Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800)

Stefano Gandolfo (University of Oxford, Oriental Studies): Drip-Drop-Splash-And Dao: Water Conceptual Metaphor and Knowledge Organization in the Siku Quanshu
Gregorio Astengo (University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture): Printing/Building. Joseph Moxon and the Dissemination of Mechanick Architecture in Late-17thC London
Deborah Ramkhelawan (University of Oxford, English Language and Literature): A Daughter of the Royal Society: Materiality, Metaphysics, and Natural Philosophy in Mary Evelyn’s ‘Miscelania’

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

Nicholas Rheubottom (King’s College London, Music): Caging the Beast: Sublime Experience as Cultural Object in Late Eighteenth-Century Glees
Dayeon Oh (University of Oxford, History of Art): Picturing, Mapping and Transmitting Knowledge in Early Modern European and Edo Japanese Visual Culture
Zhuozhang Li (University of Liverpool, School of the Arts, Visual and Urban Studies): The Representation of Urban Milieu in Chinese Paintings in the Early 18th Century

1300-1330 Panel 2 – Discussion chaired by Marina Bezzi

1330 – 1415 Lunch

1415-1515 Panel 3: Boundaries of knowledge

Natalia Gándara (University College London, History): Geographies of knowledge. The Chilean Sea in the second half of the 18th century
Virginia Ghelarducci (School of Advanced Study, Institute of Latin American Studies): Ethnographic description and illustration in sixteenth century French travel literature: Jean de Léry and André Thevet on Brazilian cannibalism
John Carrigy (National University of Ireland, Galway, English): Transcending boundaries: John Dee’s imperial literature in the context of Elizabethan scholarly practice

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

Call for Papers

June 28, 2017September 1, 2017 earlymodernknowledgemaking

Call for Papers

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:

Visual knowledge and spatial representation
Natural philosophy, Botany, Mathematical sciences
Languages
Ethnography
Religion and Jurisprudence
Colonialism and imperialism
Political and economic thought

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.

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