Monthly Archives: June 2013

CFP: Scientiae 2014

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 24, 2013

Scientiae (University of Vienna, 23-25 April 2014) Keynote Speakers: Thomas Wallnig (University of Vienna) and Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) Paper and panel proposals are invited for Scientiae 2014, the third annual conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750). The conference will take place on the 23-25 April 2014 […]

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CFP: Understanding Matter

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 24, 2013

CFP: Understanding Matter (Philosophical Perspectives) Palermo, Sicily, 10-13 April 2014. The 1st International CRF Conference (Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Filosofica, Palermo). How do we experience matter? Does it present itself to the senses? Or is it only an empty substrat- um that cannot be grasped if deprived of all sensible qualities? Is it perceived as […]

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Collaborative Research Project: SEATIDE

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 23, 2013

SEATIDE (Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion) Collaborative Research Project SEATIDE (Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion) is an EU FP7-funded project that will make use of a field research based approach to study processes of integration and exclusion in Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. By reinforcing European […]

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Publication: Doctor Who and Race

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 23, 2013

Doctor Who and Race The book Doctor Who and Race, edited by Lindy Orthia, will be published by Intellect Books in July 2013. The book discusses representations of race in the world’s longest running science fiction television show, from colour-blind casting to colonialism, eugenics to eurocentrism, nationalism to noble savages. It is available from July […]

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New Website Available: Early Modern Medical and Scientific Travel

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 22, 2013

New Website Available: Early Modern Medical and Scientific Travel In 1663, Martin Lister left his parents’ house in Lincolnshire to study medicine in Montpellier. Whilst in France, he kept a journal in an almanac entitled Every Man’s Companion: Or, An useful Pocket-Book. The diary demonstrates the intellectual development of a significant 17th-c physician and naturalist, […]

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Colloquium: Early Modern Approaches to the Imagination

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 18, 2013

Early Modern Approaches to the Imagination (17 July 2013, University of Warwick) This one day interdisciplinary colloquium seeks to bring together scholars working on literature, history, and philosophy to examine early modern ideas about imagination in various, overlapping spheres. Cultural discourses shaping ideas about the imagination were extremely diverse in the early modern period. Aristotelian, […]

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CFA: Special Issue of Preternature

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 17, 2013

Shadows of the Mind: Discourses of Superstition and Nature in the Early Modern World Special Issue of Preternature Edited by James A.T. Lancaster and Richard Raiswell The advent of novel approaches in early modernity to understanding and mastering nature—from natural magic, to natural history, to natural philosophy—motivated discourse about how best to distill true knowledge […]

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EMPHASIS Seminar: 16 June 2013

By James A T Lancaster | Published: June 7, 2013

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 16 June 2013 in Room 104 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speakers: Olivia Smith (St Johns College, Oxford): ‘Locke’s use of underspecification’; Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh) and Richard Ellis (University of Cambridge): ‘Locke’s […]

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