Maria Avxentevskaya
Visiting Scholar (Nov 2023-Apr 2024)
Dr.
Maria Avxentevskaya (Auxent) specializes in the premodern history of science and medicine and the longue durée history of scientific communication, including humanism, semiotics, translation, rhetoric, persuasion, and networking. She received her doctoral degree from the Freie Universität Berlin (2015, with distinction) for her dissertation “How to Discover Things with Words? John Wilkins: From Inventio to Invention.” Her research has been supported by the Max Planck Society, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the Warburg Institute.
Maria is currently working on the monograph Rhetoric and Persuasion in Early Modern English Science. Her publications include the forthcoming Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective, co-edited with Glenn W. Most (Brill, 2024) and Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, co-edited with Katja Krause and Dror Weil (Routledge, 2022). Maria’s other projects include “The Word and the Brain: Early Modern Neuroscience of Rhetoric and Persuasion” and “The Physician’s Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking.” She has taught science communication, early modern science, and knowledge in translation at Bard College Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and the University of Sydney. Her science journalism pieces have been republished by the Independent and Scientific American.
Projekte
Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs
Past Events
Lecture
- Institute Event
Machine Translation Before and After the Iron Curtain
MORESeminar
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Chasing Science on the Move: Translation, Domestication, Transformation
MORELecture
- Institute Event
Of Lexical Shells and Textual Monstrosities: Tales of Translation in Late Imperial China
MORESeminar
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Tensions between Variability of Ancient Texts and Normativity of Databases: Case Studies
MORELecture
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From Clay to Modern Editions: the Metamorphoses of Numbers
MOREPremodern Conversations Series
- Institute Event
A History of Rules: Algorithms, Patterns, and Recipes
MOREPremodern Conversations Series
- Institute Event
Epistemological Reflections in the Prize Contests of the French Academies (1720–1760)
MOREPremodern Conversations Series
- Institute Event
Infrastructures of Natural History
MOREPremodern Conversations Series
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Coal in the Early Modern History of Resources
MOREKolloquium
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
MOREVeranstaltungsreihe Premodern Conversations
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The Physician’s Album Amicorum: Vitality, Vividness, and Values.
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