Fall 2021 and Spring 2022

ESWG Schedule Fall 2021 through Spring 2022

(All meetings will take place 12:00-1:15pm ET, both in person and on Zoom)

 

Oct 26 - Yingxue Wang, "‘The Iridescent Effect’: Art, Surface, and Ecology in Early Medieval East Asia”

Nov 16 - Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"

Dec 7 - Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"

Feb 1 - Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"

March 1 - Alejandro Nodarse, “Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino’s Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)”

March 22 - Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"

April 26 - Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations” 

May 3 - Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"