#  Virtual AHA 2021 (New England Presenters): #294 SESSION A: The Social Life of Information , 1-2pm; #269 SESSION B: COMMODIFICATION OF INFORMATION 2-3pm EST 

 



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 **January 8, 2021** 

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 **Virtual AHA 2021**. **Friday January 8, 2021, 1-3pm EST**

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 **\#294 SESSION A: The Social Life of Information , 1-2pm**

 This session focuses on three genres of information transmission and retrieval and the social purposes which they serve: the weather bell, the dissertation, and the case (in medicine and law) in the service of a profession or a state (Lauren Kassell). The papers will focus on the contexts of early modern Europe and imperial China.

 **Chair: Anthony Grafton (Dept of History, Princeton University)**

 **Alexander Fisher (Dept of Music, University of British Columbia),** “Shattering the Lightning: Weather Bells, Confessional Space, and the Atmospherics of Demonology in Post-Reformation Germany”

 **Anja-Silvia Goeing (Dept of History, University of Zurich and Harvard University),** “Medical dissertations and their role in the transmission of information in early modern Europe”

 **Lauren Kassell (Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University),** “Cases and Casebooks”

 **\#269 SESSION B: COMMODIFICATION OF INFORMATION 2-3pm EST**

 This session focuses on information as a commodity available for sale or exchange. Though clearly relevant to very recent experience, these studies approach commoditization through close examination of historical cases. The session ranges from early modern European printed encyclopedias to the news industry in modern Europe and in interwar America.

 **Chair: Paul Duguid (UC Berkeley School of Information)**

 **Ann Blair (Dept of History, Harvard University),** “Early modern encyclopedic books as commodities”

 **Heidi Tworek (Dept of History, University of British Columbia),** “News Agencies”

 **Richard R. John (Depts of History and Communications, Columbia University),** “Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: Selling Information in Interwar America”



 

 



 

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