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EMPHASIS 2008-9 Programme

4 October 2008

 

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Sven Dupré (University of Ghent)
"Material culture and the pursuit of natural knowledge in early seventeenth-century Antwerp"

25 October 2008

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Ian Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia)
"Cosmos and Jurisdiction in Kant's Cosmopolitanism."

1 November 2008
Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Johannes Machielsen (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
"Demonology 101? Magic and the University of Leuven."

6 December 2008

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster)
"Galileo, Liar: Theory Ladenness, Lunar Theory and the Lunatic History of 'Galileo's Last Great Discovery'."

10 January 2009

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Aurélien Ruellet (Université de Tours)
"Patterns and networks in the patronage of mathematics (France-England, 1625-1661)."

7 February 2009

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Nicholas Jardine and Natalie Kaoukji (HPS, Cambridge)
"Wilkins's enigmatic astronomical engraved titlepage."

7 March 2009

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Adam Mosley (University of Swansea)
"Heaven on Earth: Cosmography and the Divine."

4 April 2009

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Marcos Martinón-Torres (University College, London)
"Hands-on research: early modern chymistry and modern archaeology."

2 May 2009

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Angus Gowland (University College, London)
"Melancholy and dreaming in Renaissance learning."

6 June 2009

Venue: Institute of English Studies, Senate House. Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Rob Ralley (HPS, Cambridge)
"Climacteric years: astrology and ageing in early modern England."

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