History of science and knowledge in the late 18th c. Hispanic world | herbaria, local knowledge, and scientific authority 🌿 | former PhD @historyempires
Torino, Piemonte
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Much has been said about the reception of Linnaean botany in the Hispanic world. Drawing on unexplored sources, “Linnaean botany on trial” uncovers new perspectives on the relationship between nomenclature and local knowledge in Enlightenment botany 🌿
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Alla Fondazione oggi è il giorno del workshop 'L’editoria illustrata tra XVIII e XIX secolo: fonti, problemi e piste di ricerca“.
In attesa di caricare le registrazioni su YouTube condividiamo con voi qualche foto scattata questa mattina.
People say: “Just leave academia and find a stable job.” But have you tried leaving? As a historian, reinventing myself beyond academia has felt harder than staying. This year I’ve had more academic than non-academic interviews, despite applying widely. Leaving isn’t simpler.
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New book - Images of the Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze, edited by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler "...this interdisciplinary book examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities...and in Western modernity more generally." bloomsbury.com/us/images-of-…
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Wellcome Early-Career Awards
Welcome Trust is inviting applications from early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.
Funding amount:
Your salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses. Certain costs do not count towards the £400,000 research expenses limit.
Funding duration:
Usually 5 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and may only be longer if held on a part-time basis.
Key dates: There are no deadlines for applications to this scheme. Applications can be submitted at any time.
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The EU research environment is becoming more precarious and insecure than ever, in the name of "excellence" (ERC grants often being the only way for a steady position) and "mobility" (MSCA being the only path for a junior scholar).
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International Seminar for Early- Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars, Teruel, 7-10 July 2027: "Books, letters and empires in the age of Enlightenment".
Still a few days left to send proposals (until 30 September)!
All information here:
isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/ea…
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Poisons and Antidotes 6:
𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐕𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐜, 𝟏𝟓𝟖𝟏
from Pietro Andrea Mattioli, "I Discorsi" (Venice: heirs of Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1581), II.6, p. 244.
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Vipers #Mattioli #Theriac #Antidotes #Alexipharmaca
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🎥 Presentación de la serie documental "Tesoros y fantasmas de la ciencia española", con motivo de los actos conmemorativos del 120 Aniversario de la JAE (2026-2027)
📆 Miércoles 23 de septiembre, a las 18.30h
📍 Salón de Actos del @CSIC
Inscripción: protocolocsic.stela.pro/Publ…
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#CfP 📢 Special Issue: “Silenced Knowledge: Epistemic Censorship, Invisibilisation and the Production of Ignorance in Europe (16th–21st Centuries)”, Cultural History of Europe / Revue d’histoire culturelle de l’Europe
⏰ 1 October 2026
🔗 calenda.org/1424692
#Censorship
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The program for the first edition of the SISS Summer School is now available! 📣
📍 Pisa
🗓️ September 23–24
The initiative is intended for master’s students, PhD students and researchers who earned their PhD within the past three years.
All the info 👉🏻 societastoriadellascienza.it…
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La América española fue uno de los principales puntos a los que llegaron esclavos. Estos eran adquiridos, en su mayor parte, con metales preciosos. Casi dos millones llegaron a territorios españoles. Una montaña de plata y oro a cambio de seres humanos.
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A la venta el Calendario 2027 del @RJBOTANICO @CSIC. Una edición que rinde homenaje a Mariquita (#Colombia), cuna de la Expedición Botánica de #Mutis.
Cómpralo en nuestra Tienda, en la Sociedad de Amigos del RJB o en la caseta 30 de la Cuesta de Moyano
rjb.csic.es/homenaje-del-rea…
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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Finally out! 📙
"Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment", the English revised and expanded version of my book published in 1998 in Spanish, translated and edited by Betsy Lewis, with new presentations and historiographic essay. 👇🏻
liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
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Don't miss Ethnobotany and Economic Botany's Special Issue!
Tropical Coasts and Islands: How can ethnobotany and ethnoecology best support community resilience?
🌻 Log in at ethnobotany.org to read all nine excellent papers!
#Sebotany #economicbotany #ethnobotany
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Entre los muchos efectos que tuvo la expulsión de los jesuitas de América estuvo el remate de sus propiedades. Los jesuitas fueron grandes propietarios de esclavos, que fueron vendidos por buena parte de América. Imagen, venta de una esclava que perteneció a los jesuitas, 1786.
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Job! Professor/Associate/Assistant Professor in Global Iberian Empires - The University of Hong Kong
jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM969/profes…
