Patterns and Principles in Rens Bod: juli 2021

donderdag 29 juli 2021

Program "The Making of the Humanities IX" is now available!

The preliminary program of "The Making of the Humanities IX" conference in Barcelona (20-22 September 2021) is now available online and can be found here.

Please note that due to the circumstances surrounding COVID19, the entirety of the 2021 conference will be digital.

If you would like to join for what promises to be an excellent set of presentations, you can find instructions for registering here.

Issue 6.1 of History of Humanities has been published

The latest issue of History of Humanities is now online! With a Theme section on “Sounds of Language—Languages of Sound”, a Forum section on “The Rise and Decline of ‘Colonial Humanities'”, two regular articles, 2 review essays, and 13 book reviews.

Two quotes from respectively the Theme and the Forum sections:

“Our findings support authors who have recently questioned the supposed divide between the humanities and sciences.”

“The humanities are still in urgent need of being decolonized and deprovincialized.”

See https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/2021/6/1

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/

Discussieer mee over De Vergeten Wetenschappen

donderdag 29 juli 2021

Program "The Making of the Humanities IX" is now available!

Issue 6.1 of History of Humanities has been published