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Monthly Archive: December 2016

Report: Migration and Knowledge

Report: Migration and Knowledge

Panel Series at the 40th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in San Diego, September 29 – October 2, 2016

This panel series focused on a field of research that is emerging at the intersection of the history of knowledge and the history of migration.[1] This dynamic field, as series organizer Simone Lässig emphasized … Continue reading

A Year of History of Knowledge Events at the GHI

A Year of History of Knowledge Events at the GHI

Little more than a year has passed since Simone Lässig added the history of knowledge as a research focus at the GHI. In this short time, the institute has hosted or been otherwise involved...

Call for Papers: Knowledge in Flight

Call for Papers: Knowledge in Flight

Knowledge in Flight: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue in North America

“The German Historical Institute, The Leo Baeck Institute and The New School for Social Research are organizing a workshop on the movement of scholars from perilous and intellectually-oppressive political situations to new environments that have allowed them to continue their work or even thrive … Continue reading

Welcome to ‘History of Knowledge’

Welcome to ‘History of Knowledge’

Knowledge does not simply exist, awaiting discovery and use. Knowledge is produced, adapted, forgotten, rejected, superseded, expanded, reconfigured, and more—always by human beings (at least in this more-or-less pre-AI age), alone or in communities,...