Knowledge Notes

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

POSTDOC VACANCY: The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as Archives in the (Post)Colonial Museum, 1850-1939. TU Berlin, April 15, 2020, to April 14, 2022. Application deadline: March 20, 2020. (HT @an_augusti)

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Technology Behind Media Misinformation: The Creation, Detection and Investigation of Fake News. “The Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group is calling for presenters to participate in their open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin, Ireland, from August 15-20, 2020.” Deadline: March 25, 2020. (HT @SwenSteinberg for this and the next two calls .)

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Use and Abuse of Migration Research, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, September 17–18, 2020. Deadline: April 15, 2020.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Worlds of Management: Transregional Approaches to Management Knowledge since 1945, Universität Wien, November 25–27, 2020. Deadline: April 15, 2020.

WEBSITE: Early Printed Books: Resources for Learning and Teaching by Sarah Werner (aka @wynkenhimself)

BOOK: Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge, edited by Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad, and Anna Nilsson Hammar (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2020). (HT @ostling_j)

BOOK: The World of Children: Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment,
edited by Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß (New York: Berghahn, 2020). The books chapters are divided into three main sections: “Official Knowledge,” “Literary Knowledge,” and “Knowledge in Entertainment.”

ARTICLE: “Thomas S. Kuhn, Earwitness: Interviewing and the Making of a New History of Science” by Anke te Heesen in Isis 111, no. 1 (March 2020). HT @elmilam

BOOK SERIES: Studies in the History of Knowledge (Amsterdam University Press), edited by Klaas van Berkel (Groningen), Jeroen van Dongen (Amsterdam), and Herman Paul (Leiden University).

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