Call for Papers- Scientiae 2013: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
Dear all,
Paper and panel proposals are invited for Scientiae 2013:
the second annual conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the
early-modern period (ca. 1450-1750). The
conference will take place on the 18-20th of April 2013 at Warwick University
in the UK, building on the success of Scientiae 2012 (Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver) which brought together over 100 scholars from around the globe.
The premise of this conference is that knowledge during
the period of the Scientific Revolution was inherently interdisciplinary,
involving complex mixtures of fields and objects that had not yet been
separated into their modern “scientific” hierarchies. As such our approach
needs to be equally wide-ranging, involving Biblical exegesis, art theory,
logic, and literary humanism; as well as natural philosophy, alchemy, occult
practices, and trade knowledge. Scientiae is for scholars working in any area
of early-modern intellectual culture, with the emergence of modern natural
science serving as a general point of reference. The conference offers a forum
both for the sharing of research and the sparking of new investigations, and is
open to scholars of all levels.
Topics and questions may include, but are by no means
limited to:
-- Theological origins and implications of the new
science
-- Nature and scripture: which interprets which?
-- What do images contribute to our understanding of
early modern knowledge?
-- Genealogies of “reason”, “utility”, and/or “knowledge”
-- Humanism and the scientific revolution
-- Paracelsianism, Neoplatonism, alchemy: where are we
now?
-- What were the relations between the new science and
magic and demonology?
-- Health and medicine: separable economies?
-- Morality and the natural world: an on-going
relationship?
-- Period conceptions and practices of intellectual
property
-- Poetics and science: habits of thought?
-- Renaissance philosophy and the development of a “new”
cosmology and anthropology.
-- Information and knowledge: a clear divide?
-- Science and Medicine:
Global Knowledges?
-- Early-modern literature and the new knowledge:
friends, or foes?
-- Advances or reversals of period logic/dialectic
The keynote speakers will be Peter Dear (Professor of the
History of Science at Cornell University) and Stephen Clucas (Reader in
Early-Modern Intellectual History at Birkbeck, University of London).
Other prominent speakers expected include: Constance
Blackwell, Isabelle Charmantier, Judy Hayden, Kevin Killeen, Sachiko Kusukawa,
Claire Preston, Jennifer Rampling and Anna Marie Roos.
Abstracts proposing individual papers of 25 minutes
should be between 250 and 350 words in length. For panel sessions of one hour
and 45 minutes, a list of speakers (with affiliations) and 500-word abstract is
required. Roundtable discussions or other formats are acceptable.
The deadline for abstracts is the 20th October 2012.
All submissions should be made at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/scientiae/submit,
if you have any questions please contact the conference convenor David Beck- D.C.Beck@warwick.ac.uk
David Beck
Lecturer, History Department, University of Warwick
Network Administrator, Early Modern Forum (twitter @EModForum, facebook
EMForum)
go.warwick.ac.uk/davidbeck