Deadline Call for applications – KNIR Colloquia
Colloquium: Where did they get this? Distinguishing written and non-written sources of knowledge
The colloquium aims to bring together scholars working on pre-modern scientific/technical texts (broadly defined) to focus on the various questions surrounding (potential) non-written sources of written texts containing knowledge. In cases where no written source for...
Workshop: Handling Devotional Objects in Late Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Materiality, Mobility, Anxiety
This Colloquium looks into the materiality and mobility of small, portable devotional objects so central in Catholic devotion, such as crucifixes, blessed beads, images, rosaries, medals and the wax talismans known as Agnus Dei. Taking cue from the so-called material...
Workshop: Culture Wars as a Historical Concept and Political Phenomenon
The rising temperature of controversies surrounding such issues as “cancel culture,” “cultural Marxism,” and “woke-ism” are arguably just the latest instance of the much longer history of socio-cultural divides that occasionally erupt into a full-blown “culture war.”...-
Datum
18 mei - 19 mei 2023
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