This roundtable brings together scholars working at the intersection of historical inquiry and embodied cognition. The discussion invites participants to reflect on how attention to the body and sensory perception reshapes our understanding of knowledge-making in the context of the Western past, with particular emphasis on the early modern period. This moment in history not only witnessed profound technological and epistemic shifts—uncannily resonant with those of our own time—but also produced constitutive myths that continue to shape how we conceive knowledge-making today.

Participants will engage in an open conversation focused on the stakes of such an exploration, as well as its methodological challenges and possibilities. What assumptions, sources, and interpretive frameworks support a historical approach to embodied cognition? What kinds of disciplinary crossings are necessary or productive?

The roundtable aims to foster the exchange of ideas and tools across fields, serving as an exploratory step for all those working on historical embodiments of knowledge.

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