Literature, Medicine and Science: an interdisciplinary conference
When:
—
Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
10:00 – 10:25 | Informal Catch-up with Coffee and Tea (catered)
10:30 – 11:45 | Paper session 1: Forms and form
Anita Hoffmann – The birth of proprietary medicine advertising and bookseller vendor networks c.1630-1670
Caroline Curtis – John Evelyn’s Pelicans: A Diary in Two Formats
Valentina Finger – Taking in Shadows with a Glass: Natural-Magic Mirrors in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist
11:45 – 12:00 | Short comfort break
12:00 – 13:15 | Paper Session 2: Women poets
Kate Allan – ‘By a finite, see an infinite power’: Alchemical Metonymy in Hester Pulter’s Poems and Emblemes
Masuda Qureshi – ‘Sun amongst the Planets round’: philosophical metaphors of the universe in Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1653)
Charlotte Newcombe – Atomic Form and Experiment in Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of De rerum natura
13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch Break (catered)
14:00 – 14:50 | Paper session 3: A world of words
Caroline Spearing – Science and Poetry in Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Sex (1668)
Virginia Ghelarducci – José de Acosta: A Natural Philosopher? The Historia, the Aristotelian Tradition and the Wonders of the New World
14: 50 | Short comfort break
15:00 – 15:50 | Paper session 4: Poetic innovation
Ivana Bicak – Brains and Air-Pumps: Latin Poetry and Science in Early Modern England
Ayelet Langer – Milton Aristotelian Motion
15:50 – 16:15 | Coffee and Tea Break (catered)
16:15 – 17:30 | Keynote lecture by Cassandra Gorman
‘Universal Verse: Anne Southwell and Early Modern Women’s Cosmological Poetics’
This is an in-person event and will not be recorded.
Contact name:
Masuda Qureshi
Contact phone:
NA
-
Cassandra Gorman
-
Keynote expert.
-
Prof Sue Wiseman
-
Dr Masuda Qureshi is running this conference. She is ISSF fellow (postdoctoral) in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing.