Entre Nous: Can Libraries Control the World? With Seth Kimmel and Lauren Robertson

A conversation with professor Seth Kimmel about his book "The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain".
Filmed on 29/10/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
In ·"The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain", Seth Kimmel investigates how the model of the library became the basis for Spain’s organization of its growing empire. As Spain sought to expand its dominance in the Americas, the world became a reflection of Spanish and Moroccan library science. Seth Kimmel is a professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University who studies the medieval and early modern period of the Iberian peninsula.
This event was moderated by Lauren Robertson, scholar and current fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.
The Entre Nous series is co-organized by Columbia Global Paris Center, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the American Library in Paris.
About the speakers:
Seth Kimmel is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, where he teaches the literature and culture of early modern Spain. He is the author of two books, both published by the University of Chicago Press: "The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" and "Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain."
Lauren Robertson is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she works on early modern literature and culture. She is the author of "Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response", and her recent essays appear in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, and Theatre Journal. She is currently a fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, where she is at work on her next book project, an account of the shared aesthetics of race-making and classical revival in the English Renaissance.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.

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Not enough people these days are actually interested in the truth, or knowledge, as much as they are their own opinions. And we all recently witnessed the "control" or _power_ that opinions unleashed on the Unites States/the world. Too bad this video hasn't gotten many more views: THIS is an indicator of the shape our world is in today.