‘Chasing Unicorns and Amassing Rhinos to Think About the History of Knowledge’

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Unicorn (Monoceros). Conrad Gesner, Historiae Animalium; liber primus, qui est de quadrupedibus viviparis, Zurich, 1551. retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historiae_animalium_1551_De_Monocerote.jpg

Do not miss our next session on: 

‘Chasing Unicorns and Amassing Rhinos to Think About the History of Knowledge’
with Bruno A Martinho (HEC3) & Camille Sallé (HEC1)

Monday 5/12/2016, 17:00-19:00
Location: Sala dei Levrieri, Villa Salviati, European University Institute, Florence

How do historians of knowledge and science deal with materials? And what do materials do to the history of knowledge? Reversely, how are notions of science and knowledge approached by historians of material culture? This session will be centred on a case study presented by Bruno A. Martinho, and will aim at opening the discussion on these questions and some methodological issues encountered when approaching material culture. Especially, we will examine the extent to which those questions related to material culture and materiality can bring together and blur the lines between various fields of history. We will consider the possibility of thinking outside categories produced by material culturel/history of science approaches, as well as more powerful questionnaires obtained from crossed methodologies.

 


About Déborah Dubald

Docteure du Département d'Histoire de l'Institut Universitaire Européen à Florence (2019). Spécialiste des savoirs sur la nature et l'environnement au XIXe siècle, de l'histoire des collections et du patrimoine scientifique. Doctor of History of the European University Institute (2019). I am interested in the history of natural and environmental knowledge and in the nineteenth century, in naturalist museums and collections, in knowledge and science practices, usually at the scale of the urban or the local.

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