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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Heavens and Earth: An Empirical Approach to Knowledge Ac
 ross Cultures– gloknos Annual Lecture Series - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*Unfortunately\, this lecture has been cancelled due to Covid-
 19 – we hope to reschedule in the future\, so check "our website":www.gl
 oknos.ac.uk for more details.*\n\ngloknos Annual Lecture Series – Sonja 
 Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)\n\n_This lectur
 e has been rescheduled from 14 June 2019\, when it was cancelled due to un
 foreseen weather problems._\n\nAbstract: In my talk I wish to make a case 
 for strengthening empirical studies of knowledge available across cultures
  without anchoring it in any specific theoretical approach. Over the years
 \, I have come across an increasing number of theory-guided studies of kno
 wledge transfer across the Old World or between the Old and New World that
  produced results contradicting empirically derived knowledge about such p
 rocesses. As one step to regain a better empirical grounding of our theore
 tical debates and to overcome dichotomic evaluations of cross-cultural mov
 ements of knowledge\, we are currently undertaking an interdisciplinary lo
 ng-durée project for most parts of the Old World about visual representat
 ions of the heavens and their relations to materials\, narratives\, social
  status\, and cultural meaning. I will present this project and some of it
 s themes\, objects\, and methods. In the second part of my talk I will dis
 cuss my earlier work on a number of maps and how those empirical studies c
 hanged my outlook on relations between various societies in Europe and in 
 the Islamicate world.\n\ngloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the Eu
 ropean Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr.Inanna 
 Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022) ERC grant no. 724451.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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