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CONFERENCE: Artisans of the Surface in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1750 20-21 September 2018 King’s College London The Renaissance Skin project (www.renaissanceskin.ac.uk), led by Professor Evelyn Welch, is holding its next major international workshop 'Artisans of the Surface in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1750' on 20-21 September. The workshop focuses on the practices of a range of artisans and their relationships with the fields of meteorology, botany, natural history, medicine, earth sciences, and veterinary medicine. These artisans and their practices shared a set of skills related to the observation and manipulation of human and non-human surfaces. We will explore how, and if, practical knowledge about the surface of things and bodies (and their storage and preservation in relation to specific environmental conditions) led to the concept of nature and matter as composed of layers, and how such a framework contributed to the demise of traditional Galenic and Aristotelian views on nature. This workshop also aims at getting past the dichotomies between quantitative and qualitative knowledge and between natural philosophy and the arts, and so we intend to broaden the focus to include a set of artisans who have traditionally remained invisible from accounts of this ‘age of the new’. We will explore the many different ways in which ‘modern science’ emerged, the relationships between social and cognitive practices, and the contribution that non-mathematical sciences gave to the mental habits of observing, collecting, experimenting with, and manipulating natural matter. Speakers: Marta Ajmar, Carla Benzan, Brad Bouley, Maria Conforti, Elaine Leong, Jason Nguyen, Jennifer Park, Carolin Schmitz To register, please visit https://renaissanceskin.ac.uk/events/workshop-artisans-surface/ The Renaissance Skin project is funded by the Wellcome Trust. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MAT-REN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MAT-REN&A=1