Serai: Early Modern Encounters
Serai was a free and open online collaboratory for scholarship on premodern encounters across ethnolinguistic and religious divides, combining regional expertise with a keen interest in the transformative potential of digital scholarship.
Serai was an explicitly trans-disciplinary space. Serai offered researchers, teachers, and students at all stages of their career a digital meeting place where they could share resources, exchange ideas, and collaborate on projects. The hope of this site was to inspire others to join together in thinking through our diverse research materials about the multiple intersections between the past and the future of cultural encounters, knowledge production, and boundary crossing, and the urgency of exploring connectivities and confluences across seemingly disparate spaces.
Initial development by Geoff Piersol and the Serai Team was funded through an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (2012-2016).
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