, hrsg. von Attila Bárány, Roman Czaja, László Pósán, Debrecen: Universität Debrecen Forschungsgruppe „Ungarn im mittelalterlichen Eu...
The Russian Orthodox Church in Livonia during the Livonian War (1558-1582).2023 •
Review of International Studies
Mary Shelley's <i>The Last Man</i>: Existentialism and IR meet the post-apocalyptic pandemic novel2022 •
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Yönetim ve ekonomi/Yönetim ve ekonomi dergisi
Economic Globalization, Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence From OECD Countries2024 •
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Effectiveness of a Third Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines in Preventing COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent and Immunocompromised Adults — United States, August–December 20212022 •
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RACE - Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia
Indicators of Technology in the Perception of It and Business Managers – a Comparative Analysis2015 •
Biochemical Journal
Relationship between hepatic phenotype and changes in gene expression in cytochrome P450 reductase (POR) null mice2005 •
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