Date/Time
Date(s) - 18 Oct 2013 until 19 Oct 2013
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Heyman Center, East Campus
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Travel, Science, and the Question of Observation: 1580-1800
Conference at the Heyman Center
Friday, October 18, 2013 – Saturday, October 19, 2013
Heyman Center Second Floor Common Room and 501 Schermerhorn Hall
In the early modern period, the emergence of travel as a means of information gathering on natural history, demography, government, and religion was accompanied by the use of questionnaires to orient observation. This conference investigates the development of techniques of information gathering of this kind and the networks on which they relied. Papers address the integral role of travel in the process of scientific exchange as well as to the ways that information itself traveled in British, French, Spanish, and Swedish contexts.
The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org) and by the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, with the assistance of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. The “Texts, Contexts, Culture” project is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4.
Conference participants include: Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway), Eileen Gillooly (Heyman Center for the Humanities), Elizabeth Yale (Western Carolina University), Asheesh Siddique (Columbia University), Alan Stewart (Columbia University), Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College) Dániel Margócsy (Hunter College, City University of New York), Nicholas Dew (McGill University), Matthew L. Jones (Columbia University), Martin J. Burke (The Graduate Center, City University of New York), Ida Federica Pugliese (National University of Ireland, Galway), Cameron Strang (University of Texas at Austin), Lynn Festa (Rutgers University), Ted McCormick (Concordia University),Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University), Maria Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University), Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (The University of Texas at Austin), Paula Findlen (Stanford University), Ann Blair (Harvard University)
For full details see:
http://heymancenter.org/events/travel-science-and-the-question-of-observation-1580-1800/