Inaugural conference of the international AHRC/DFG research consortium,
Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
(University of York; Anglia Ruskin University; University of Marburg; University of Bayreuth)
To register for live stream, contact Prof Florian Klaeger: klaeger@uni-bayreuth.de
Plenary speakers:
Vladimir Brljak (Durham)
Rüdiger Zymner (Wuppertal)
Thursday, 28 November [Times, GMT + 1]
- 16:00
Rüdiger Zymner (Wuppertal):
Keynote address, ”Poesia et scientiae. Didactic Poetry in the Early Modern Period - 17:30—19:00
Ramune Markevičiūtė (FU Berlin):
”From Epic Tumult to a Quiet Language of Things.The Scientific Revolution and the Poetics of Latin Didactic Poetry”
Felix Sprang (Siegen):
”‘Send me thy grace to make explanacion / Of Chaos’: The Poetics of Plain Style”
Enrico Piergiacomi (Haifa):
”The Master of Transparency. Fracastoro’s Naugerius and the Foundation of Medical Poetry”
Friday, 29 November [Times, GMT + 1]
- 9:00
Vladimir Brljak (Durham):
Keynote address, ”New Science and New Criticism: Poetics among the Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century England” - 10:30—12:00
Irina Tautschnig (York):
”‘La philosophie d’aujourd’hui s’humanise’: The Poetics and Reception of Carlo Noceti’s Iris and Aurora borealis”
Claudia Schindler (Hamburg):
”Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry between Poetry and Science: Giuseppe Mazzolari’s Electricorum libri (1767)”
Reto Rössler (Flensburg):
”Didactic Poetry between Anthropology, Empirical Psychology and Aesthetics: Christoph Joseph Sucro and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Responding to Pope” - 13:00—14:30
Stefano Gulizia (Milan):
”Scientific Poetry, Prophecy, and Naturwissenschaft from Leiden to Hamburg”
Beth Dubow (Oxford):
”Scientific Poetry and the Early Modern Acrostic”
Kathryn Murphy (Oxford):
”Enjambment at the End of the World” - 15:00—16:30
Ana Fernandez-Grandizo (Cambridge):
”The Poetics of Anatomical Verse in Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island”
Roslyn Irving (Mainz):
”Prospect: Visualisation, Triangulation, and the Matter of Perspective”
Lukas Etter (Siegen):
”Hounds Chasing Rhymes: On a 1730 Introduction to Writing Enigmas and Mathematical Problems in Verse” - 17:00—18:00
Jean Eynard (Cambridge):
”‘Communities of Senses’: Natural Philosophy and the Limits of Synaesthesia in Cavendish and Butler”
Rana Banna (UC London):
”‘Harmonious numbers’: A Seventeenth-Century Scientific Poetics”
Saturday, 30 November [Times, GMT + 1]
- 9:00—10:30
Esther Bancroft (Glasgow):
”The Early Modern Poetic Vacuum”
Kevin Killeen (York):
”The Outrageous Inner Lives of Plants: Tact and Abortion in Abraham Cowley’s Herb Garden”
Christian Meierhofer (Bonn):
”The Poetic Potentials of Alchemy. German-speaking Baroque Mysticism and Its ‘Scientific’ Poetry” - 11:00—12:30
Imogen Choi (Oxford):
”‘No secret of nature would surprise me now’: The Poetics of Marine and Space Exploration in Miguel de Silveira’s El Macabeo”
Charlotte Newcombe (York):
”Personification or Panpsychism? The Empedoclean Roots of Anne Bradstreet’s ‘The Foure Elements’ (1650)”
Shankar Raman (MIT):
”‘A just and regular catastrophe’: Movement in Samson Agonistes”