Abstract
Introductory piece outlining the aims of IinteR-La+b (the International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Balzan Foundation, held in Rome, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 12–13 November 2012). Published in Giovanni Tarantino (ed.), “Our words, and theirs:” A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg on the historian’s craft, Cromohs 18 (2013).