[Presentation & discussion in a member’s meeting of
The Ticknor Society of Boston]
Several new dimensions for the study of the humanities have been opened up by the digital revolution. One of these involves our newly acquired capacity to read “old books” and view, share and analyze their maps and illustrations on a scale never previously possible. The result has led recently to a substantial re-assessment of much of what we thought we knew about the world and its evolution since 1492.
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Annual Ticknor Society Member “Show & Tell” Meeting
Virtual, Thursday, December 10, 6pm EST
ZOOM Session Link
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- Phoebe Bean, “A Woman’s Touch: Ann Franklin Imprints”
- John Hemenway, “Howland Island, Its Birds and Rats, as Observed by a Certain Mr. Stetson in 1854.”
- Jean Maguire, Nature and Design
- George F. Murphy, “Price of Books: Shabby American Imprints and the Legacy of Richard Price
- Tim Weiskel, “Some New Questions from Reading Old Books: Imagining & Imaging the Agro-Ecology & Pathology of European Empire”
See related:
- Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa: Philip D. Curtin
- Agents of Empire: Steps Toward an Ecology of Imperialism
- Agriculture, Topsoil and the Ecology of Colonialism
- Commerce and Cartography on Colonial Frontiers: Reexamining American & African History ~ through Maps
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 with Frank Snowden
- Maps and Epidemiology: Lessons for COVID-19: Virtual Mapping as Knowing Series Talk by Professor Frank Snowden | The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities
- Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade
- Harvard – History Design Studio – Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade
- Written in Stone: The Silent and Eerie Eloquence of Stone Structures in the Atlantic Trade
Historical Cartography and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Trade - Dr. Paul Farmer: Centuries of Inequality in the U.S. Laid Groundwork for Pandemic Devastation
- Medical historian Frank Snowden on how disease devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas
- Professor Frank Snowden on Forever Changed? The Probable Legacy of COVID-19
- How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now
- Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (The Open Yale Courses Series): Frank M. Snowden
- A Chapter in an Ongoing Crisis
- There will be no “post-COVID” world ….
and - The Sad and Sobering Reality: There Will Be No Post-Coronavirus Moment Ahead
as well as numerous re-assessments of the history of the Americas since the publication in 1983 of:
through the ensuing decades to the publication twenty-five years later of:
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The Ticknor Society in Boston holds an annual “Show & Tell” meeting of its members in which some of these themes will be discussed this year as an aspect of the ways in which new kinds of analysis can now be shared among international groups of book scholars, historical cartographers, medical historians and ethnobotanists because of the ongoing digital revolution in the humanities.
A brief summary of one of the “Show & Tell” talks is by scanning this QR code:
For additional information contact ticknorinfo@gmail.com
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