Tag: history
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Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for 2025-2026!
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab, the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures, and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP, CNRC, and CPS hope…
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Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for Spring 2025!
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP and CPS hope to foster discussion about the ways in which the study of…
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Announcement: Call for Fellowship Applications
Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Year 2: Comparative Work Many of the lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American academy. Often,…
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