Natural Things in their Environments: A Global Perspective

Our first panel will be chaired by Paula Findlen of Stanford and feature the following talks:

• Alain Touwaide, The Huntington, Metabolizing Medicinal Plants around the Mediterranean
• Barbara Di Gennaro, Yale University, Sower of Discord: Balsam in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Mackenzie Cooley, Stanford University, To Name a Llama: Andean Animals and the Politics of Natural History, 1530-1650
• Florencia Pierri, Princeton University, Animals Out of Place: The Curious Case of Three American "Tigers"
• Duygu Yildirim, Stanford University, Coffee, Intellect, and Medicine: Marsigli’s ​Bevanda asiatica

Our second panel will be chaired by Jessica Riskin of Stanford and feature the following papers:

• Sally Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota, Permanence and Transience: New Zealand Natural Objects in Translation
• Anna Toledano, Stanford University, The Posthumous Lives of the Giant Sloth: The Megatherium’s Path from Artifact to Idea
• Taylor M. Moore, Rutgers University, "Living Fossils": Pelvic Bones and Fertile Wombs as Objects of Natural History in Semi-Colonial Egypt
• Anne Ricculli, Drew University, When Coral was British: Tracing Victorian Ownership through International Exhibition Narratives, 1851-1862
• Adrian Van Allen, California Academy of Sciences, Specimens, Samples, Data: Crafting Natural History in a Genomic Age