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Fusion of two images: "Dyers scraping stenciled fabrics," figure 235, Hommel & Mercer, China at Work 1937, and "Indian indigo-dye worker," photo A. Mamidipudi, 2017.

Dept. III

Colloquium 2018–19

The Department III Colloquia are regular meetings for the department members to discuss our work in progress, to comment, and to help each other in our writing process. The format is a discussion of a pre-circulated paper, led by an introductory comment by an external discussant. 

2018

The Pricing of Electricity in Postwar France MPIWG Room 265

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Horny Substances and Medical Properties: The Nail of the Great Beast MPIWG Room 265

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The Art of Judgment in Wetlands: Landscape Ethics, Aesthetics, and Science in Nature Conservation MPIWG Room 265

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Vegetable * Animal * Transformation MPIWG Room 265

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Women, Race, and Medicine: Black Midwives in Early 19th-century Ottoman Egypt MPIWG Room 265

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Documenting Impermanence: Five Centuries of Mapping Transient Fishing Stations in Newfoundland, Canada MPIWG Room 265

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2019

Weather Events or Climate Change? Yuan Dynasty, Local Gazetteers, and Sericulture MPIWG Room 265

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How Hard is Hard? Climbing Grades and the Classification of Verticality in the Twentieth Century MPIWG Room 265

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Multiple Translation Activities MPIWG Room 265

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German and Egyptian Sexologists and the Boundaries of the Sexual Instinct: Early Twentieth Century Encounters MPIWG Room 265

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Of Sweet Potatoes, Locusts, Ducks, and Ditches: Animal Technology of Biological Pest Control in Late Imperial and Modern China MPIWG Room 265

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A Medieval Geographical Manuscript from Dunhuang: The Illustrated Itineraries of Shazhou (Shazhou tujing) MPIWG Room 265

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