14 februari 2023
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...
14 februari 2023
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.”...
22 februari 2022
How to present uncertain knowledge? What did, and what do, mapmakers do when they are not sure? This posed a large problem in early modern times, the so-called ‘age of exploration’. Where and how to insert whole new continents, disputed discoveries,...
9 december 2021
Questa tavola rotonda fa parte del KNIR Colloquium “Us versus Them. Exploring Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins” organizzato da dr. Maria Bonaria Urban (Direttrice degli Studi di Storia, KNIR), dr. Monica Jansen e dr. Reindert...
30 november 2021
This hybrid public lecture by prof. Federico Finchelstein (The New School for Social Research, New York) is part of the KNIR Colloquium “Us versus Them. Exploring Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins” organized by dr....
