------------------------------------------------------------------------ * G * O * A * N * E * T **** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ANKA SERVICES For all your Goa-based media needs - Newspapers and Electronic Media Newspaper Adverts, Press Releases, Press Conferences www.ankaservices.com kam...@ankaservices.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prof Timothy D Walker Talk at Fundacao Oriente Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 at 6 pm TITLE: Supplying medicinal plants for the royal hospital: an Indo-Portuguese medicinal garden in Goa 1680-1830. Three hundred years ago, the practice of medicine in Goa's colonial health institutions relied heavily on medicinal plants from India and even Africa, South America and China. It had become thoroughly hybridized. To ensure a ready supply of common local and imported healing herbs, the Royal Military Hospital in Goa maintained on its premises a medicinal garden, supervised directly by the Chief Pyshician of the Portuguese Asian Empire. Professor Walker will talk about this garden as a multicultural space, wherein European and non-European concepts about healing blended. He will describe the physical space of the garden, its Indo-Portuguese caretakers and their unique medicinal cosmology. He will also describe various medicinal plants cultivated in Indo-Portuguese hospital gardens, their applications and effects, as well as the social context in which the medicinal practitioners who employed these plants operated. Timothy Walker is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachussets, DArtmouth, USA, and a visiting professor at the University Alberta in Lisbon, Portuguese. His teaching and research fields include Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their empire, maritime history and European global colonial expansion. -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490