Friday, 9 February 2024: Ages of Information
Work-in-progress paper: Devin Fitzgerald (Yale)
“Big History in Octavo: Periodizing Global History through Codex Technologies”
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Friday, 8 March 2024: Global & Local Information
Work-in-progress paper: Miriam Campopiano (Venice)
“Maps, Atlases, and Gazettes: Global Knowledge and Local Representations of North America in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy”
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Friday, 12 April 2024: Travel & Borders
Work-in-progress paper: Sabrina Rospert (Basel)
“Rebellion on the Frontier. Habsburg Renegade Subjects and their Mobility within the Ottoman Border Zone (1660s-1670s)”
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Friday, 10 May 2024: Information Networks & Institutions
Input paper: Benjamin Steiner (Munich)
“Governance”
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Friday, 12 July 2024: Symposium Workshop on Agents & Messengers
Speakers: Ann Blair (Harvard), Friederike Philippe (Berlin) Philippe B. Schmid (Basel). Comment: Hansun Hsiung (Durham)
Program for download:
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Friday, 18 October 2024: Data Science & Medical Activism
Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham)
“The Moral Doctor: Data Science and the Medical Activism of James McCune Smith in Early Nineteenth Century Britain.”
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Friday, 15 November 2024: Diplomacy
Nina Lamal (Amsterdam)
“Contesting Bonfires: Ephemeral Diplomatic Celebrations in Early Modern Europe”.
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Friday, 6 December 2024: Writing Techniques
Kelly Minot McCay (Harvard)
“lay your pen-knife upon their characters”: Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England.
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Zoom sessions usually take place 10.15am–noon Eastern Time / 16.15–18.00 Central European Time. Zoom links and the readings for each session will be circulated in advance.
For more information, please email globinfohistworkshop@gmail.com.