Congratulations to Professors Elizabeth Hennessy and Christy Clark-Pujara, who have received a 5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative for “Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine”! According to the grant: “There are two significant barriers to just futures in the sciences: lack of awareness of histories of …
Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Brepols, 2021) The volume contributes to reconstruction of medieval and early modern gaming culture through analysis of visual and material evidence. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, games were not an idle pastime, but were in fact important tools for exploring, transmitting, enhancing, …
Professor Joe Dennis is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany. His research there is focused on the history of Chinese school libraries and legal education. To conduct his research, Dennis makes use of LoGaRT, a set of online digital tools for investigating a historical resource …