Mobilizing Chinese Information and Media in Early Modern France
How the History of Information Can Inform Global Conceptual and Intellectual Histories of Governance and Infrastructure
Event Details
Date
Monday, March 17, 2025
Time
4 p.m.
Location
Description
This lecture is the second in a series, “The Lure of Information: Reexamining Information/Information Studies in the Sinographic World,” planned for the 2024-25 academic year as part of the Borghesi-Mellon Workshops in the Humanities. Prof. De Weerdt will discuss how key concepts of modernity such as citizenship and infrastructure have since early modern times been shaped by European encounters and engagement with Chinese and East Asian practices of information gathering.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email ldennis@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.