The Renaissance Arts of Science & Nature
The 2010 Conference of the
University of Michigan
Early Modern Colloquium
February
19-20, 2010
a
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 19
3222 Angell Hall
4:30 – Keynote
Address
Laurie Shannon (Northwestern
University, English):
“The Natural-Historical Politics of Early Modern Genesis”
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 20
Rackham
East Conference Room
9:30 – Coffee & Bagels
10:00 –
11:30 – Session #1: The
Preternatural Body
Chair: Kathryn Will (University of Michigan, English)
Roya Biggie (Georgetown University, English):
“The Matter of the Heart: Gendering the
Heart in John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore and
William Harvey’s The Motion of the Heart”
Katy Wright-Bushman (University of
Notre Dame, English):
“’Children thou shalt bring / In
sorrow forth’: The Coherence and Medical Rootedness of Childbirth Imagery in
John Milton’s Prose and Poetry”
Caroline Lamb (University of Western
Ontario, English):
“Exploring the Interior: Early
Modern Anatomical Science and Theatrical Violence”
11:30 –
1:00 –
Lunch on your own
1:00 – 2:30 – Session #2:
Measurement and Taxonomy
Chair: Valerie Traub (University of Michigan, English
& Women’s Studies)
Molly Sturdevant
(DePaul University, Philosophy):
“Designing
Numbers: Problems and Possibilities for Understanding Early Modern Thought as
Blueprint”
Rebecca Wiseman (University of
Michigan, English):
“Constructing a Poetics of the Natural: Proportion, Decorum, and Bodily Appeal in
George Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesy”
James Beaver (Brown University, English):
“Donne, by Number:
Symbols, Quantification and Love in ‘Songs and Sonnets’”
2:30 – 2:45 –
Break
2:45 – 4:15 – Session #3: Objects & the Circuit of the
Self
Chair: Sean Silver (University of Michigan, English)
Andrew Bozio (University of Michigan,
English):
“Shakespeare
and the Embodiment of the Extended Mind”
Elise Lipkowitz
(Post-doctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, History):
“Rembrandts & Reptiles: Artistic
& Scientific Objects as War Booty During the Era of the French Revolution”
Alicia Puglionesi
(Johns Hopkins University, Institute of the History of Medicine):
“The Vital Globe: Conceit as
Experiment in John Donne”
4:15 – 4:30 – Break
4:30 – Keynote Address
Carla Mazzio
(SUNY-Buffalo, English): “Shakespeare’s Math”
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The EMC is grateful to
the department of English, The Institute
for the Humanities, Romance
Languages & Literatures,
Rackham, the Program
in Medieval & Early Modern Studies,
and Science,
Technology & Society
for their support.