History Department, King’s College London

Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 11am-1pm.

In this informal reading group we will discuss source material from one of the project’s strand – the presence and integration of African/African-descended healing practices in European medicine – along with new and familiar writings by Tamar Herzog.

We will read excerpts from a series of inquisitorial trials against María Phelipa de la Cruz, a black, mostly free, woman healer in the Canary Islands (1714-1729), whose trajectory was marked by an intense mobility across the islands and the Atlantic. To make the most of Tamar’s expertise, the focus will be set on the entanglement of various forms of mobility (forced, illegal and free) with practices of integration via healing into new communities.

 If you would like to participate in the reading group, please email mmor@kcl.ac.uk