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By Guest Contributor John D’Amico On April 1, 2019, the government of Japan announced the name of the new era. With the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the accession of Crown Prince Naruhito, the curtain falls on the Heisei period… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Sarah Pickman For those with an interest in fashion history, springtime in New York City heralds the opening of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual summer Costume Institute exhibition. The Costume Institute show (this year’s is “Camp:… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Alexandra Leonzini Given how outwardly nationalistic the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is, it may surprise the casual “NK watcher” to find detailed references to the lives and works of eighteenth and nineteenth-century European composers in… Continue Reading →
For those in Philadelphia on May 3rd, feel warmly welcome to attend the 2019 Lovejoy Lecture, sponsored by the JHI. Professor Joy Connolly will discuss “Agency and Imagination in the Making of Classical Canons,” harmonizing with the theme of the… Continue Reading →
With the support of the Penn History Department and Penn SASGov, we are delighted to announce the program for our inaugural graduate symposium. All are warmly invited to attend the three panels as well as the afternoon workshops, which will… Continue Reading →
By Guest Contributor Elizabeth Buckheit One of my favorite hypothetical games is to categorize all humanity in the vein of the adage “there are two types of people in the world.” To give a very silly example, I can say… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Luna Sarti This year several events will take place across the world to celebrate Leonardo da Vinci on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. In Florence, where Leonardo lived and worked for several years,… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Jonathon Catlin The New York Consortium for Intellectual History recently hosted Dagmar Herzog (CUNY) for a discussion of her new book, Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (Wisconsin, 2018). Three scholars offered responses: Danilyn… Continue Reading →
By contributing editor Andrew Hines How do human beings understand each other? This question has both a linguistic and a political dimension. Last month, as world leaders gathered at the Swiss town of Davos for the Annual Meeting of the World… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 80, number 1 (January 2019), is now available in print, and online at Project Muse. The table of contents is as follows: Spencer J. Weinreich, “Hagiography by the Book: Bibliomancy… Continue Reading →
