Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Category: Circulation of Knowledge
Exploring Histories of Risk and Knowledge
Discusses history of risk as an emerging field and the ways it overlaps with the history of knowledge. Uses transnational perspectives on fire-fighting technologies as an example.
Traveling Zoos as Knowledge Mediators?
In recent years, historians of knowledge have been exploring a wide range of knowledge forms that move beyond scientific/learned knowledge.
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.
History of Knowledge at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia #AHA23
The History of Knowledge will be featured in several panels at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2023. If you’ll be attending, please check out some...
Organizing Impulses: Reframing Adventure as Global Knowledge for Young Readers in Precolonial Germany (1841–1862)
“The role of the educator is to rhythmize the soul to [moral] virtue.”1 This conclusion to his 1841 faculty address to the Königliche Realschule zu Berlin captures the spirit of Theodor Dielitz’s educational philosophy....
The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge
In the summer of 1971, an eleven-year-old boy in Gothenburg, Sweden, wrote a letter to the pioneering environmentalist Hans Palmstierna. The boy had recently read a report on the environment in a youth magazine...
Germans Go Subtropical: Migration and the Quest for Environmental-Climatic Knowledge in South America
German migration in subtropical South America began in the early nineteenth century. It lasted for almost 150 years and shaped one of the most extensive projects of transnational forest colonization and global agricultural exchange...
Freedom through Knowledge: Liberalism, Censorship, and Public Health in Early Planned Parenthood Campaigns
“Freedom through knowledge” was one of the slogans of Planned Parenthood’s first national campaign in 1942.1 Publishing pamphlets, posters, and testimonials under the headline “Planned Parenthood in Wartime,” the organization related contraception to the...
