Ulinka Rublack on Early Modern Microscopic Records
Stefan Hanß: Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge. Her pioneering publications on early modern material and visual culture, gender history, the history of the body, and...
“Within a Chain of Lifeforms”: Sujit Sivasundaram on Interspecies Frontiers, Microscopic Records, and Waves Across the South
Stefan Hanß: Sujit Sivasundaram is Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. His work on the eighteenth-century Indian and Pacific Oceans is of breathtaking innovativeness and brings global history...
Reconstructing the Minute Material World of Early Modern Textiles: Maarit Kalmakurki on Clothing and Textile Studies in the Digital Age
Stefan Hanß: Maarit Kalmakurki, MA, is a doctoral candidate at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation investigates the notions of digital character’s costume design in computer-animated feature films. Maarit...
Science at the Museum: An Interview with Paola Ricciardi
Stefan Hanß: Paola Ricciardi is Senior Research Scientist at the Fitzwilliam Museum, which is part of the University of Cambridge, where she is responsible for the scientific and technical analysis of cultural heritage artefacts. She has a particular expertise in...
Making Beyond the Lab: Sven Dupré on Bridging Early Modern Art, Science, and Technology
Stefan Hanß: Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. His research explores the role of materials and making in the early modern arts and sciences. He edited Laboratories of Art (Springer,...
Consider the Strawberry: Rachel Winchcombe on Small-Scale Food Encounters in Early Colonial Northern America
Stefan Hanß: Dr Rachel Winchcombe is a cultural, environmental, food, and emotional historian of early modern England and America. Her monograph Encountering Early America discusses the broader sixteenth-century English colonial discourse about ‘the New World’ and...
Pamela H. Smith on the Significance of Microscopic Records for Renaissance How-To Knowledge
Stefan Hanß: The research of Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, inspires early modern historians all around the globe. She published widely on early modern alchemy, crafts, and...
Imaging Scribal Practice: Hannah Lilley on what Microscopic Records tell us about Scribes in Early Modern England
Stefan Hanß: Dr Hannah Lilley is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Birmingham and a member of the AHRC-funded project The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort: Writing and Material Culture 1560–1660. This project aims to transform our understanding...
Renaissance Clothing and Craftspeople: Paula Hohti Erichsen on the Microscopic Records of Early Modern Textiles in the Age of Digital and Hands-On Research
Stefan Hanß: Paula Hohti Erichsen, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Culture at Aalto University, is an expert of Italian Renaissance textiles, fashion, and the decorative arts. She is scientific director of the European Research Council consolidator-grant...
Swords in the Age of Shakespeare: Marc Gener-Moret on Archaeometallurgy and Microscopic Records of Early Modern Rapiers
Stefan Hanß: Marc Gener-Moret is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and an expert in historical weaponry. Having been trained in physics, materials sciences, and archaeology, he...
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