Global History of Knowledge
Our team is committed to the study of knowledge in its broadest sense, encompassing both ideas and practices in all its historical variety. We look at what people regarded as knowledge, how they created, collected, circulated and used it, also why it mattered to them, and how all this was embedded in political, socio-economic, cultural and religious contexts.
News
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Patient or Test Subject? In Search of Forgotten Voices in the Dutch East Indies -
Larissa Schulte Nordholt: ‘In colonial territories, local and European agricultural knowledge intermingled’ -
Louie Buana receives Philippus Corts Fund grant -
Carolien Stolte appointed visiting professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome -
COIn grant enables Leiden researchers to improve their research infrastructure
Events
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The 'public' in colonial public medicine: emerging medical practices in colonial Malaya
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Nuclear Power and Decolonisation in Africa (1957-1963)
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Polanyi in the garden; food, farming and the economization of rural Java
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'The wisest man nevertheless knows not the nature of a fever’. Global Histories of Knowledge and the (Dis-) Order of Fevers, 1770-1830
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Out of Nusantara, Out of Mind: The Political Afterlife of Java Man in Contemporary Indonesia
Major Publications
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Sun, Emperor and Pope: Neoplatonic Solar Worship in Mughal India and Barberini Rome -
History of the Humanities: A New Field of Study -
Key Issues in Historical Theory - Second Edition -
Vices of the Learned. Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices -
Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities: Explorations of a Discourse