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CfP: Workshop on “Calamities and Countermeasures in Pre-modern South Asia”
We are proud to announce an interdisciplinary hybrid workshop on “Calamities and Countermeasures in Pre-modern South Asia”, to be held in Vienna and online on November 8–9, 2024. Please find all details of the event on the Workshop site. → Read more
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Pandemics, Epidemics, Academics. Projects on the medical traditions in South Asia and Tibet
Besides the epidemics project, the Viennese Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (ISTB) houses two other research projects on medical traditions focusing on Āyurveda and Tibetan medicine: To highlight this research focus, we organize a one-day workshop introducing first findings by the involved scholars. June 23, 2023, physically at the University of Vienna,… → Read more
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CfP: Panel on “Health, disease and epidemics”
As mentioned before, we will host a panel at the ECSAS 2023 in Torino. The full title is “Health, disease and epidemics: multidisciplinary perspectives on the socio-ecology of medicine in pre-modern South Asia” The call for papers in now open for all the panels at the conference: https://ecsas2023turin.eu/call-for-papers/. If you consider submitting a paper, either… → Read more
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Health, disease and epidemics – panel at the ECAS 2023
Julia Shaw and Vitus Angermeier will host a joint panel at the ECSAS 2023 in Torino. The full title is: “Health, disease and epidemics: multidisciplinary perspectives on the socio-ecology of medicine in pre-modern South Asia”. Abstract The ongoing climate, biodiversity, and pandemic crises, influenced by increasingly unsustainable human-animal interactions in a globalized world, have intensified… → Read more
Epidemics and Crisis Management
in Pre-modern South Asia
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Recent Blog Posts
- New participant: Patrick Zeitlhuber
- CfP: Workshop on “Calamities and Countermeasures in Pre-modern South Asia”
- New Publication: Dharma and the Physicians: Ethic Reflections in Early Ayurvedic Literature
- Pandemics, Epidemics, Academics. Projects on the medical traditions in South Asia and Tibet
- Epidemiology in the Bhelasaṃhitā