CfP: 1 and 2 April 2019, Antiquarian ‘Science’ in the Scholarly Society, Society of Antiquaries, London
1 and 2 April 2019,
Antiquarian ‘Science’ in the Scholarly Society
Society of Antiquaries of London. Workshop two of the AHRC International
Networking Grant: Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the early modern academy
(https://collectivewisdom.
We
will explore how ‘antiquarian science’ informed collecting in
the early modern scholarly academy, as many members of these societies
like astronomer Martin Folkes (1690-1754) also were connoisseurs and
antiquaries. Folkes was Newton’s protégé, President of both the Royal
Society and Society of Antiquaries of London,
and he even tried to unite the two societies as they had many common
members and goals.
In this workshop we will ask:
What
was the relationship between archaeological fieldwork or antiquarianism
and learned travel or the Grand Tour? What does collecting on tour say
about the manner and scale
of personal and institutional contacts between London and the
scientific world of the Continent? What tools of natural philosophy were
utilised to understand buildings and artefacts? What were the
implications of the collecting of ethnographic objects for
political dominance and Empire?
A
working session using sources from the Society of Antiquaries Library
and Museum will also be part of the programme. The Society’s library is
Britain’s oldest major research
library for archaeology, architectural history, decorative arts
(especially medieval), material culture and the historic environment.
Speakers include: Philip Beeley (Oxford), Dominik Collet (Heidelberg), Dustin Frazier-Wood (Roehampton),
Chantal Grell (Versailles),
Christian Hoggard (Aarhus),
Stephanie
Moser (Southhampton), Cesare Pastorino (Berlin), Anna Marie Roos
(Lincoln), Edwin Rose (Cambridge), Martin Rudwick (Cambridge), Kim Sloan
(British Museum), Alexander Wragge-Morley
(UCL), Elizabeth Yale (Iowa),
We welcome papers of 25 minutes duration from established and early career scholars on the themes
above. Please send an abstract of 200 words to Anna Marie Roos (aroos@lincoln.ac.uk) by 30 November 2018.