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History of Knowledge @histknowledge

Companion to blog at @GHIWashington. 🔁 & 🔗 ≠ endorsements. #histknow #histsci #infohistory #bookhistory and more.

Joined December 2016
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See the upcoming online discussion organized by @migknow members of possible interest to our readers: (June 24): Lost Knowledge and Migration: Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori 5-6 PM (CET) ghi-dc.org/events/event... @ghiwashington.bsky.social
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We are moving! We will keep our X account for a few more weeks, but we will be posting henceforth from Bluesky. Please follow us there: @histknowledge .bsky.social to keep following our blog about History of Knowledge: historyofknowledge.hypothese….
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We've mirrored a call for papers on the history of knowledge of possible interest to our readers from @nhknowledge: historyofknowledge.hypothese…

The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Mirrors a call for papers from for a conference in October at LUCK, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, from October 8-10, 2025

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See new post on our sister blog, hosted by @ghiwest and @GHIWashington of @webertweets
Migrant Knowledge@MigKnow
3 Jan 2025
New post today by Erika Rosado Valencia of @UniFAU about @Ecuador's self-presentation at the Columbian Exhibition @ColumbianEx1893 and in the publication "El Ecuador in Chicago": migrantknowledge.org/2025/01…
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See the new blogpost on our sister blog #MigKnow of @GHIWashington and @ghiwest of @webertweets.
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17 Dec 2024
See our new blogpost by Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, @MSCActions scholar, on #ThirdCultureKids as a subgroup of #migrants with their own forms of #knowledge @XploreLifeStory : migrantknowledge.org/2024/12…
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New blogpost today by Alice Weinreb of @loyolahistdept on @HildeBruch and her role in establishing #anorexia nervosa as a disease @AllianceforED @aedweb @BDD_anorexia @SWAN_Research: historyofknowledge.hypothese…

Anorexia Nervosa: Hilde Bruch and the Construction of Eating Disorders

Explores the construction of the psychiatric category of eating disorders in the 1970s through an analysis of the archive of psychiatrist Hilde Bruch.

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See our new blogpost by Laura-Elena Keck of @UniLeipzig of the #Pandemic Space project of @ReCentGlobe on efforts to stop #mosquitoes from spreading disease. historyofknowledge.hypothese…

Stowaway Mosquitoes and Twentieth-century Quarantine Knowledge 

Argues that following the traces of mosquitoes can provide valuable insights into the history of quarantine in the twentieth century, the relationship between medical knowledge and public health, and...

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See the new post on our sister blog #MigKnow curated by @GHIWashington's @ghiwest of @webertweets
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8 Nov 2024
New post today by Ecem Nazlı Üçok of @UniKarlova Dept. of #Sociology elucidates the importance of researchers acknowledging their #positionality and #emotional labor in their work: migrantknowledge.org/2024/11…
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New Knowledge Notes with links to conference calls, job ads, colloquia, etc., including new Master's course at @ETH_en Zurich the History and Philosophy of Knowledge: historyofknowledge.hypothese…

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.

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See our @GHIWashington and @ghiwest-hosted sister blog's new post. Highlights connections to our own blog, @InGlobalTransit, and other publications and initiatives arising out of the blog. @webertweets
Migrant Knowledge@MigKnow
7 Oct 2024
In our new blogpost today, the blog's new content editor Viola Alianov-Rautenberg interviews one of the blog founders, @SwenSteinberg, about the first five years of the Migrant Knowledge network and blog: migrantknowledge.org/2024/10…
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See our new blogpost today by historian Mareen Heying of RUB's Institute for Social Movements and @STAGEPROJECTEU on the #scientization of #drunkenness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in #Germany: historyofknowledge.hypothese…

An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness

Contrasts three interpretations of drunkenness within the academic discourse of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: drunkenness as a disease, as an addiction, and as a form of degeneration and...

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New Knowledge Notes with info about grants, conferences and jobs related to the history of knowledge historyofknowledge.net/2024/…
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Recent @WaxmannVerlag published expert on #food history Alwin Cubasch of @HumboldtUni contributed a new blogpost on food #knowledge gleaned in #space. @NASAhistory: historyofknowledge.net/2024/…
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See the new blogpost on our sister blog of @ghiwest of @webertweets.
Migrant Knowledge@MigKnow
19 Jun 2024
A new post by @LauraStielike of @IMIS_UOS @UniOsnabrueck has dropped, examining the #Politics of the production of #Knowledge in #Migration Studies: migrantknowledge.org/2024/06…
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See the new post on our sister blog of @ghiwest @MigKnow concluding the Texas Germans miniseries on transfers of knowledge among German immigrants to the state, on @Wurstfest @webertweets: migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…

Wurstfest: A Culinary, Cultural, and Economic Masterpiece

Looks at the ethnic, cultural, and economic factors that drove the development of Wurstfest, one of the biggest German ethnic festivals in the United States.

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29 May 2024
New #MigKnow Notes post today featuring CfPs, conferences, lectures, and books relevant to #migration #history. See especially the CfP by network member @tvmartinez for a thematic section for the journal The History of Intellectual Culture migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…
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We have a new post today by the author of this book presenting his key argument about academic virtues and Sovietization of science in #Poland. historyofknowledge.net/2024/…

History of Science in CESEE@hpscesee
13 Nov 2023
Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956. New York, Milton Park: Routledge 2023. ISBN 9781032549491
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See the blogpost on the impact of Richard Petri's paintings of Native Americans on #TexasGermans on our sister blog @MigKnow @GHIWashington @ghiwest @webertweets migrantknowledge.org/2024/05…

Knowledge between Romanticism and Reverence: German-American Perceptions of Native Americans...

Examines the knowledge and images of Native Americans conveyed through the art of Texas German Richard Petri.

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New blogpost today by @MalinWilckens of @IEG_Mainz on #Blumenbach and #skull collecting. #race #science: historyofknowledge.net/2024/…
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See the new miniseries blogpost on our sister blog on @Texan-@NativeAmericans relations on the frontier. @GHIWashington @webertweets
Migrant Knowledge@MigKnow
19 Apr 2024
We continue @DrJanaWeiss 's curated miniseries on #TexasGermans with a post on John O. Meusebach and the #knowledge of #Comanches he had in setting out to make the treaty with them: migrantknowledge.org/2024/04…
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