Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Category: Archives
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity
The special issue “Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity” stems from a collective scholarly attempt to interrogate the fashioning and evolution of the many forms of Kabbalah, understood as a literary, religious, and intellectual phenomenon in early modern Europe, from the perspective of the contemporary knowledge-making processes.
Of Dodos, Cane, and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai’i in the 1860s
“Reconstituting the networks of the complex and mobile individuals through which indenture globally spread as a legal form of labor can sharpen our understanding of how migration practices and policies became universalized over the course of the nineteenth century…”
Doing Area Studies: Present and Future Perspectives on the History of Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
From Interest in Latin America to Contested Latin American Studies Research on Latin America has long been a tradition in Germany and especially in Berlin, with interest dating back to Alexander von Humboldt’s expeditions...
Knowledge Notes: Books and Archives
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Notes from the Archives: The Absent Presence of U.S. Army Surgeon Charles Francis Mason
In August 2019, the city of Bielefeld, home to about 340,000 people in northwest Germany, launched a new marketing campaign based on an old internet joke. In 1994, Achim Held, a computer science student...
An Intimate Knowledge of the Past? Gossip in the Archives
When the writer Anne Brewster (1818–1892) and the sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908) met in Italy in 1876, their conversation circled mainly around the recently deceased actress Charlotte Cushman. That itself was hardly unusual—Cushman was...
Cranach’s ‘Johann’ and Art Historical Knowledge at the Met
This is the second of three pieces related to provenance research that we are publishing in conjunction with the 6th German/American Provenance Exchange Program (PREP) in Washington, DC. In 1908, The Metropolitan Museum of...
