Past Events

Johannes Wierix after Marten van Cleve, 1568: A Pilgrim Tells A Woman Stories, no. 7 of the series „Flemish Proverbs“, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, D 6318, Public Domain Mark 1.0. 10 th Interdisciplinary Summer Course Knowledge Organization in the...

More Information: https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/21virtual/meetingapp.cgi/Session/4324 This roundtable will consider the appeal of using “information” as an organizing concept for historical study (as a complement to the history of ideas or of knowledge) and...

Part of the seminar series: Reflections on the Digital Turn in the Humanities and the Sciences Speakers: Anja-Silvia Goeing Professor at the University of Zürich and Associate in the History Department at Harvard University Douglas McCarthy Collections...

Princeton University, Program in East Asian Studies This talk considers the reading strategies suggested in Fang Yizhi’s 方以智(1611–1671) Tongya (通雅 Comprehensive Elegances), a major encyclopedic text of the seventeenth century. Registration required...

Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvf--qqzspEtRHNAAL3xL_fD8DPd… #294 SESSION A: The Social Life of Information , 1-2pm This session focuses on three genres of information transmission and retrieval and the social purposes...