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....
30 november 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....
27 september 2021
Central to this KNIR colloquium are collections of plaster face casts, found in anthropological museums all over Europe. Plaster face casts were made by anthropologists who created moulds by applying plaster to the faces of non-western people, brought the moulds to...