Summary
The Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) was founded by Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya in autumn 2017 with support from the European Research Council, and inaugurated at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, in autumn 2018.
gloknos (/'glɒnɒs/) is a multi-disciplinary research centre and intellectual community concerned with the constitution, diffusion, exchange, and use of human knowledges throughout history. It aims to foster advanced cross-disciplinary research and pedagogical training in Global Epistemics, as well as cross-sectorial exchanges and initiatives, through a global network of associate members and partners engaged in academic and public-oriented collaborations and activities, an institutional and virtual infrastructure, and a range of scientific and public dissemination channels dedicated to the diffusion of its research outputs to the widest audience.
Visit the Centre's website for more information.
gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022), under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451).
Annual Lecture Series
Book Launches
| Book Launches: 2018-19 |
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| Book Launch – Western Dominance in International Relations? – gloknos Sponsored Event 21 January 2019, London School of Economics |
| Book Launch – Canguilhem 20 May 2019, Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Book Launch – Making the World Global: US Universities & the Production of the Global Imaginary 11 June 2019, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Book Launch – The Transforming Power of Cultural Rights: A Promising Law and Humanities Approach 17 June 2019, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Cambridge Connects
| Domestication Practices across History Reading Group: 2019-20 |
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| Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture 04 November 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Classical Heredity in the Roman and Medieval Worlds 18 November 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Commanding Nature in Early Modern Europe 02 December 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Empires of Acclimatisation 16 December 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| The Mendelian Gene Goes Global 20 January 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Politics of Hybridisation 03 February 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Alternate Twentieth-Century Biotechnologies 17 February 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Engaging Modern Genetic Practices 02 March 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Global Imaginaries through the Ages Reading Group: 2019-20 |
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| Prehistory: Agriculture and the Societal Imaginary 28 October 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Mobile Knowledges before the Classics 11 November 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Global Classics? 25 November 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Economic Globalisation in the late First Millennium 09 December 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Imperial Imaginaries and the Making of Modernity 13 January 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Towards the Modern Subject 27 January 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| The Imaginaries We Were Born Into 10 February 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Hyper Globalism and the Retreat to the Local 24 February 2020, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Knowledge and Digital Capitalism Reading Group: 2018-19 Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism
16 October 2018, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHCognitive Capitalism
30 October 2018, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHPlatform Capitalism | Algorithmic Governance
13 November 2018, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHDownloading the Dreaming
27 November 2018, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHOrdering Knowledge
22 January 2019, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHAnticipatory Uncertainty
05 February 2019, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHFuture Science
19 February 2019, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHOpen Access
05 March 2019, Room 220, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 8PHTeaching Machines
30 April 2019, Room 2S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQDatafication
14 May 2019, Room 2S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQDigital Literacy
28 May 2019, Room 2S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQDigital Education
11 June 2019, Room 2S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ
| Ontopolitics of the Future Reading Group: 2018-19 |
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| Ontological Politics 11 October 2018, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| The Politics of Life Itself 25 October 2018, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Excavating Contemporary Capitalism 08 November 2018, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Geontologies 22 November 2018, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Ontopower 17 January 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Climate Leviathan 31 January 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Toxic Politics & Nuclear Bunkers 14 February 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Global Health Security | Cryopolitics 28 February 2019, Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Scopic Regimes | The Machine That Ate Bad People 14 March 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Non-Human Politics 25 April 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Ontofeminism 09 May 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| After Extinction 23 May 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Living on a Damaged Planet 07 June 2019, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Cum Panis Seminars
| Cum Panis Seminars: 2018-19 |
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| States of Emergence, States of Knowledge: On International Relations Theorising in Rising Powers 06 November 2018, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Intangible Material Culture: Technical Knowledge Transfer in Architecture 28 January 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Ranking the World: Globalising Status Competition in International Society 14 February 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| The Power of Agnosis and the Politics of the Unknown 14 May 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Becoming Worldly: Relationality as Methodology – gloknos 30 May 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Agriculture and Anti-Imperialism: The Transnational Career of Pandurang Khankhoje 04 June 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Consent, Prosent and Biomedical Data in the Era of Blockchain– gloknos seminar 10 June 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| The Burning Issue: Hazy Relations and the Construction of Knowledge in Land Management Fires 20 June 2019, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Deep History Symposia
The first event in gloknos’s Deep History Symposia series will take place in 2020. More information will be available nearer the event date.
Global Epistemics Summer School
gloknos will host the first Global Epistemics Summer School in July 2019. More information about speakers and activities will be made available soon.
Ideas Lab
| Ideas Labs: 2018-19 |
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| Norming Knowledges: The gloknos Ideas Lab 29 January 2019, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, Cambridge, CB3 9EU |
The Post-Disciplinary Initiative
More information coming soon.
Public Events
| Public Events: 2018-19 |
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| GM Crops in Human History – Cambridge Festival of Science 15 March 2019, Room SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
| Objects: Carriers of Knowledge – Cambridge Festival of Science 19 March 2019, Lecture Theatre 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX |