Early Sciences Working Group

Sri Sathvik Rayala (Harvard Divinity School), The Gift of Health: Medicine as Śiva’s Dharma in Premodern India. Please RSVP here to receive a copy of the precirculated paper. Concerned with the history of premodern Indian medicine, this article examines...

Kersti Francis (Boston University), Contra Naturam: Magic and Sodomy in Twelfth-Century Natural Philosophy. Please RSVP here to receive a copy of Dr. Francis's paper.

Jin-Woo Choi (Postdoctoral Prize Fellow, Center for History and Economics), Chronicles as Sources of Climate History. If you would like to participate in this session via Zoom, please contact Working Group coordinators Courtney Gragson or Analuiza Nicolae...

Jinshan Yuan (Visiting Scholar, China Biographical Database Joint Ph.D. at Harvard University), The Ways, Characteristics, and Contemporary Response of Prodigy Education under the Imperial Examination System in the Song Dynasty. If you would like to...

The Dead Hand of the Past, a roundtable discussion featuring Sofia Carbonell Realme (English), Joe Currie (Committee on the Study of Religion), Reed Morgan (History), and Ana Luiza Nicolae (History of Science). Co-sponsored with Ancient Studies at Harvard...

Alex Garnick (History of Science), Van Roomen on al-Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern Algebras. This meeting will take place in-person and on Zoom. Please contact analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu for Zoom link.

Gio DiRusso and Julia Hintlian (Committee on the Study of Religion), Eclectic Hellenistic Science in the Sirr al-Khaliqa. This meeting will take place in-person and on Zoom. Please contact analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu for Zoom link.

Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History. This will be a hybrid event; email Mateo Montoya to register for the in-person...

Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge among Early Ottoman Astrologers.

Iman Darwish (Harvard University), Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath's Book of Simples : The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica. This talk will take place in a hybrid format; to receive the Zoom link, please contact mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu.