Extended deadline: Mathematical readers in the early modern world
Final call for papers and extended deadline (my apologies
that this CFP was previously circulated with an incorrect deadline)
Research workshop: Mathematical readers in the early
modern world
Thursday 18 and Friday 19 December 2014
All Souls College, Oxford
Call for Papers
How was mathematical writing consumed – read, used,
responded to, and otherwise engaged with – in the early modern period? What was
distinctive about mathematical reading, compared with the reading of other
kinds of technical writing, or with the reading of prose more generally? Were
mathematical books handled or annotated in distinctive ways? Was mathematical reading associated with a
distinctive set of locations? How, where and when did readers learn the
(presumptively specialized) skills of mathematical reading? These questions
will be the subject of this two-day workshop, to be held in All Souls College,
Oxford.
Confirmed speakers:
Ken Clements, Illinois State University
Nerida Ellerton, Illinois State University Robert
Goulding, University of Norte Dame Kathryn James, Yale University Yelda
Nasifoglu, McGill University Renée Raphael, University of California, Irvine
Benjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford
Proposals for papers are invited on all aspects of
reading and consuming mathematics in the early modern world. Proposals should
include an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief CV, and should be
emailed to benjamin.wardhaugh@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
by 15 September 2014. The conference can contribute to travel costs for
speakers.