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Classical Athens as an Epistemic Democracy
Chapter in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy: From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
July 2020
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the...
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
June 2020
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910.
In Praise of Depth: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hidden
February 2020
In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous.
Legitimacy in the ‘secular church’ of the United Nations
February 2020
This article argues that how the United Nations (UN) conceptualizes legitimacy is not only a matter of legalism or power politics.
Heidegger Never Got Beyond Facticity
December 2019
(1) The “thing itself” of Heidegger’s thinking was Ereignis. (2) But Ereignis is a reinscription of what Being and Time had called thrownness or facticity.
The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and Their Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Cameroon
September 2019
The relative educational returns on colonial versus indigenous language instruction in sub-Saharan countries have yet to be decisively estimated.
Networks of Enlightenment Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters
August 2019
The first volume that brings together the work of scholars pioneering digital approaches to the Republic of Letters Innovative applications of social network analysis and digital methods to provide...
Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works (Transforming Literary Studies)
April 2019
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition.
Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts
January 2019
This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience.
Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
August 2018
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M.
Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World, Edited by Paula Findlen
August 2018
Empires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena...
Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds
August 2018
When did European modes of political thought diverge from those that existed in other world regions?
Projecting Nature: Agostino Scilla’s Seventeenth-Century Fossil Drawings
August 2018
In 1670 the Sicilian painter Agostino Scilla (1629–1700) devised an entirely new way of depicting fossils when he wrote and illustrated his Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (1670–1671), which...
Authenticity, Complaint, and the Russianness of American Jewish Literature
July 2018
Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and their critics embraced the notion that their work displayed an affinity to Russian and Yiddish literature, especially to the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
April 2018
We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology.
Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes
April 2018
Word embeddings are a powerful machine-learning framework that represents each English word by a vector.
The German-Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts)
February 2018
In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany — the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as...
The Litsevoi Svod as Graphic Novel Narrativity in Iconographic Style
January 2018
In Orhan Pamuk’s brilliant novel about seeing and beauty, My Name Is Red, miniaturists at the Sultan’s court exemplify historical tensions in 16th-century Ottoman artistic culture.
Josep Pla: Seeing the World in the Form of Articles
June 2017
Josep Pla is Catalonia’s foremost twentieth-century prose writer.
Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project
April 2017
What can a big data approach bring to the study of the early modern Republic of Letters? This is the question we asked ourselves in our collaborative project Mapping the Republic of Letters.
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Russell A. Berman Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Comparative Literature, Professor, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution