Friday, 24 October 2025: Memory, History & Information
Work-in-progress paper: John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
“Memoire, Memory, History, Information: A Personal View”
Readings: Memoir, memory and information (tba)
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Friday, 14 November 2025: Intercultural Diplomacy & Self-Fashioning
Work-in-progress paper: Aditi Gupta, University of Oxford
“Gentil in Images: Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century India”
Readings: Colonial India, diplomacy and European collecting (tba)
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Friday, 12 December 2025: Information Management & Humanism
Work-in-progress paper: Mikhail Sergeev, The National Library of Russia, St Petersburg
“Conrad Gessner and Information Management: Three Case Studies”
Readings: Conrad Gessner, information management and the Renaissance (tba)
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Save the Date: Annual GIH Symposium on Friday, 8 May 2026 (tba)
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Each Zoom session takes 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.
GIH workshop is co-organised by Yuval Givon (Jerusalem), Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard) and Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Basel). Co-hosted by the University of Basel, Harvard University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LMU Munich and the University of Zurich.
Generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).