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9:00 Registration & Coffee 9:30 Session 4 The Wilderness of Forms: Bacon and Browne Moderator: Jonathan Post (University of California, Los Angeles) Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College, Oxford) “The Wilderness of Forms and the Difference of Things in Browne and His Contemporaries” Caryn O’Connell (University of Chicago) “‘Continuall Conversation’: Late Bacon and Browne” 11:30 Lunch 12:30 Session 5 Fact and Fiction Moderator: Mordechai Feingold (Caltech) Seth Lobis (Claremont McKenna College) “Fact and Fiction in Ralph Cudworth’s True Intellectual System of the Universe” Vera Keller (University of Oregon Honors College) “Errors and Non-Entities: Browne and Hartlib between Discourse and Catalog” FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2016 8:30 Registration & Coffee 9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington) Remarks: Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 10:00 Session 1 Browne and the Royal Society Moderator: Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University) Renee Raphael (University of California, Irvine) “Reading Mines and Mining Texts: Reading and Observational Practice in the Writings of Edward and Thomas Browne and the Early Royal Society” Rhodri Lewis (St. Hugh’s College, Oxford) “Their Manner of Discourse? Scribal Culture, Civility, and the Early Royal Society” 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Session 2 Language and “Characters” Moderator: Kristine Haugen (Caltech) J.D. Fleming (Simon Fraser University) “Unreal Characters: Technology and Orality in the Seventeenth Century” Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London) “The Punctual Relations of Musaeum Clausum” 3:00 Break 3:15 Session 3 Negative Knowledge Moderator: Debora Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles) Kevin Killeen (University of York) “The Fleeting Shape of the Absent God: The Garden of Cyrus and the Apophatic” Jessica Wolfe “Browne and the Silent Text” Name(s): Address: Email/Phone: Affiliation: Conference registration and meals by reservation only. No confirmation will be sent. Conference registration fee ......................................... $ 25.00 (Students free) Buffet lunch (January 22) ............................................. $ 20.00 Buffet lunch (January 23) ............................................. $ 20.00 Vegetarian (check one) ❒ Yes ❒ No TOTAL .................................. $ Please mail form and check payable to “The Huntington” to: Juan Gomez, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108. PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: [email protected] Please note: Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library. F eaturing twelve leading experts in the literary, philosophical, and scientific culture of seventeenth-century England, this conference focuses on the works and worlds of Sir Thomas Browne, the physician, essayist, and naturalist who was one of the era’s most eloquent and idiosyncratic interpreters of the book of nature. LOCATION Rothenberg Hall, Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center 2:30 Break 2:45 Session 6 The Ethics of Naturalism and the Science of Error Moderator: Gideon Manning (Caltech) Joanna Picciotto (University of California, Berkeley) “Why Look at Animals?” Anthony Ossa-Richardson (University of Southampton) “The Pericardium of Truth: Thomas Browne and the Science of Error” 4:45 Closing Remarks: Jessica Wolfe and Reid Barbour (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016 A CONFERENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108 Funding provided by The Dibner History of Science Program at The Huntington The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1678), p. 228. Huntington Library copy. Truth and Error IN T homas B rowne Early Modern Science: AND HIS WORLD Truth and Error IN Thomas B rowne Early Modern Science: AND HIS WORLD
