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SUMMARY:“Knowledge and War: Paper Technologies in Early Modern Empires
 ” - gloknos Annual Lecture Series - Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxf
 ord)
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:gloknos is delighted to welcome Dr Erica Charters (University 
 of Oxford) to present a lecture as part of our annual series.\n\nAbstract:
 \nAlthough often overlooked by historians of science and knowledge\, war w
 as a key context for knowledge creation\, transmission\, and testing.  Thi
 s paper examines how knowledge of manpower – the most precious natural r
 esource in early modern empires – was developed\, recorded\, and communi
 cated across European empires.  Applying methods from the history of scien
 ce that examine the structure and nature of knowledge\, this paper argues 
 that military records should be seen as technologies of knowledge.  That i
 s\, these records shaped perceptions of how victory should be measured and
  presented\, what was a reasonable cost of war and\, more generally\, what
  was valuable: what counted to both military and imperial officials.\n \nS
 peaker:\nDr Erica Charters is Associate Professor in Global History and th
 e History of Medicine at the University of Oxford.  Her research examines 
 how war and disease intersect with state formation and state power\, parti
 cularly in colonial contexts. Her 2014 monograph Disease\, War\, and the I
 mperial State traces how responses to disease shaped military strategy\, m
 edical theory\, and the nature of British imperial authority.  Her current
  research focuses on manpower during the eighteenth century\, examining th
 e history of bodies as well as the history of methods used to measure and 
 enhance bodies\, labour\, and population as a whole.  She is particularly 
 interested in reconciling Enlightenment histories of a cosmopolitan Europe
  with military histories that portray the eighteenth century as a period o
 f near-constant military conflict\, in part by tracing how colonial war wa
 s a crucial part of Enlightenment intellectual developments. \n\n\ngloknos
  is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through 
 a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr. Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project AR
 TEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council un
 der the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research a
 nd Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451).
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