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Monthly Archive: January 2018

Negotiating and Communicating Evidence: Lessons from the Anthropocene Debate

Skepticism and debate are always welcome and are critically important to the advancement of science. . . . Skepticism that fails to account for evidence is no virtue.

The executive director of the American Meteorological Society, Keith Seitter, made this distinction about skepticism in his letter to the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Energy, Rick Perry, on June 21, 2017.… Continue reading

Circulation of Knowledge

The folks at the New History of Knowledge project have published an informative book entitled Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge, edited by Johan Östling et al. (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2018). The book is available to read without restrictions as an open access PDF file. The introduction includes useful information about the history of knowledge in relation to other subfields of history.

Calls for History of Knowledge

Calls for History of Knowledge

  1. The Global Knowledge of Economic Inequality: The Measurement of Income and Wealth Distribution since 1945,” deadline: February 28, 2018
  2. Dynamiken des Wissens: Historische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Wissen und Migration vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart,” deadline: February 28, 2018
  3. Call for Applications: Explorative Workshops ‘Mobility—Knowledge—Society’,” deadline: March 9, 2018