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

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.

Papers are invited for a conference on ‘Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Networks, Knowledge and Forms’, due to be held at the Royal Society in London on 8-10 July 2010. The conference will explore the dynamic intellectual economies brought into being by wars, revolution, and international exploration, with particular reference to the forms in which ideas circulated; the networks of intelligencers, scribes, printers, publishers, and booksellers through which they moved; and the structures of knowledge which linked particular categories of content to particular material forms. The deadline for the receipt of 300-word abstracts is 7 January 2010; for further details and submission instructions, see the conference website.

The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at QMUL will be hosting a workshop on Thursday 17 September on ‘Digitizing Correspondence’. The event, which is sponsored by JISC, will allow archivists, editors, and researchers to converge on a range of issues relating to the digitization of letter collections in a context of presentations, round table discussions, and breakout groups. For a draft programme and booking information, please see the workshop webpage.