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Ada Palmer

Outdoor art class

From outdoor art to virtual worlds, a look at UChicago’s Autumn Quarter

Oct 8, 2020
Ada Palmer

What Historic Pandemics Could Teach Us About Coronavirus, with Ada Palmer (Ep. 48)

A historian explains what we can really learn about COVID-19 from the Black Death pandemic

Papal election

Donning Renaissance costumes, students re-enact 1492 papal elections

May 21, 2019
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Historian Ada Palmer traces censorship of radical ideas across centuries

Dec 6, 2018
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Introduction, Censorship & Information Control During Information Revolutions

Dec 5, 2018

Can Science Justify Itself?

Feb 12, 2018

Harvard Magazine

A Utopia with Caveats: Why Peace on Earth Might Require Big Sacrifices

Jun 14, 2016

Scientific American

The rediscovery of this writer in the Renaissance opened the way to the modern world

Aug 24, 2015
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Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer

Title: Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College

Expertise: Italian Renaissance, History of ideas, Renaissance humanism, Intellectual history

Departmental website: https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/ada-palmer

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