Making Knowledge: Science, Art, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe at McGill University Sept. 23-25
This workshop will explore and re-evaluate the relationship between early modern scientific knowledge and the 'arts', or between epiteme and techne (ca. 1500-1800).
Workshops are...
Envisioning Science: Imaging the Body. Node Workshop at UofA Sept 10-11, 2010
Visual perception might seem to be a strictly natural process, and yet it
has a history. Scholars from a range of disciplines now study visuality,
moving beyond biological understandings of...
Earth Science, Global Science. Node Workshop at York Sept. 30-Oct. 2
All sciences are faced with some version of the problem of moving from the local observation to the general explanation. Yet from their foundations, the earth sciences have been uniquely...