Discussion of “Conrad Gessner and Information Management: Three Case Studies”

 Illustration in a note book of Conrad Gesner showing the tulip he saw in the garden of Johann Heinrich Herwart, Augsburg, 1557

Date and Time

December 12, 2025
10:15AM - 12:00PM EST

Location

On Zoom

Host: Global Information History Workshop

Speaker: Mikhail Sergeev (The National Library of Russia, St Petersburg)


(Work-in-progress paper)

Topic: Information Management & Humanism

Readings: Conrad Gessner, information management and the Renaissance (tba)


 

 

Global Information History Workshop

Co-organised by Yuval Givon (Jerusalem), Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard) and Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Basel). Co-hosted by the University of Basel, Harvard University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LMU Munich and the University of Zurich.

Each Zoom session takes place 10.15am–noon Eastern Time / 16.15–18.00 Central European Time. Zoom links and the readings for each session will be circulated in advance.

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