BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Roundtable at RSA: Information in Motion in the Early Modern Period PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1579789_0 SUMMARY:Roundtable at RSA: Information in Motion in the Early Modern Period DESCRIPTION:

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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 will focus especially on the movements of information across places, generations, and social and intellectual contexts in the early modern period. The chair and participants have all contributed to a forthcoming volume entitled Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton University Press, 2021) and will reflect on that experience. They variously focus on the people, materials, institutions, and practices involved in the circulation of information, among them spies and diplomats, bells, postal systems, education, forgery and plagiarism, medical casebooks, and much more. Time-place contextual considerations will also be discussed, from Renaissance Italy and Reformation Zurich to early modern England and colonial America.

Session Monitors

Ann M. Blair Harvard University
Anthony Grafton Princeton University

Participants

Alexander Fisher University of British Columbia
Anja-Silvia Goeing Harvard University
Earle A. Havens Johns Hopkins University
Lauren Kassell Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
David Henkin University of California Berkeley
Paul M. Dover Kennesaw State University

LOCATION:Online: For more information, please see event details STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20210422T180000Z DTEND:20210422T193000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR