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ISIH 2022: Histories of Knowledge: Political, Historical and Cultural Epistemologies in Intellectual History (Conference, 12-15 September, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

September 12, 2022

https://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=6723 Keynotes: Vera Keller (University of Oregon) and Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) The International Society for Intellectual History is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 2022...

Forgeries in History: Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection at Johns Hopkins University awarded a $223,000 grant

June 18, 2022

Johns Hopkins was just awarded a $223,000 grant from the Arcadia Fund to fully digitize and make freely accessible all 1,800 rare books and manuscripts in the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection over the 2022-23 academic year. These will appear alongside the...

Explain Yourself: Visual Communication in Early Modern Printed Calendars

May 14, 2021

The link leads to a blog post version of part of Ashley Gonik's current chapter on calendars. It was published on the GHI's History of Knowledge blog.

From Ashley Gonik's research vlog: a travel to Antwerp in 2019

May 16, 2021

Visit and research time at the Museum Plantin-Moretus--among many other libraries, archives and museums..... (eps 1, 2, and 3) .

Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for the Curious Mind. Dr Waseem Akhtar spoke with Paul Duguid about the History of Information

April 19, 2021

Waseem and Paul start their discussion by exploring the concept of “information age” and addressing the question: has every age been an information age or is this title unique to this present time. They then discuss the significance of viewing history...

CfA: Journal History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) (Deadline May 17, 2021)

May 17, 2021

History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is a new international and interdisciplinary open access yearbook for peer-reviewed papers, published by De Gruyter. The yearbook is also a continuation of the journal by the same name founded in 2001. Our approach...

Information Cultures Series at John Hopkins University Press

March 05, 2021

Editors: Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton, Earle Havens This series is directed toward a broad scholarly readership interested in the material and cultural circumstances that have surrounded and shaped the production, reading, and public consumption of texts...

Ann Blair on Books in Circulation at Lapham's Quarterly

January 27, 2021

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/multitude-books

Tony Grafton on Sherlock Holmes and the History of Information

January 28, 2021

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/sherlock-holmes-and-the-history-of-in…

Adam Curtis, Can't Get You Out of My Head (BBC documentary)--REVIEW LINK

February 13, 2021

Lucy Mangan's review of Adam Curtis' 6 part BBC documentary, Can't Get You Out of My Head, at THE GUARDIAN, Feb 11, 2021