The conference is free and open to all, but registration is required.
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A London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) PhD Conference at Dr Williams Library (London, UK)
The conference is free and open to all, but registration is required.
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A London Arts and Humanities Partnership PhD Conference
Dr Williams’s Library (London, United Kingdom)
Saturday, 14th October 2017
All are welcome. Admission is free, but registration is required.
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0930-1000 Registration and coffee
1000-1015 Welcome
1015-1115 Panel 1: Meaning through organisation
1115-1145 Panel 1 – Discussion chaired by Joseph da Costa
1145-1200 Coffee break
1200-1300 Panel 2: Perceptions of change through sights and sounds
1300-1330 Panel 2 – Discussion chaired by Marina Bezzi
1330 – 1415 Lunch
1415-1515 Panel 3: Boundaries of knowledge
1515-1545 Panel 3 – Discussion chaired by Dr Toby Green (Senior Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College London)
1545-1600 Coffee break
1600-1700 Keynote address by Dr Zoltán Biedermann (Senior Lecturer in Luso Brazilian Studies at University College London): ‘Cross-disciplinarity in Science History: between the obvious and the outrageous’
1700-1730 Final discussion
1745 Dinner for speakers
Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800)
Deadline: 7th July 2017
With the support of the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP), the Dr Williams Library (London) will host a student-led interdisciplinary conference on the overlap, cross-fertilisation, and collaborative potential between the Humanities and Social Sciences across studies on the history of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800), 14th October 2017.
The conference is open to all PhD candidates from any department within Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.
Submissions with studies of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800) from a wide range of fields are welcome, such as Legal, Political, Social, Cultural, Intellectual, Environmental and Economic History; Global, Imperial and World History; History of Science, Medicine and Technology; Digital Humanities; Linguistics and Literary Studies; History of Art and History of Architecture; Anthropology and Sociology; Cultural and Historical Geography; Performance, Gender and Queer Studies. We particularly encourage topics that highlight the circulation and transmission of knowledge in the period, including but not limited to:
The aims of the conference are to deepen the understanding of how a certain type of cross-disciplinarity already characterised knowledge-making along cultural encounters in an expanding world from c.1415 onwards; to highlight how PhD students use cross-disciplinary approaches to better understand their primary sources and the contemporary intellectual framework within which their research is situated; and to promote similar events and future collaborations among the panellists and the audience.
Keynote speaker:
Dr Zoltán Biedermann (Senior Lecturer in Luso Brazilian Studies, University College London)
How to submit your proposal:
Proposals for papers should be submitted using the online form by 7th July 2017 and include a maximum 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper. (Link to the online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexdfz8T02GPww7zu06KGZMvbrzrJZiR12NF6ZTJ4wo_d8xWA/viewform)
All candidates will be notified by 31st July 2017. Attendance is free of charge.
Travel bursaries:
Small bursaries might be available to help cover travel expenses to and from London. Please send us your estimate travel expenses to earlymodernknowledgemaking@gmail.com after submitting your proposal.
Contact us:
E-mail: earlymodernknowledgemaking@gmail.com
Website: earlymodernknowledgemaking.wordpress.com
Twitter: @knowledgemaking