Knowledge Commons | Anthony Cerulli | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/acerulli/activity/ Activity feed for Anthony Cerulli. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ba38d608dc196626c8ca962679f6a364 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1943224/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:50:39 -0500 0 e2e299906deea7a3a6ceb4ce1a67bf56 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1939494/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:30:07 -0500 0 1b6570b4ada47590ce3f735579b9128b Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1933688/ Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:02:15 -0500 0 cd9130fc43ed433b90d8fc408deadacd Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1930115/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:22:29 -0400 0 11f16c6b07fd10023206f768a5ab323d Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, Artist-in-Residence @ MPIWG, on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=503 Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:30:48 -0400 I'm thrilled to be invited as the Artist-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in the upcoming 2025–26 academic year. Very grateful to the MPI for the support of my e […]

]]> 9f681fee11393e7a80455a37b6d486fd Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1920196/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:51:43 -0400 0 03db3813bf777f55a647f5fac1b214a7 Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, "Visualizing Manuscriptistan", on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=494 Sat, 31 May 2025 15:03:21 -0400 Had a great time speaking about the Manuscriptistan Project at Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI last week, recounting the project's genesis, explaining my aesthetic aims for the work, and offering […]

]]> 55144f7205cae5e5562f5038ca4fdb98 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1917195/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:22:05 -0400 0 215fa2bef5e55728bdb50437e9659cc9 Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, New Exhibit @ Overture Center for the Arts, on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=474 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:46:10 -0400 Manuscriptistan is featured in a new two-person exhibit (w/superb painter, Matthew Braunginn) at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison: "Inverse Testaments of Creation" (in Gallery II).

The exhibit […]

]]> 91f19edff6a3b5672b1734ecb4b62b07 Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, Manuscriptistan in 2025!¡!¡, on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=467 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:35:25 -0500 Looking to the months ahead this New Year, I'd like to thank the folks at the Fluno Center Gallery for exhibiting 29 images from the Manuscriptistan Project in "Framing the Archive." There's still time to check […]

]]> 1f87f436e0821d5e57805f1591852ba8 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1906581/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:46:00 -0500 0 24c31d99011cf9444e0f0684dba48bac Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890336/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 626d68d10cbee3af196fbeed477ee2aa Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890250/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:48:15 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4bbe1ecf78c40cb950660b8d22599bd Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889304/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:07:17 -0400 0 767f223f162730120021a2f001bdc5f2 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886568/ Sun, 19 May 2024 12:28:59 -0400 0 3aed9f305b9dca93ced011661e8273ad Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878398/ Sun, 03 Mar 2024 15:31:00 -0500 0 9635d034c9d442aa2d852bbe37125b37 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874093/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:47 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 925594aaf0938b6380414c1677177b37 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874092/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:38 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d1154f20d12f544dce5c736950dd594 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874091/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:30 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebb9927c505a41a7633b3921a9a7ffc1 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Indology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874090/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:28 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d9cdfe6dbaad85b6a137959b0152bd4 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Hinduisms https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874089/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:26 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c44e2b44456ceab97e5b8416264d962 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873981/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:39:03 -0500 0 6442c0881e728d52fbe4307048be0345 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873976/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:55:00 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

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]]> 0 d9e73992b52327dce08182495a3b3b5c Anthony Cerulli deposited “Vies et renaissances des manuscrits en Asie du Sud” in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868290/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:00:03 -0500 article + 6 photographs from the Manuscriptistan Project

]]> 0 5ba4e49d967e57a7a5f3ff8a19ce5ca9 Anthony Cerulli deposited Shaping the Study of South Asia: The Annual Conference on South Asia at UW–Madison https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868256/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:44:28 -0500 In this chapter, we reflect on the history of the Center for South Asia’s Annual
Conference on South Asia (ACSA), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022. We explore the Center’s role as a resource to the public and UW–Madison’s international community of scholars through its facilitation of the conference. Unique among National Resourc…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f619b3ab0859a27aa2b2332c880ae4d8 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866526/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:49:17 -0500 0 a12afbf9e6f1936768b75eafb00d4e98 Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, Manuscriptistan: Upcoming Exhibits, on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=412 Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:17:17 -0400 I'm very excited about three new exhibits from the Manuscriptistan Project that are lined up. First, I'll bring some images to Roberta's Art Gallery in Whitewater later this fall (Nov–Dec) for a solo exhibit c […]

]]> 4ab025acbc36cadb0029200fb3936d96 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855794/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:30:08 -0400 0 f613572595ef4730cd1f81cef90addb7 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849024/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:43:19 -0400 0 5ebd2f89ecb7f133c6532f99de866fec Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, On the road again..., on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=397 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:54:54 -0500 Fifty-seven images from the Manuscriptistan Project left Madison on a semi-truck last week for New York to be hung in the exhibit, "The Archive as Art," at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. After a pandemic lull […]

]]> 76ff67ac6fc7a6e48009bea0231c3f5a Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823969/ Sun, 27 Nov 2022 03:09:27 -0500 0 981e8df647d8e091bd0a5335e9b86152 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779585/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:38:05 -0400 0 2ca18cc9521d1bb5e60379b432d2ca8f Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777393/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:19:58 -0400 0 0009547407e2b40f839b5a72e4216ad8 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773135/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:38:31 -0500 0 ac47cb65fcba54616ff3cf91aa0c1367 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772301/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:20:24 -0500 0 b98e55d3656cb15aca4d79306b89d10f Anthony Cerulli wrote a new post, The Manuscriptistan Project: Updates, on the site Anthony Cerulli https://anthonymcerulli.hcommons.org/?p=271 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 12:24:00 -0500 ©2022 anthony cerulli

One of Manuscriptistan's largest prints (above) appears on the cover of my new book with the University of California Press, The Practice of Texts (2022).

17 images from the […]

]]> 12a11a379df5f7def032f5f17335c2eb Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760889/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:24:33 -0500 This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbc1fc30d2ce65a8b4827111080e4e90 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760888/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:24:23 -0500 This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

]]> 0 b72ad501dd758c621a3ba80149c7a68f Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group Indology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760887/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:24:21 -0500 This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

]]> 0 74ee2b33b230420ce5557b472699ed97 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760886/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:24:06 -0500 This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

]]> 0 6105a3b54837a7629c937198d2acaa99 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760836/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:08:53 -0500 This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c6a0bae798194f7ec783b0218344e43 Anthony Cerulli's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760835/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:51:12 -0500 0 f63fe095b80e4edd34447fcfc4e0fdca Anthony Cerulli deposited "Disease: Discourse and interpretation in premodern South Asia" in the group Textual Scholarship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757427/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 02:24:26 -0400 In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that's contained in texts.

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