Blog post by Sandra Kemp, V&A project Principal Investigator, on the AHRC/LABEX cross-project workshop on transnational interdisciplinary research. …Connections between the many become locally denser until at some point a threshold is reached and things begin to flow. Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics 1, 2010, 157 Last week the AHRC/LABEX brought together researchers from its eight funded … Continue reading “Ideas in a different modality”: Interdisciplinarity and Transnationalism
Tag: Universal Histories
Introducing the case studies
Post by Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. After Sandra’s post introducing the Universal Histories and Universal Museums research project, it is now my turn to introduce the case studies. Indeed, my role as postdoctoral researcher on the project focuses on the archival research for these case studies, working alongside Sandra’s in London and … Continue reading Introducing the case studies
Introducing the project
Sandra Kemp, V&A project Principal Investigator, is our first blogger. We are launching the 'Universal Histories and Universal Museums’ website to coincide with the call for papers for the first project workshop. This collaboration between the V&A, the Musée du quai Branly and the Université Paris Nanterre aims to develop a comparative critique of approaches … Continue reading Introducing the project