Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World

This Expert Workshop brings together scholars in the history of science and in literature and science to explore these questions, with particular attention to the disciplinary convergences and distinctions such approaches reveal.

Focusing on the early modern period, participants will consider the embodied practices – both prescriptive and descriptive – through which natural philosophy took shape. These practices may be enacted through human and nonhuman bodies, technologies, texts, or other material structures. The workshop will also examine the forms of knowledge these practices enable, as well as those they constrain or foreclose.

Organised by Dr Ros Powell (University of Amsterdam) and Prof Tita Chico (University of Maryland and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies).

Co-sponsored by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies.