Program for workshop "Jesuit early modern science in a digital perspective", Wuppertal, Nov 2015
Dear all,
The program for our workshop "Jesuit early modern
science in a digital perspective. The Jesuit Science Network" in Wuppertal
is now available.
The workshop will take place at Wuppertal University at
the end of this month, Nov 26+27, in room K.11.07. You can find a description
and the program of the workshop below and download the poster from http://www.izwt.uni-wuppertal.de/fileadmin/izwt/Tagungen_Workshops/WS_15-16/WupNov2015Poster.pdf.
Best regards,
Dagmar Mrozik
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Workshop description
In recent years, an ever growing number of scholars in
the humanities have realized the benefits they can gain from using digital
methods in their work. This holds particularly true when it comes to dealing
with large amounts of similarly structured information, as is the case in the
study of early modern Jesuit science: biographical information of the involved
actors, bibliographical information of published scientific works and
unofficial manuscripts, chronologies of colleges and their scientific chairs,
and so on. In order to record, categorize, and then map out all this data in a
sensible way, it would only seem obvious to use computers, thus allowing for
truly comprehensive studies to be made.
In our workshop "Early modern Jesuit science in a
digital perspective - The Jesuit Science Network", we want to discuss such
digital approaches in practice. As a particular example, we want to present the
titular Jesuit Science Network (JSN), a biographical database on Jesuit
scholars in early modern science that is currently in its last stages of
development at Wuppertal University. After completion, it will contain around
1000 entries and will be put online for other researchers to use (expected
launch mid 2016). Aside from discussing the JSN, the workshop also wants to
give opportunities to address other digital methods and how the study of early
modern Jesuit science can benefit from them.
Workshop program
Thursday, Nov 26
2:30pm - 2:45pm Volker Remmert (Wuppertal): Introduction
2:45pm - 3:45pm Bernard Deprez (Leuven): "Exploring jesuitica.be for
science research: Strengths and weaknesses"
4:15pm - 5:15pm Alexander Czmiel, Fabian Körner (Berlin):
"The Person Data Repository"
5:15pm - 6:15pm Dagmar Mrozik (Wuppertal): "The
Jesuit Science Network"
Friday, Nov 27
9:00am - 10:00am Matteo Valleriani, Dirk Wintergrün
(Berlin): "A Subnetwork of Treatises: The Editions of Clavius’s Sphere of
Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Network of Tracts on The Sphere"
10:30am - 11:30am Luca Guzzardi (Milan): "The project
of the Ruggiero Boscovich National Edition in digital perspective"
11:30am - 12:30pm Iva Lelková (Prague):
"Visualization of Athanasius Kircher's (1602-1680) correspondence -
Problems and questions"
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Dagmar Mrozik
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und
Technikforschung (IZWT) Bergische Universität Wuppertal Gaußstr. 20
42119 Wuppertal
Raum N.10.01
Tel.: +49-(0)202-439-2955