Science and its Others: Histories of Ethno-Science | 19-20 September 2022
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19 - 20 September 2022 | Darwin College, University of Cambridge
The convenors of the 'Ethno-Science' research group at gloknos will host a two-day workshop to bring together themes and ideas from their recent programme of talks and reading groups.
We are grateful for the ongoing support of HPS, Cambridge and Darwin College Cambridge in facilitating this event and others in the series.
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19 September |
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9:00 Opening from the organisers |
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Panel I Making Sense |
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9:30 - 10:15 |
S. Waisse & R. Uchôa |
What to do with formularies? The case of the Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees |
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10:15 - 11:00 |
César G. Herrera |
Open, Sesame: from Taino zemis to Latinized seminae, germs and microbes; ethnohistory of microbiology and the commitments of an ethnomicrobiology |
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11.00 - 11:15 Short break |
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11:15 - 12:00 Comment and General Discussion (John Tresch) |
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12:00 - 14:00 Lunch |
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Panel II Naming and Classifying |
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14:00 - 14:45 |
Linda Andersson-Burnett |
Linnaean natural history and the 18th-century construction of northern savagery |
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14:45 - 15:30 |
Staffan Müller-Wille |
Linnaeus in Lapland: Parasites, Reindeer and People |
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15:30 - 15:45 Short break |
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15:45 - 17:30 Comment and General Discussion (Michael Bravo fw Edwin Rose) |
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19:00 Dinner |
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20 September
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Panel III Diversifying |
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9:30 - 10:15 |
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb & Marcia Ferraz |
“Upon sowing, everything grows up!”: the late arrival of Brazilian native plants in Portuguese medicine |
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10:15 - 11:00 |
Abigail Nieves Delgado |
“México es un país megadiverso”: Biocultural diversity and exceptionality as epistemic motifs |
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11:00 - 11:15 Short break |
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11:15 - 12:00 Comment and General Discussion (Emma Spary) |
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12:00 - 14:00 Lunch |
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Panel IV Codifying and Identifying
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14:00 - 14:45 |
Roy Ellen |
Identifying plants as a process of cultural cognition: comparing knowledge production and communities of practice in modern botanical science, Nuaulu ethnobotany and in the work of Georg Rumphius |
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14:45 - 15:30
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Sabina Leonelli |
Globalising Local Plant Knowledge: Cassava Research in 21st Century Crop Science |
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15:30 - 15:45 Short break |
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15:45 - 17:30 Comment and General Discussion (Harriet Mercer) |
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19:00 Dinner |
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Raphael Uchôa (ru224@cam.ac.uk)
Staffan Müller-Wille (sewm3@cam.ac.uk)
Harriet Mercer (hjm51@cam.ac.uk)
