An interdisciplinary programme concerned with the ways knowledge, techniques, texts, images, objects and practices have travelled between regions and disciplines. It seeks to make visible both the diversity of contributions to human knowledge and the coherence of a common human inheritanceÂ
Project Leads: Minhyong Kim and Robin Osborne
Academic Advisory Board: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Lorraine Daston, Peter Frankopan, Mark Jarzombek, Glenn Most, Reviel Netz, Reinhard Strohm, Neil Turok, Marina Warner
With the collaboration of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, King's College Cambridge will host a constellation of activities with the goal of building awareness of world knowledge as a common heritage of humanity.
The first workshop will be take place at King's College Cambridge on 3 and 4 June, 2027
Books, articles, courses, projects and collections
A selective guide to scholarship on the circulation, exchange and transformation of knowledge across regions and disciplines.
As scholars, we resist a view of the world in which civilisations clash violently. When it comes to knowledge and culture, the mainstream interaction is and has always been circulation and collaboration across artificial boundaries.