Day 1: Spaces and Sources
9:00-9.30: Introduction and Greetings
Lavinia Gambini (Cambridge) and Lucy Havard (Cambridge)
9:30-11:00: Domestic Spaces
Chair: Mary Laven (Cambridge)
Olin Moctezuma-Burns (Cambridge) – Interwoven Scripts of Healing: Maya and European Textual Traditions in the Yucatec Household
Lucy Havard (Cambridge) – ‘To make Ginger bread’: Exotic Recipes in the Early Modern English Kitchen
11:30-13:00: Substances in the Microcosm
Chair: Joshua Nall (Cambridge)
Antonia Belli (UCL) – Dis-Assembling Recipes in the Giustiniani Medicine Chest
Amelia Hutchinson (Cambridge) – Philipp Hainhofer’s Networks of Medical Knowledge (c.1600-1630)
14:30-17:30: Writing and Transmitting Recipes
Chair: Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (Cardiff)
Sheryl Wombell (Cambridge) – The Global and the Local in William Cavendish's 'booke of rare minerall receipts', c.1647-54
Chloe Fairbanks (Oxford/Warwick) – ‘Traffic and travel’ in Early Modern Culinary Writing
Leonie Rau (MPIWG Berlin) – Soaps, Salts, and Stains: Collecting Recipes for Stain Removal in the Pre- and Early Modern Arab Mediterranean
Giorgia Maffioli Brigatti (Cambridge) – Poetics and Politics of Perfumery: Ghāliya’s Global Relevance
17:30-18:30: Keynote
Dror Weil (Cambridge) – Moving an Episteme – Some Insights into Cross-cultural Movement of Recipes in Early Modern Eurasia
Respondents: Federica Gigante (Cambridge) and Gastón Javier Basile (I Tatti/MAP)
Day 2: Movements
10:00-12:00: Travelling Substances
Chair: Gastón Javier Basile (Harvard I Tatti/Medici Archive Project)
Serin Quinn (Warwick) – Transferring Tomatoes: Early Modern Spanish Recipes and the Incorporation of Indigenous American Knowledge and Practices
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (Cambridge) – Ginseng or Kanna? Cross-Contextualising Archives, Naturalising the Globe, and Globalising Natures
Francesca Richards (Kent) – The Transfer, Transformation, and Incorporation of Mediterranean Coral in early modern English Recipes
13:30-15:30: Travelling Recipes
Chair: Philippa Carter (Cambridge)
Bethan Davies (Roehampton) – Syrups, Salves, and Ships: A Domestic and Global Recipe
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore (ISI, Florence/Bologna) – Recipes of Theriac as a Domestication Technology
Fikri Cicek (Minnesota) – Potable Gold for a Shared Disease: Transferring Chemical Medical Recipes from Renaissance Europe to the Ottoman Empire (on Zoom)
15:30-16:30: Final Remarks
Lucy Havard (Cambridge), Lavinia Gambini (Cambridge), Gastón Javier Basile (I Tatti/MAP)