Silke talks about “Tracing the Pomander: Aromatic Medicine, Colonial Extraction, and the Becoming of the Body in Early Modern Europe“ at the conference Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives (Venice).
The conference is organized jointly by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Harvard Divinity School, the Ca’ Foscari University Venice, and the HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing.
pictured: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1563, oil on panel.