Civilizations before the advent of specialized academic knowledge and modern public museums often presented their accumulated learning through copious collections that amassed singular meaningful specimens in a display that mirrored in microcosm the complex reality of the universe.
CLA's collaborative explorations of the premodern era are so impressive that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a grant of more than $600,000 to create the initial structures for a newly integrated Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World (CSPW) at the University of Minnesota.
The history of climate science is just beginning to be written. Most versions have focused on the development of computerized general circulation models since WWII. It is time to imagine a...
Title: Chocolate and the Flowery World: Visual Culture, Sensory Experience, and the Columbian Exchange Abstract: This lecture centers around a chocolate still life (c. 1631) that is perhaps...
