Conference "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580-1750)"

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Wir laden herzlich ein zur Eröffnungskonferenz des AHRC/DFG-geförderten Projekts "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580-1750)" (https://scientificpoetry.org/) am 28.-30. November 2024 an der Universität Bayreuth.

Eine Online-Zuschaltung ist nach Anmeldung per E-Mail (klaeger@uni-bayreuth.de) möglich.

Donnerstag, 28. November

• 16:00 Keynote address, Rüdiger Zymner (Wuppertal):
  "Poesia et scientiae. Didactic Poetry in the Early Modern Period"
• 17:30—19:00
  Ramunė 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"

• Freitag, 29. November

• 9:00 Keynote address, Vladimir Brljak (Durham):
  "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"

• Samstag, 30. November

• 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"

The inaugural conference of the joint AHRC/DFG consortium, "Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580-1750)" (https://scientificpoetry.org/), will take place on 28-30 November, 2024, at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Online access is available to registered guests. Please contact us (klaeger@uni-bayreuth.de) for details.

All times in the following are CET.


     *Thursday, 28 November*

 * 4:00pm *Keynote address, Rüdiger Zymner (Wuppertal):*
   "/Poesia et scientiae/. Didactic Poetry in the Early Modern Period"
 * 5:30—7:00pm
   *Ramunė 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*

 * 9:00am *Keynote address, Vladimir Brljak (Durham):*
   "New Science and New Criticism: Poetics among the Disciplines in
   Seventeenth-Century England"
 * 10:30—12:00am
   *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"
 * 1:00—2:30pm
   *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"
 * 3:00—4:30pm
   *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"
 * 5:00—6:00pm
   *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*

 * 9:00—10:30am
   *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—12:30am
   *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/"

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Best wishes,
Florian Klaeger

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*Prof. Dr. Florian Klaeger*

English Literature

Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Languages and Literatures | Universität Bayreuth
GW I, 1.26 | 95447 Bayreuth | Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)921 55 3525 | Web: www.englit.uni-bayreuth.de
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