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        Date: 2024-11-13 09:01:27+00:00
        From: Florian Klaeger <klaeger@UNI-BAYREUTH.DE>
        Subject: The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry, Bayreuth, 28-30 November, 2024

Dear colleagues,

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 here
<mailto: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/"

Please feel free to share with your networks.

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



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