The Strange Decline of the Global Imaginary
What has happened to the post-war global imaginary? Find out in this blog post by Björn Lundberg.
Adventures in Cross-Contextualizing Archives
How can different sources, archived centuries apart on disparate continents, speak productively to one another? This blogpost explores how cross-contextualization can help write new, global histories of knowledge.
The Renaissance Night Sky?
The painted sky not only fascinates kids at the museum, it also reveals an understanding of the Milky Way as shaped by the interaction of different types of knowledge.
Disegno and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Rome: tracing a new research topic
Members of two Accademie in Rome agreed that “All humans, by nature, desire knowledge,” yet their views on the role of disegno in knowledge acquisition differed. Walking around Rome helped reveal subtle differences and connections.
One Missing Document, and the Problem of Documenting History in the Imperial Archive
What started out as a simple paper chase soon became a project about Qing efforts to generate and track information about local administrative activities...
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