Patterns and Principles in Rens Bod: september 2014

maandag 1 september 2014

Interview with Rens Bod on the Humanities in the Digital Age

The most recent issue of InformatieProfessional contains an interview with Rens Bod on the future of the humanities in the digital age (in Dutch):

"Tien, hooguit twintig boeken gebruikt een masterstudent Literatuurwetenschap voor zijn scriptie. Stel nu dat hij een miljoen boeken met elkaar zou willen vergelijken. Hij kan ze onmogelijk allemaal lezen. Aangezien vele uitgaven zijn beschreven en gedigitaliseerd, kan hij er wel algoritmen uit de informatica op loslaten. Hier komt digital humanities om de hoek kijken."

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31 december 2023: Ik spreek in "OVT" over het tragische einde van Taqi al-Din's observatorium

12 December 2023: Lecture at VUB Brussels: "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?"

On 12 December at 16.15h, I will give a talk at the KIIP seminar entitled "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?". In this talk I will present a longue durée exploration of meaning-making from a global perspective. I argue that a total of 185 distinct meaning-making practices can be discerned that can be grouped into 30 themes. I discuss a number of general patterns and principles that can be found in meaning-making practices across the world and will go into the question as to what kind of knowledge meaning-making actually is. For more info, see https://events.vub.be/kiip-seminar-rens-bod

14-15 November 2023: Online Workshop "Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities"

On 14 November I will give a brief presentation to introduce the workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities. Why and how do humanities disciplines borrow knowledge from one another? Under what conditions has knowledge transfer been (un)successful in the past? And what light, if at all, do historical examples shed on current forms of (inter)disciplinarity? If you're interested in these questions, join our online workshop. For more info, see https://www.historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-meetings/workshop-epistemic-transfer/

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maandag 1 september 2014

Interview with Rens Bod on the Humanities in the Digital Age