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Dear All,

 

The 2016 Thomas Harriot Seminar will be held in room 152 (first floor) in the Main Building of Birkbeck, University of London (Tavistock Place) on Monday 11 July. Registration is free, and there are some places left, but please let me know whether you wish to attend by Friday 8 July. The programme follows below.

 

Stephen Clucas ([log in to unmask])

 

THOMAS HARRIOT SEMINAR 2016

 

Monday 11 July 2014. Room 152 (first floor), Main Building (Tavistock Place)

Birkbeck, University of London.

 

 

 

9.45-10.00 Welcome

 

Session 1: 10.00-11.30: Early Modern Mathematics

 

Angela Axworthy (Max Planck Institute Berlin): “Conceptions of motion in geometrical definitions according to sixteenth-century commentators of Euclid.”

 

Eleanor Chan (St Catherines College, Cambridge) “The Kinesic Imagination in Early Modern Northern European Mathematics.”

 

11.30-12.00 Tea and Coffee

 

Session 2: 12.00-13.30: The Virginia Colony

 

Misha Ewen (UCL) “'Concern for the Fabric of Commonwealth: Tudor Concepts and Transportation to Virginia, c. 1606-1621.”

 

Lauren Working (University of Durham) “Thomas Harriot's Virginia: Envisaging the Algonquian in the Jacobean Metropolis.”

 

13.30-14.30 LUNCH

 

Session 3: 14.30-15.30: English cosmology in Harriot’s time

 

James Christie (Warburg Institute) “'From Astrology to Aliens: A Shift in Early Modern Cosmology.”

 

Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) “How might a soul of the Earth act?”

 

15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee

 

Session 4: 16.00-16.45: Harriot and Archaeology

 

Mark Horton (University of Bristol): “Harriot and Native American culture: an archaeological perspective.”

 

16.45-17.30: Thomas Harriot Seminar Committee Meeting [Council Members Only]

 

 

The seminar is free. To register please email the Chairman, Dr Stephen Clucas: [log in to unmask]

 

For more information about the seminar please visit our webpage: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_seminars/thomas-harriot-seminar

 

 

 

Dr Stephen Clucas,

 

Editor, Intellectual History Review

 

Reader in Early Modern Intellectual History,

Birkbeck, University of London,

Malet Street,

London WC1E 7HX

 

Tel: 020 3073 8421