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Practices of knowledge production in 18th -century Europe

Date: Wednesday 14 October
Time: 17:00
Venue: Magdalen College, Sophia Sheppard Room 
 

A discussion of the book Crafts and Knowledge in the 18th Century


Panel: 

Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Humboldt University, Berlin), Barry Murnane (Oxford) and Stefanie Stockhorst (Postdam) 

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