Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Interdisciplinary Conference
=93Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World=
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The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton=20
University invites session and paper proposals for its semiannual=20
interdisciplinary conference, October 22-23, 2004. The conference will=20
bring together scholars from a range of disciplines working on connections=
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among science, literature, and the arts from approximately 400-1750, in=20
both European as well as non-European cultures. Science should be conceived=
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of broadly, as the study of the physical world and of human psychic and=20
social life, and as including such branches of learning as medicine,=20
alchemy, astrology, cosmology, and theology. We especially welcome papers=20
attentive to epistemological issues in and across various cultures, as=20
producing or constitutive of =93science.=94 Papers may address the use of=20
scientific material in a particular work of art or literature, or broader=20
issues such as portrayals of literature and the arts in scientific=20
treatises (and vice versa); other potential fields of inquiry include, but=
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are not limited to:
=B7 Literary, artistic, and scientific constructions of gender:=20
intersections/contradictions
=B7 Science and (/vs.) magic, including portrayals of each in=20
literature and art
=B7 The convergence of scientific and artistic activity in specific=20
courts/cultural centers
=B7 Cross-cultural scientific/artistic exchange (e.g. between Europe=
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and the Islamic World)
=B7 Treatises on dreams and dream narratives
=B7 Bestiaries, lapidaries, and herbals as a hybrid of scientific and=
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literary genres
=B7 Renaissance debates over astronomy and astrology
=B7 Botany/horticulture: scientific approaches to (and in) the garden
=B7 Cartography/mappae mundi and the arts
=B7 The systematization/institutionalization of knowledge production=
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universities
=B7 The Aristotelian/scholastic method (and reaction against it)
=B7 The encyclopedic tradition
=B7 Science and technology, including construction
=B7 Literary/artistic depictions of scientific instruments,=20
experiments, =93men of science=94, etc.
=B7 Literary device/technique in scientific writings
=B7 Implicit critiques of science in medieval romance and other types=
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of fantasy literature
=B7 Premodern literature/art and 21st-century technology
Plenary speakers include:
Nancy Siraisi, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, =93Ancient Bodies=
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Renaissance Physicians=94
Ronald Martinez, Brown University, =93Dante=92s Sphere: Authorizing=
Vernacular=20
scienza in Raphael=92s Stanza della Segnatura=94
Monica Green, Arizona State University, =93Dancing Babies and Literate=20
Midwives: Fetus-in-utero Images in the Middle Ages=94
Carol Bier, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. =93Number, Shape and the Nature=
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of Space: Geometry and the Spatial Dimension in Islamic Art=94
Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2004
Please send two copies of session proposals or one-page abstracts, along=20
with a copy of your current c.v. including e-mail address and phone number,=
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and any requests for audio-visual equipment. E-mail submissions are=20
welcome. A volume of proceedings is projected.
Send inquiries and proposals to:
Dana Stewart, Conference Organizer
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton NY 13902-6000
stewart@binghamton.edu
http://cemers.binghamton.edu/
Conference Committee: Karen Barzman, Art History; Charles Burroughs, Art=20
History; Dana Stewart, Romance Languages
Anna M. DiStefano
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