CFP: Scientiae. Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World (Toronto) | #Scientiae2015

Victoria College, University of Toronto, 27-29 May 2015 Keynotes: Anthony Grafton (Princeton) & Peter Dear (Cornell) Paper, panel, and round-table proposals are invited for Scientiae 2015: the fourth annual international conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early-modern period (1450-1750). The major premise of this conference is that knowledge during the period of the Scientific Revolution was inherently interdisciplinary, involving complex mixtures of practices and objects which had yet to be separated into their modern “scientific” hierarchies. Our approach, therefore, needs to be equally wide-ranging, involving Biblical […]