CfP: "Science, Imagination and Wonder: Robert Grosseteste and His Legacy", Oxford, 3-6 April 2018
Papers are invited
(for oral or poster presentation) for a conference “Science, Imagination
and Wonder: Robert Grosseteste and His Legacy” organised by the Ordered
Universe Research Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council, UK, and the International Grosseteste Society. An
interdisciplinary project is dedicated to new editions and translation
of the scientific work of Robert Grosseteste. The conference will be the
Fourth International Grosseteste Conference and will take place at
Pembroke College, Oxford, UK, 3–6 April 2018.
The
conference will celebrate the life and works of Grosseteste, especially
in their response to natural phenomena. A principal aim of the
conference is a confluence of disciplinary perspectives on this
remarkable thinker. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines and
from all career stages. Some suggested areas for subjects are listed
below, but please be in touch with the organising committee to run ideas
past us:
- the legacy of Grosseteste’s thought in the later Middle Ages and beyond
- Grosseteste’s predecessors and contemporaries
- textual and editorial issues connected to medieval science
- inter-textual issues across Grosseteste’s writings: pastoral, theological, scientific and literary
- rendering medieval thought in images, diagrams and visualisation
- the extended legacy of the themes Grosseteste raises:
+ the order inherent in creation
+ questions of morality and science
+ definitions of experience, experiment
+ attitudes towards authorities
+ education and pedagogic practice
- relevant thematic issues in history of science and literature
- modern scientific inspirations from medieval thinkers
- the role of wonder and imagination in science, in the medieval and modern periods
Oral
presentations should be of 20 minute length, and the organising
committee will also consider applications for sessions of 3–4 papers
with potential speakers identified. Posters should be in A0 portrait
format (33.1 wide x 46.8 length in inches), to be displayed throughout
the conference and at dedicated Poster Sessions where presenters will be
available to discuss their work). In all cases please submit a 300 word
abstract with a brief academic biography to: ordered.universe@durham.ac.uk
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