We are hosting an afternoon workshop here at Wellcome Collection on ‘Finding Lost Science in Early Modern Poetry’. The workshop is free to attend and open to all. We would be delighted to see you there! To register, please contact Prof. Gesine Manuwald: g.manuwald@ucl.ac.uk
The workshop will be followed by a public event with viewings of early printed books, forming part of the Being Human festival: https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/finding-lost-science-in-early-modern-poetry/
Didactic poetry of the early modern period can reveal fascinating insights about what people of the time thought about science and how they expressed these ideas in poetic form. Texts of this literary genre, however, tend to be neglected because they are regarded neither as ‘proper scientific texts’ nor as ‘proper poetry’. This workshop, organised by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Wellcome Collection and the Department of Greek & Latin at University College London, aims to bring this type of literature into focus again. Specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds will present case studies, looking at a variety of English and Latin texts, and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion. The day will conclude with a public event as part of the Being Human festival.
Programme
12.45–1.00 pm: Registration
1.00–1.15 pm: Welcome and introduction
1.15–2.00 pm: Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London), ‘The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some 17th-century descriptions’
2.00–2.45 pm: David McOmish (University of Glasgow), ‘Teaching the Scientific Revolution in verse: when poetry ruled the cosmos’
2.45–3.15 pm: Coffee/tea
3.15–4.00 pm: Victoria Moul (King’s College London), ‘Latin poetry and medicine’
4.00–4.15 pm: Closing discussion
4.30–6.00 pm: Public event as part of the Being Human festival
Location: Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
The workshop and public event are free to attend. To register to attend the workshop, contact Gesine Manuwald. No registration is needed to attend the public event.
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
Programme
12.45–1.00 pm: Registration
1.00–1.15 pm: Welcome and introduction
1.15–2.00 pm: Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London), ‘The gallery, the eye, and the rhetoric of observation in some 17th-century descriptions’
2.00–2.45 pm: David McOmish (University of Glasgow), ‘Teaching the Scientific Revolution in verse: when poetry ruled the cosmos’
2.45–3.15 pm: Coffee/tea
3.15–4.00 pm: Victoria Moul (King’s College London), ‘Latin poetry and medicine’
4.00–4.15 pm: Closing discussion
4.30–6.00 pm: Public event as part of the Being Human festival
Location: Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
The workshop and public event are free to attend. To register to attend the workshop, contact Gesine Manuwald. No registration is needed to attend the public event.
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK
