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Illustration in a note book of Conrad Gesner showing the tulip he saw in the garden of Johann Heinrich Herwart, Augsburg, 1557

Mikhail Sergeev, The National Library of Russia, St Petersburg, “Conrad Gessner and Information Management: Three Case Studies”

Illustration in a note book of Conrad Gesner showing the tulip he saw in the garden of Johann Heinrich Herwart, Augsburg, 1557

(Work-in-progress paper)

Topic: Information Management & Humanism

Readings: Conrad Gessner, information management and the Renaissance (tba)

Global Information History Workshop

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.

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.