8:30 – 9:00

Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15

Opening Remarks: Patricia Fumerton (English, Early Modern Center Director, University of California, Santa Barbara)

9:15 – 10:15

Kevis Goodman (English, University of California, Berkeley)
“Medics and Aesthetics: On the Disease Formerly Known as Nostalgia”

Introductory Remarks: Alan Liu (English, University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:15 – 11:30

Panel 1: Poetics of Science and Technology

Moderator: Ken Hiltner (English, University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Pavneet Aulakh (English, University of California, Santa Barbara)
  “‘Mean and small things discover great’: Bacon, Donne, and a New Poetics”
• Michael Ursell (Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz)
  “Lyric Instruments: A Poetics of Science and Technology in John Donne’s Verse”
• Christopher F. Loar (English, University of California, Davis)
  “Blazing Guns, Blazing World: Margaret Cavendish, Sovereignty, and Technological Performance”

11:30 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:30

Panel 2: Technologies of Art/Nature

Moderator: Stefania Tutino (History, University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Lawrence Lipking (English, Northwestern University)
  “Johannes Kepler and Twenty-First-Century Science”
• Jessica Luther (History, University of Texas at Austin)
  “The Technological and Hermaphroditic Body of Early Modern Alchemists”
• Mark A. Waddell (History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Michigan State University)
  “Imagined Technologies and the Jesuit Revelation of Nature”
• Chad Wellmon (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia)
  “Bodies of Knowledge, or Encyclopedic Technology”

2:30 – 2:45

Break

2:45 – 3:45

Ann Jensen Adams (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara)
“The Technology of Time and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting”

Introductory Remarks: Ann Bermingham (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara)

3:45 – 5:00

Panel 3: Cultural Practice of Technology

Moderator: Carole Paul (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Ian MacInnes (English, Albion College)
  “Risk, Hazard, and the Measure of Time in Early Modern Mathematics”
• Taika Dahlbom (Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland; Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington DC)
  “Fish before the Bicycle: Ichthyological Specimens in the Early Modern Period”
• Matthew H. Fisk (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara)
  “Cultivating an American Antiquity: The Post-Classicist Aesthetic of Charles Willson Peale's Mastodon Fossils, 1783-1827”

5:00 – 5:15

Closing Remarks: Anita Guerrini (History and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)

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