Libraries, Collections, Notes and the History of Knowledge

Prof. Dr. Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard/Zürich)

  This PhD workshop discusses the many ways in which information contributed to the development of human societies. By focusing on early modern cabinets und curiosities, libraries, archives and the material world of knowledge in Europe, the workshop not only scrutinizes the concept and reality of information in many new ways, but it also challenges commonly used interpretations of key events and developments in history by looking at them from the novel perspective of information.   Literature: Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony Grafton, eds. Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
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