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CALL FOR PAPERS: Science & Technology, 1500-1800 CFP Deadline:
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The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project, invites paper proposals for an interdisciplinary 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: Nostalgia as a Pathology and Poetics of Motion"
- 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"
PROPOSALS
We invite proposals from across the disciplines that use a variety of thematic and methodological approaches. Papers ranging from specific case studies to broad explorations within the fields of science and technology are welcome. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to, discussions of horticulture, botany, engineering, automata, stage machinery, navigation, cartography, anatomy, medicine, alchemy, the occult, taxonomy, archiving, printing, and information science. Since both the Early Modern Center and the Transcriptions Project undertake initiatives that bridge the study of digital media and the humanities, we are also interested in proposals that apply the perspectives of new media study to the cultural formations of the early modern period.
Abstracts (300 words or less) for 15-minute minute papers should be sent to EMCConference@gmail.com by November 16, 2007. We hope to notify participants by December 1, 2007.
