Category: Material Culture

Censorship in Early Modern Europe and its Ramifications with Hannah Marcus

Early Modern, History of the Book, Material Culture

What is censorship? How can we identify it, and understand how it functions and what are its effects? Hannah Marcus joins us for a fascinating discussion about her research on the history of the censorship of scientific and medical texts in early modern Italy which opens up a wide-ranging set of issues about the nature of censorship in historical context and the control of knowledge in more recent times, too.

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What Happens to Jewish Culture Without Jews with Alanna Cooper and Hillel Smith

American Jewish History, Anthropology, Art, Material Culture, Projects and Initiatives

What happens to our stuff when we’re gone? Hillel Smith and Alanna Cooper join the podcast to talk about their projects that consider what happens to Jewish communities and their stuff, both buildings and objects, especially when we look at communities and synagogues that shrink, disappear, merge together, or move from one place to another.

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