Knowledge in Context
Colloque en l'honneur de Laurence Brockliss et Colin Jones
Published on Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Abstract
In 1997, Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Colin Jones (QMUL) published The Medical World of Early Modern France, a landmark in the history of medicine because of its integration of social and institutional history with intellectual history. It established a vibrant new approach to the history of medicine and knowledge of the early modern period while also encouraging Anglo-French intellectual exchange. As 2017 is the twentieth anniversary of this work’s publication and the year of Laurence Brockliss’s retirement, colleagues and former pupils have organized a colloquium in their honour. Scholars from a range of historical disciplines (classical scholarship/antiquarianism, philosophy, and the natural sciences) will discuss the ways in which knowledge is contextualized in early modern Europe and Britain.
Announcement
Presentation
September 22-23 2017
University of Oxford
In 1997, Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Colin Jones (QMUL) published The Medical World of Early Modern France, a landmark in the history of medicine because of its integration of social and institutional history with intellectual history. It established a vibrant new approach to the history of medicine and knowledge of the early modern period while also encouraging Anglo-French intellectual exchange. As 2017 is the twentieth anniversary of this work’s publication and the year of Laurence Brockliss’s retirement, colleagues and former pupils have organized a colloquium in their honour. Scholars from a range of historical disciplines (classical scholarship/antiquarianism, philosophy, and the natural sciences) will discuss the ways in which knowledge is contextualized in early modern Europe and Britain. Participants are also from a variety of national perspectives and locations, demonstrating the range of Brockliss and Jones’s impact in integrating intellectual history with other sub disciplines of history.
Organizers: Erica Charters, Floris Verhaart, François Zanetti
Registration: £40 (£20 for students/ECR/unwaged), to open 1 August.
For more details: http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/event/knowledge-context-colloquium-brockliss-jones
Sponsors : Magdalen College, Oxford; Society for the Social History of Medicine; Florida State University; Queen's University, Belfast; History Faculty, Oxford.
Program
Friday 22 September
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford13.15: Coffee and registration
13.45-14.00: Welcome: François Zanetti, Floris Verhaart, Erica Charters
14.00-15.30: Session I: Medicine I
Samir Boumediene (CNRS): Body and Measurement. Commerce, medicine and politics in early modern Europe/Le corps et la mesure. Commerce, médecine et politique dans l'Europe de l'époque moderne
Erica Charters (University of Oxford): Military Medicine and Forms of 18thC Knowledge
Justin Rivest (University of Cambridge): Courtly Medical Entrepreneurs and the Ancien Régime State
15.30-16.00: coffee break
16.00-17.30: Session II: (Classical) Education
Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield): Exploring the Classical Origins of the Natural Sciences in Britain, 1800-1850
Chris Stray (Swansea University): The content and organisation of teaching in Trinity College, Cambridge, c.1750-1920
Will Brockliss (University of Madison-Wisconsin): Classical education in C18/ C19 America
17.45-18.30: Keynote Lecture
Simon Burrows (Western Sydney University): The Enlightenment (Con)Text: Publishing, Popular Reading and Knowledge Cultures before the French Revolution
18.30-19.30: Drinks reception and book presentation
Gregory Brown (University of Nevada): The Autobiography of a Provincial Savant in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution: Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824)
19.30: Dinner: Hall, Magdalen College
Saturday 23 September
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford9-10.30: Session III: Medicine II
Nahema Hanafi (Université d’Angers): Genre et relation thérapeutique
Lisa Smith (University of Essex): tbc
Cathy McClive (Florida State University): Epistolary Midwifery: Marie Baudoin's letter to physician Dr Noel Vallant on the 'art of childbirth', 1671
10.30-11: coffee break
11-12.30: Session IV: History of Ideas
Mara van der Lugt (Lichtenberg Kolleg, Göttingen): The Politics of Provocation: Pierre Bayle on Obscenity in the Republic of Letters
John Robertson (Clare College Cambridge): Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger, the Flood, and the origins of society
Mark J Hill (LSE) : Quantitative Text Analysis and Intellectual History
12.30-13.30 : lunch
13.30-14.30: Session V : Medicine III
Rafael Mandressi (CNRS, Centre Alexandre-Koyré): Médecine et politique à Paris, 1600-1650
Christelle Rabier (EHESS): Novels of Two Cities: Anatomizing Surgical Readership in Paris en Edinburgh
Philip Rieder (IEH2 / University of Geneva): tbc
14.30-15.00: coffee break
15.00-16.30 : Session VI : Science and Scholarship
Theo Hoppen (Hull): Natural Philosophy, Book Collecting, and the Book Trade in Early-Modern Ireland
Jean-Luc Chappey (Université Paris 1. Panthéon Sorbonne): Questions sur les sociabilités scientifiques en Révolution
Stéphane Van Damme (EUI): A Global French Antiquarianism? Collecting Antiquities at the borders of the French Empire during the Eighteenth-Century
Subjects
Places
- Oxford, Britain
Date(s)
- Friday, September 22, 2017
- Saturday, September 23, 2017
Attached files
Contact(s)
- François Zanetti
courriel : francois [dot] zanetti [at] u-paris [dot] fr
Information source
- François Zanetti
courriel : francois [dot] zanetti [at] u-paris [dot] fr
License
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To cite this announcement
« Knowledge in Context », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, https://doi.org/10.58079/y5j
