Public Lectures: Food, Archaeology, and Art
This KNIR Research Dialogue consists of two lectures: What did we eat before pizza? The archaeology of food and consumption in the Medieval Mediterranean (Joanita Vroom) True knowledge is achieved when the deepest scholarly ideas converge with the shallowest clichés....
Public Lecture: The Renaissance Confusion of Africa
During the Renaissance in Europe, information about the African continent, particularly the Sahel and sub-Saharan regions, was rediscovered from classical antiquity. This information merged with ideas and concepts brought to Europe by contemporary travelers. This...
Public Lecture: ‘Taking it like candy’: Medicinal Chocolate and the Society of Jesus
By the seventeenth-century, chocolate – most widely consumed in beverage form – was the drink de jour for many and its curative powers were being heralded by doctors and laymen alike in treatises and chronicles. My paper, “Taking it like candy,” examines the...
Public Lecture: Museums as Archives. Cultural Emergence, Disappearance, and Reemergence through Museum Collections
Recent academic and societal debates on the role of museums have emphasized the work of collections and exhibitions in creating and enforcing enduring notions of local, national, or more recently ‘global’ identities. In fact, since at least the 1960s, the political...-
Datum
26 september 2023
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Tijd
17:30 - 19:00
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