Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters

Contributions are sought for a workshop on ‘Intellectual Networks and Exchanges’, due to take place at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge on 1-2 July 2010. Building on the methodological redefinition of ‘exchanges’ and of ‘networks’ which has occurred in the past three decades, the workshop will investigate cultural and intellectual networks and exchanges of ideas from the late medieval to the modern period. It will pay particular attention to the role of sources, historical factors, geography, images, and ideologies in creating, fostering, and preserving communicative practices, especially within colonial settings. For further information, please see the workshop webpage or contact the organizer, Dr Isabel DiVanna.

A workshop on ‘Go-Betweens, Translations and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries’ will take place on 13-14 November 2009 at UCL’s Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. Speakers include Sven Dupré, Toon Van Hal, Candice Delisle, Florike Egmond, Philippe Selosse, Benjamin Schmidt, Roger Hart, Matthias Schemmel, Peter Burke, Felicity Henderson, and Harold Cook. The workshop is organized by Harold Cook (UCL) and Sven Dupré (Ghent), in association with the Research Network Circulating Knowledge in Early Modern Science. For a programme, please see the workshop flyer (pdf). Registration and inquiries should be made to the Programmes Administrator, Miss Sally Bragg.