Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
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Hello #medhist #earlymodern if you happen to be in Venice June 23 come join us to discuss The State Drug, or join us online!
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
What about books that "think with plants and fungi"? una recensione di libri che "pensno con piante e funghi" per L'indice dei libri #histsci #fungi #MycoBookClub
www.lindiceonline.com/articles/18c...
Aldo this: www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...
Century-old mushrooms for the week end #fungifriends #earlymodern #histsci
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#fungifriends Anna Tsing in conversation with art students about the incredibile mess we are in, anthropocene, plantationcene, and making alliances with non-humans #histsci
“Who holds power today?” #histsci Magnifica Humanitas, the last enciclica by Leo XIV is a history of science and technology essay discussing digital colonialism, asserting that technology is not neutral, affirming that violence cannot be left to algorithms. It is so refreshing to read it today!
Meet Anna Tsing at the the KABK in den Haag (Royal academy of Arts) #fungifriends
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
super super happy to share my latest article on the World Wide Silk Web! It was a great experience to write on the 19th century (open access) #histsci #histstm #history
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The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
#histmed #skystorians
www.historians.org/news/action-...
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
