The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project, invites scholars to attend a conference on the Center’s 2007-2008 theme, “Science & Technology, 1500-1800.” This one-day interdisciplinary conference will be a forum to explore the interrelated fields of science and technology in the early modern period. We conceive of science and technology as a broad range of social and cultural practices, cultural and historical formations, and epistemological perspectives. How and why were systems of knowledge created and proliferated? What particular scientific developments participated in the exploration of the body, the mind, time, and space? How were individuals, communities, and nations impacted by new systems of knowledge, particular objects or hardware, or advanced procedures to accomplish tasks?

The program will consist of ten panelists representing a variety of disciplines, as well as the following keynote talks:

• Ann Jensen Adams (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), "The Technology of Time and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting"
• Kevis Goodman (English, University of California, Berkeley), "Medics and Aesthetics: On the Disease Formerly Known as Nostalgia"
• William R. Newman (History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University), "Art, Nature, Alchemy, and Newton: The Art-Nature Dichotomy in the Chymistry of Isaac Newton"
  William Newman will unfortunately not be able to attend the conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

ONLINE REGISTRATION
(The conference is free to all participants.)

Conference Co-Sponsors:

Early Modern Center
College of Letters & Sciences (Division of Humanities and Fine Arts)
UCSB Graduate Division
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Department of Theater & Dance
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Comparative Literature Program
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department of Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies
Department of History
Women’s Studies Program

And in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project

For information on travel to and accommodations near UC Santa Barbara, please visit the English Department’s Visitor Information page.