Events

28-30 November, 2024:
International conference, The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry

University of Bayreuth, Tagungszentrum des SWO

Online access available to registered guests. Please contact us here for details.

(All times are CET.)

Thursday, 28 November

• 3:30pm      Welcome
  
• 4:00pm      Keynote address, Rüdiger Zymner (Wuppertal):
  "Poesia et scientiae. Didactic Poetry in the Early Modern Period"
  
• 5:00pm      Coffee break
  
• 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"
  
• 8:00pm      Dinner (self-paid, Manns Bräu, Friedrichstraße 23, 95444 Bayreuth)
  

Friday, 29 November

• 9:00am      Keynote address, Vladimir Brljak (Durham):
  "New Science and New Criticism: Poetics among the Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century England"
  
• 10:00am      Coffee break
  
• 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"
  
• 12:00—1:00pm Lunch (in situ)
  
• 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"
  
• 2:30pm Coffee break
  
• 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"
  
• 4:30pm Coffee break
  
• 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"
  
  
• 8:00pm      Conference dinner (Liebesbier, Andreas-Maisel-Weg 1, 95445 Bayreuth)
  

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"
  
• 10:30am Coffee break
  
• 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"
  
  
• 12:30am Lunch (cafeteria)
  
• 1:30pm Closing remarks
  
• 2:30pm Guided tour (optional)