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Vera-Simone Schulz
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at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
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Join us at @chstma.bsky.social for our next #mmea session on

Thursday, August 14 at 10am EDT (Philadelphia time) with

Tuli Mekondjo (Windhoek): Oimbodi Yedu: Herbs of the Soil

Free, online, all welcome! Sign up for free membership here to receive the zoom link! www.chstm.org/group/plants...
August 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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"Ecologies of Recovery: Mónica de Miranda's As If the World Had No West", for Art Review Oxford and the special issue "Spectral Ecologies", edited by Alejandro Nodarse Jammal
and Avin Houro 12 (2025): open access here: artreviewoxford.com

#monicademiranda #asiftheworldhadnowest #artreviewoxford
July 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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If you're interested in an English translation please see the following images.

Next text coming up in November, stay tuned!
July 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Wrote a text for @ndaktuell.bsky.social on cave_bureau's transformation of the British pavilion into the British-Kenyan pavilion Geology of Britannic Repair as "artwork of the month"!

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192...

This is an initiative of @leuphana.bsky.social

#ndaktuell #kunstwerkdesmonats
July 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Join us for our #mmea series on #plants in #africa at #chstm tomorrow

July 10, 10am EDT (Philadelphia time)
for a talk by Rabiu Yusuf on indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria!

free, online, all welcome!

to join sign up for free membership for the working group here:

www.chstm.org/group/plants...
July 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Join us for four days discussing pseudo-scripts, (il)legibility and ornamentation with case studies from across the globe!

Pisa and online, program and links to register for online attendance (free, all welcome) here:

www.leuphana.de/institute/ip...

May 2-3, May 9 and May 17!
April 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Mamluk metal objects found their ways to West Africa already during the late medieval and early modern period like this Mamluk metal bowl that was excavated at Durbi Takusheyi not far from Katsina in Northern Nigeria in an early 15th-cen prestige tomb.
April 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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You see here an image of Mansa Musa, the ruler of Mali, from the 'Catalan Atlas' (1375), today at the BnF, that became an emblem for the significance of trans-Saharan routes (not only trade routes, but routes for many different purposes, such as pilgrimage,
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It was an honor to write a text for the upcoming Mamluks exhibition at the Louvre, curated by Carine Juvin

#materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre
April 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Join us for Sahar Bazzaz' talk on Plants of the Red Sea Littoral: PE Botta's Expedition to Yemen, 1836

in the #MMEA series of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine on

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 10am EDT (Philadelphia time), online!

www.chstm.org/group/plants...
April 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Join us for a conference on "Textile Ecologies", intersections between textiles and the environment, and the past, present, and future of cloth, February 5-7, free online:

full program and link to register: www.leuphana.de/institute/ip...

#envhist #textiles #ecologies #envhum #sustainability
February 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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You're all cordially invited to the next #MMEA session with a talk by

Guillermo Pupo Pernet @guillopupo.bsky.social (University of Arkansas): Achiote: Painting the Town Red

Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 10am Philadelphia time

Free, online, all welcome!

www.chstm.org/content/plan...
September 10, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Join us today at 5pm Amsterdam/Berlin/Rome time for a talk by Jenny Bulstrode on "The Cogs and the Wheels in the Webs of Resistance" in our Material Migrations online lecture series!

Free registration, all welcome: lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/jenny_bulstr...
July 1, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Join us today at 5pm Rome/Berlin time online for our Material Migrations lecture series:

Mark Seyram Amenyo-Xa | The Forts and Castles of Ghana: 4+ Decades of World Heritage Status

May 27, 5pm CET

Free, all welcome!

Link to register below:
lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/mark_seyram_...
May 27, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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Next up is a talk by Albrecht Fuess (Marburg) on "A Clash of Muslim Empires: The Struggle between Ottomans, Mamluks and Safavids in the Years 1470-1520"

Online, free registration: lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/albrecht_fue...

Monday, April 29 at 4pm London, 5pm Rome/Berlin time! All welcome!
April 24, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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Join us for the Material Migrations online lecture series on transcultural entanglements, the mobility of objects, and processes of artistic transfer in Afro-Eurasian and global perspectives with case studies from the 13th cent. until today!

lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/material_mig...
April 24, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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Join us tomorrow at #mmea @chstmorg for a talk by Chanelle Adams (University of Lausanne): Volatile Oils: 'Wellness', Political Power, and the Market for Ravintsara Essential Oil in Madagascar at 10am Philadelphia, 3pm London, 4pm Berlin time: free online, all welcome! www.chstm.org/content/plan...
April 10, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Join us at #mmea @chstmorg for a talk by

Taiye Fasola (University of Ibadan): The Relevance of Ethnobotany for a Modern Society

Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00 am to 11:30 am EDT (Philadelphia time), 2pm London, 3pm Rome time: free online, all welcome! www.chstm.org/content/plan...
March 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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You don't want to miss Semih Celik's talk at
#MMEA!

Thursday, Feb 8, 10:00 am EST, online

Semih Celik : 'A Museum in the Cradle of Civilization': The Imperial Natural History Museum in Istanbul and its Aftermath (1836-1870)

To join kindly sign up for free here: chstm.org/content/plan...
February 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Join us on Thursday, Jan. 11, 10am EST (Philadelphia time) for our Plants in Africa and the Global South #MMEA series for a talk by

Sumana Roy: Searching for the Plant Script

Free, all welcome! Sign up for free by becoming a member for free here: www.chstm.org/content/coll...
January 9, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Join us Thursday, Dec. 14 at 10am EST (Philadelphia time)
for our upcoming #MMEA session #CHSTM with

Elena Agudio & Marleen Boschen on Testing Grounds / Seedings Worlds: Intersections of Art and Ecology in the Garden of Villa Romana, Florence

Free, online, no recording, you don't want to miss it!
December 12, 2023 at 10:08 PM
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You're all cordially invited to our upcoming #MMEA session #CHSTM with

Elena Agudio & Marleen Boschen on

Testing Grounds / Seedings Worlds: Intersections of Art and Ecology in the Garden of Villa Romana, Florence

Dec. 14, 10am EST (Philadelphia time), free, online!
www.chstm.org/content/plan...
November 28, 2023 at 2:07 AM
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Thank you very much, James Wachira, for a highly intriguing paper on "NarRating Plants in the Ecolore of the Samburu of Kenya" at #MMEA at CHSTM today and many thanks to everyone who came for the rich discussion!

#plants #multispeciesmaterialities #ecologies #aesthetics
November 9, 2023 at 4:53 PM
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Join us for our Plants in Africa #MMEA series on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 10am EST (Philadelphia time)

James Wachira (University of Nairobi):
NarRating Plants in Kenyan Verbal Arts

Free, all welcome!

Zoom link by signing up as member for free here:
www.chstm.org/content/plan...
November 8, 2023 at 5:31 AM