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How to Make A Successful Interdisciplinary Research Project

Reading Time: 5 minutes In June 2022, Renaissance Goo and the Kings College London Centre for Early Modern Studies got together to host a workshop called  Ways of Knowing the Early Modern: Experimental Methods and Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Sarah Cockram, Hannah Murphy and Jill Burke  brought together representatives from some exciting cross-disciplinary projects that focused on the early modern period. […]

14 June 2022 0

Saffron-hued Skin: Seeking ideals of beauty in Early Modern North India

Reading Time: 8 minutes In this blog post, the IASH postdoctoral fellow for the Renaissance Goo project, Dr Sonia Wigh, tackles ideas about skin colour in Indian early modern texts. Having white skin was often fetishized in European texts about ideal beauty, and this has been linked to early colonial ideas and the formation of racial identity. How did […]

10 May 2022 0

Discussion Group 14 Jan: Sonia Wigh on Hair and Gender in North India

Reading Time: < 1 minute Please join us for the first of our monthly Renaissance Goo online work-in-progress meeting! (See here for more information about the group.) Please see below for Zoom joining info, and email renaissancegooproject@gmail.com to be added to our mailing list. First up at 1pm on Friday 14th Jan 2021 is the IASH postdoctoral fellow affiliated with […]

11 January 2022 0

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