CfP: Scientiae 2018
Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early
Modern World
16-19 May 2018. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, USA
The Programme Committee for the 7th Annual Scientiae Conference invites
submissions for individual papers or special panels on the disciplines of
knowing in the early modern world (roughly 1400-1800), to be held at the
University of Minnesota, 16-19 May 2018.
The major premise of the
Scientiae Conference series is that knowledge during the early modern period
was pre-disciplinary, involving complex mixtures of theories, practices and
objects, which had yet to be separated into their modern ‘scientific’
configurations. Although centred on attempts to understand and control the
natural world, Scientiae addresses natural philosophy, natural history, and the
scientiae mixtae within a wide range
of related fields, including but not restricted to Biblical exegesis, medicine,
artisan practice and theory, logic, humanism, alchemy, magic, witchcraft,
demonology, divinatory practices, astronomy, astrology, music, antiquarianism,
experimentation and commerce. The conference and the sessions are
interdisciplinary and intended to foster debate, one of Scientiae’s defining
values.
While the Programme
Committee welcomes proposals for 20-25 minute papers from any disciplinary
perspective, we would like to encourage submissions that seek to examine modes
of early modern knowledge formation and application that cross traditional
national, geographic, linguistic or intellectual borders.
For 2018, we would also
like to invite proposals for a series of special 2-hour interdisciplinary
panels. These should be organised by theme and include three speakers and a
commentator who treat the issue from different disciplinary perspectives.
The Program Committee
welcomes sessions that present the scholarship of members at various stages of
their careers. However, graduate student speakers must be advanced students who
have completed coursework, examinations, and much of their dissertation
research, and expect to defend their dissertations in the next two years.
Individual papers should
include a 250-word abstract and a 1-page CV. Panel proposals should consists of
a single 250-word description of the theme under discussion, and three 100-word
outlines of how each paper will contribute to this theme, and from what
discipline/angle.
Email proposals to: scientiaeminnesota
[at] gmail.com
Deadline: 25 November
2017.
We will notify all
contributors by 5 January.
For more information
about Scientiae, see: www.scientiae.co.uk