History of medicine along the Silk Roads
Book: ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads (2021)
Katz Center, UPenn 2024-25 fellow
💀 Death – A Card of Transformation 💀
This Easter weekend, we’re sharing the Death card from Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot (painted by Frieda Harris). A symbol of change and new beginnings, it’s about transformation and rebirth.
This #fellowtuesday read our newest Q&A with Katz Center fellow @RTlalim as she opens our eyes to the to the fascinating and understudied medical knowledge networks that run along the Silk Routes.
https://t.co/Ab7no0cSlB
New book series seek submissions:
Medica: Studies in Pre-Modern Health and Healing (Routledge) is a multi-disciplinary book series that encourages and promotes scholarship in the long history of health, healing, and medicine from the Ancient World to 1800.
Closure is a myth. Grief doesn't evaporate—it waxes and wanes.
The purpose of grief is not to cause pain. It's to keep memories of loved ones alive and remind us to make the most of our time.
Moving forward after loss is not about erasing sorrow. It's about gaining perspective.
Happy to announce the formal launch of the Healing Arts pillar of MIT's Center for Global Humanities, which I'm co-chairing with the brilliant @RTlalim.
https://t.co/jcUXhfMh0g
This #FellowFriday enjoy these highlights from this Wednesday's seminar The Human Body in Sefer Asaf: Eurasian Inputs and Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah led by fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. @RTlalim
Listen to Lan A. Li @LanAngelaLi discuss qigong, approaching Chinese anatomy, straddling multiple epistemologies, and their new book, "Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine", w/ Dr. Pierce Salguero 👇
https://t.co/iwgyl8CcWC
#healthhumanities
This #FellowFriday the Katz Center spotlights 2024–25 fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. As part of this year’s Jews and Health theme, Yoeli-Tlalim’s research focuses on the human body in Sefer Asaf: Eurasian inputs and thirteenth-century Kabbalah. @RTlalim
https://t.co/L7Irg82BUy
Just landed in my inbox! The brand new Oxford Handbook of Galen, a much needed update on the old Cambridge Companion of 2009. Great job by Peter Singer and Ralph Rosen.
We mourn the passing of our dear friend and colleague, the brilliant scholar Natalie Köhle, who passed away on September 9, after a short and intense battle with cancer. A Memorial Service will take place on Friday 9/20 at 11:00 Sydney time, (Thursday 9/19 21:00 EST). 1/2
Spending this weekend in Taipei for the tenth #IASTAM meeting between practitioners and scholars of asian medicine. Check out the program: https://t.co/B2bkOdBdOm
📢 “I hope Goldsmiths management reconsiders the proposed staff reductions.”
Thank you to director and Goldsmiths alum Steve McQueen for showing solidarity on the threatened job cuts which could lead to the sacking of 35% of academic staff across 11 of 18 departments.
#binthetp