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About
For current gloknos events and updates please visit the Centre’s external website.
About gloknos
The Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) was founded by Professor Inanna Hamati-Ataya in 2017 with support from the European Research Council, and inaugurated at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, in October 2018. Since September 2023 it is hosted by both CRASSH and the Chair Group on Global International Relations at the University of Groningen.
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).
People
gloknos Core Team
- Director Inanna Hamati-Ataya
- Research Associate Felix Anderl (left August 2020)
- Research Associate Matt Holmes (left February 2022)
gloknos is home to a wide variety of associate members, institutional partners, research group leaders, and other affiliates – you can see their profiles via our website. We are also grateful for the careful guidance and support of our Advisory Board members.
Visitors
- Matheus Duarte (August – December 2022)
- Max Hancock (June – August 2022)
- Maria Birnbaum (Visiting 2021-2022, at gloknos, CRASSH and POLIS at the University of Cambridge)
- Maarten Meijer (October – December 2021)
- Helle Porsdam (September – November 2021)
- Carolina Gerwin (2018)
Events
To find more about current gloknos events please visit the Centre’s website.
- Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts | 23-24 May 2024
Archive
Conference 2023 |
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Recasting the political: perspectives from deep history 3 Jul 2023 - 4 Jul 2023 9:00 - 18:00, Bradfield Room, Darwin College, Silver Street Cambridge CB3 9EU |
Workshops and symposia 2018 - 2023 |
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‘Norming Knowledges’ Ideas Lab 29 Jan 2019 8:30am - 5:30pm, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, Cambridge, CB3 9EU |
‘Leonardo da Vinci: Imagining Futures’ Symposium 25 Oct 2019 9:00am - 5:00pm, Rooms SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
‘The Right to Science’ Symposium 1 Apr 2020 - 3 Apr 2020 All day, Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
‘Agrarian Relations: Towards an Epistemology of Land’ Symposium 18 May 2020 - 19 May 2020 All day, |
‘The Right to Science’ Symposium 7 Oct 2020 - 8 Oct 2020 All day, Online |
(In)visible Labour: Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century Science 22 Feb 2021 4:00pm - 5:30pm, Online, via Zoom |
‘Toward a Non-Hegemonic Sociology’ Symposium 28 Jun 2021 - 29 Jun 2021 All day, Online, via Zoom |
‘Epistemologies of Soil’ Symposium 26 Nov 2021 2:00pm - 7:00pm, Online, via Zoom |
Cum Panis seminars 2018 - 2023 |
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States of Emergence, States of Knowledge: On International Relations Theorising in Rising Powers 6 Nov 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Intangible Material Culture: Technical Knowledge Transfer in Architecture 28 Jan 2019 3:00pm - 5:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Ranking the World: Globalising Status Competition in International Society 14 Feb 2019 4:00pm - 6:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
The Power of Agnosis and the Politics of the Unknown 14 May 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Becoming Worldly: Relationality as Methodology – gloknos 30 May 2019 4:00pm - 6:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Agriculture and Anti-Imperialism: The Transnational Career of Pandurang Khankhoje 4 Jun 2019 4:30pm - 6:30pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Consent, Prosent and Biomedical Data in the Era of Blockchain 10 Jun 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
The Burning Issue: Hazy Relations and the Construction of Knowledge in Land Management Fires 20 Jun 2019 3:00pm - 5:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Drake, Maroons and the Predation of Spanish Imperial Connectivity in the Sixteenth Century 29 Oct 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Consent, Prosent and Biomedical Data in the Era of Blockchain – gloknos seminar 30 Oct 2019 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Room S3, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Trade, Empire and Late-Victorian Economists 20 Nov 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, Silver Street, CB3 9EU |
The Seventeenth-Century Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam: A Politics of Knowledge Formation 12 Dec 2019 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Neoliberalism’s Literary Rhythms: Engaging with Canonical Texts to Vanquish the Market Myth 24 Jan 2020 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Revisiting the North/South Binary: Towards a Thirding Lens 28 Jan 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Collection Ecologies: Insects, Information, and Improvement in Joseph Banks’s Knowledge Network 23 Jun 2020 4:00pm - 6:00pm, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
The costs of recognition: global epistemological politics of religion | gloknos 14 Dec 2021 10:00am - 12:00pm, Online |
War/organised violence and political evolution: the ancient Mediterranean to the modern world 10 Jul 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Online | Room S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge |
Cambridge Festival 2018 - 2023 |
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GM crops in human history 15 Mar 2019 5:30pm - 6:30pm, Room SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
Objects: carriers of knowledge 19 Mar 2019 5:30pm - 6:45pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX |
Meat and potatoes: changing diets for changing times? 15 Oct 2019 5:30pm - 6:45pm, Sainsbury Laboratory , Auditorium, 47 Bateman Street , CB2 1LR |
Can you live without chocolate? 19 Mar 2020 6:30pm - 7:30pm, Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB |
Alternative proteins, alternative values: changing foods for a changing world 8 Apr 2022 15:30 - 17:00, Online & In Person at Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA |
A world of tastes: nature, culture and the making of the palate 8 Apr 2022 17:30 - 19:00, Online & In Person at Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA |
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023 |
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Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session one 7 Feb 2023 13:00 - 14:30, Online Elina Hartikainen (University of Helsinki) |
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session two 9 Mar 2023 14:00 - 15:30, Online Elayne Oliphant |
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session three 18 Apr 2023 14:00 - 15:30, Online Iza Hussin (Cambridge) |
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session four 16 May 2023 17:00 - 18:30, Online Joseph Blankholm (UC Santa Barbara) |