ECR Conference
This conference explores the multiple ‘global dimensions’ of early modern recipe crafting, fashioning, and collecting. We will ask how global entanglements, transcultural encounters, and exoticizing fantasies shaped early modern recipe creation.
Early modern recipes were often co-produced by indigenous practitioners and deliberately incorporated exotic ingredients. Some recipes travelled across mercantile and diplomatic routes, while others were fashioned by ‘armchair’ practitioners to reflect the values and ideas of foreign lands. By asking how early modern recipes could be ‘global’, this conference proposes to shed new light on the influence of non-Western scientific knowledge, the roles of ‘forgotten’ actors, and the formation of Western ideas about non-European science and medicine.
Day 1: Spaces and Sources
9:30-11:00: Domestic Spaces
11:30-13:00: Substances in the Microcosm
14:30-17:30: Writing and Transmitting Recipes
17:30-18:30: Keynote Lecture
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Day 2: Movements
10:00-12:00: Travelling Substances
13:30-15:30: Travelling Recipes
15:30-16:30: Final Remarks
Full programme and registrations
Organisers: Lavinia Gambini (lg625@cam.ac.uk) and Lucy Havard
Contact: globalrecipes2024@gmail.com – X/Twitter: @GlobalRecipes24 – Bluesky: @globalrecipes2024.bsky.social
The organisers thank the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM), the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), and the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History, Cambridge) for their generous support.