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Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.

Stephanie Leitsch is teaching the 44th International Wolfenbüttel Summer Course, entitled “Early Modern Visual Data: Organizing Knowledge in Printed Books.”

As prints taught viewers how to observe and thus arguably democratized knowledge derived from first-hand experience, this seminar considers printed images as critical visual technology that built knowledge acquisition. . . .

The course is for masters and doctoral students. Application deadline: March 15, 2020. Further details.

Related blog post: “Visual Epistemology and a Short History of the Monstrous Races.


The Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) will be opened in March 2020 at the Department of History, Lund University. Johan Östling will be its director and Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad will serve as deputy directors. . . .

Read more.

Related blog posts: “Circulation of Knowledge” and “From Cultural History to the History of Knowledge.”


Please tweet your tips to @histknowledge or email them to histknow@ghi-dc.org.


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Editors (February 3, 2020). Knowledge Notes. History of Knowledge. Retrieved December 3, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12pxw


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