BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250928T081031EDT-3594uHZL4I@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250928T121031Z DESCRIPTION:Inoculation in Early Modern India: Evidence from the East India Company Archive\n \n Dr. Anna Winterbottom\n 91Ö±²¥\n \n While the origins of vaccination have been widely studied\, inoculation\, on which vaccination is based\, is less well known. Inoculation involved deliberately infecting a patient with a mild version of smallpox\, conferring future protection against the disease. Inoculation was described in Chinese texts from the s ixteenth century onwards. By the eighteenth century\, it was practiced els ewhere in East Asia\, and in parts of South Asia\, and the Ottoman Empire\ , from where it was introduced to Europe. Inoculation was also known in so me areas of West Africa\, from where enslaved people introduced it to part s of the Americas. In this paper\, I examine how the technique of inoculat ion was transmitted across different medical cultures and between differen t religious and linguistic communities. I use a case study of a letter wri tten in 1801 and preserved in the East India Company archive. This letter\ , which is translated from Telugu into English\, describes how inoculation was transmitted southwards from Bengal to Andhra Pradesh. The movement of the practice involved several forms of translation: linguistic\, religiou s\, and bodily. The East India Company archive also reveals that both the Company and Indian rulers provided patronage for inoculation in the late e ighteenth and early nineteenth centuries\, using the technique as a public demonstration of power and benevolence.\n DTSTART:20250219T200000Z DTEND:20250219T220000Z LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTavish SUMMARY:IOWC Winter Speaker Series - Dr. Anna Winterbottom URL:/history/channels/event/iowc-winter-speaker-series -dr-anna-winterbottom-362843 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR