'Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing' Workshop: 'Gestures of Nature'
To be invited to attend please email jennifer.oliver@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk before 12 noon on 9 July
How is knowledge or experience of nature mediated by gesture, bodily or otherwise? In this workshop, three short, informal papers, and an overarching interdisciplinary conversation between speakers and participants, will explore the roles of gesture (understood as encompassing a range of writerly, bodily, and otherwise social forms of communication) in shaping and communicating various forms of knowledge in the early modern period and beyond.
Speakers:
Viktoria von Hoffmann, (F.R.S.-FNRS) / University of Liège) ‘The Expert Touch: Feeling Substances in Holy Anatomies’
Yelda Nasifoglu (Oxford) ‘Inscribing motion on paper: Robert Hooke’s drawing of the conical pendulum’
Michael Drolet (Oxford) ‘Touching is Compulsory: Labour and Collective Experience in Saint-Simonism’
Convenors : Jenny Oliver (Oxford), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS/MFO).
A meeting of the interdisciplinary early modern working group Writing Technology/The Technology of Writing writingearly.hypotheses.org/about
Date:
10 July 2020, 14:00 (Friday, 11th week, Trinity 2020)
Venue:
Online with Microsoft Teams
Speakers:
Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS / University of Liège),
Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford),
Michael Drolet (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Maison Française d'Oxford
Organisers:
Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS/MFO),
Jenny Oliver (Oxford)
Part of:
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
jennifer.oliver@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
