Below is the finalised programme for 'Encyclopaedism before the Enlightenment' in June. Booking form and further details available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/encyclopedias.shtml
We have a small number of bursaries available to cover attendance costs for postgraduate students. If you would like to be considered for one of these please contact Jason Koenig (jpk3 AT st-andrews.ac.uk) by 15 May (note slightly changed deadline). Postgraduate delegates are also reminded that financial assistance for attendance is available from the Wiedemann Fund: http://www.thomaswiedemann.org.uk/
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Encylopaedism before the Enlightenment
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
13-15 June 2007
Wednesday 13 June
Encyclopaedic beginnings/encyclopaedic ideals
2-2.45: Christopher Smith (St Andrews)—Varro and Republican antiquarianism
2.45-3.30: Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge)—The origins of encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian
Library
3.30-4: TEA
4-4.45: Paul Magdalino (St Andrews)—Byzantine Encyclopaedism of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
4.45-5.30: Mary Beagon (Manchester)—A Herculean Task: "molem illam Historiae Naturalis"
5.30-6.15: Hugh Kennedy (St Andrews)—Early-Islamic encyclopaedism (title tbc)
Thursday 14 June
Organising principles and technologies:
9-9.45: András Németh (Central European University, Budapest)—Procopius and Theophylactus in
the Encyclopaedic Collections of the 10th Century Constantinople
9.45-10.30: Neil Rhodes (St Andrews)—Revisiting the Renaissance Computer
10.30-11: COFFEE
Organising principles and technologies after Aristotle:
11-11.45: Katerina Oikonomopoulou (Oxford)—Peripatetic encyclopaedism and Plutarch’s
collections of Quaestiones
11.45-12.30: Daniel Andersson (Warburg Institute)—The Organization of Knowledge in the Early
Modern Encyclopaedia: The Case of Aristotle
12.30-1.30: LUNCH
Questioning encyclopaedism
1.30-2.15: Daniel Harris-McCoy (University of Pennsylvania)—Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica as
Fragmentary Encyclopaedia
2.15-3: William West (Northwestern University)—Irony and Early Modern Encyclopaedic Writing
3-3.30: TEA
Function and audience
3.30-4.15: Teresa Morgan (Oxford)— Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of moral exempla in
Greek
4.15-5: Claudia Strobel (Oxford)—The lexica of the second century AD: The mystery of function
and readership
5-5.45: Erika Gielen (Leuven)— Byzantine encyclopaedism of the 14th century: Joseph
Rhakendytès
Friday 15 June
Practical knowledge and encyclopaedic form
9-9.45: Marco Formisano (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)—Late ancient culture: towards an
encyclopaedia of practical knowledge
9.45-10.30: Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden)— The Passion to Collect, Select, Protect, and Expurgate:
Two Thousand Years of the Chinese Encyclopaedia
10.30-11: COFFEE
11-11.45: Claire Preston (Cambridge)—Dugdale's history of drainage and the dregs of England
11.45-12.30: Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)—Celsus (title tbc)
12.30-1.30: LUNCH
Reception of Pliny
1.30-2.15: Paul Dover (Kennesaw State University)—'Reading Pliny’s Ape’ (the Polyhistor of
Solinus) in the Renaissance'
2.15-3: Ernesto Paparazzo (Istituto di Struttura della Materia del CNR)—Augustine as a reader of
the Naturalis Historia
3-3.30: TEA
3.30-4.15: Aude Doody (University College, Dublin)—Diderot's Pliny and the Politics of
Encyclopaedism
4.15-5: Concluding discussion
We have a small number of bursaries available to cover attendance costs for postgraduate students. If you would like to be considered for one of these please contact Jason Koenig (jpk3 AT st-andrews.ac.uk) by 15 May (note slightly changed deadline). Postgraduate delegates are also reminded that financial assistance for attendance is available from the Wiedemann Fund: http://www.thomaswiedemann.org.uk/
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Encylopaedism before the Enlightenment
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
13-15 June 2007
Wednesday 13 June
Encyclopaedic beginnings/encyclopaedic ideals
2-2.45: Christopher Smith (St Andrews)—Varro and Republican antiquarianism
2.45-3.30: Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge)—The origins of encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian
Library
3.30-4: TEA
4-4.45: Paul Magdalino (St Andrews)—Byzantine Encyclopaedism of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
4.45-5.30: Mary Beagon (Manchester)—A Herculean Task: "molem illam Historiae Naturalis"
5.30-6.15: Hugh Kennedy (St Andrews)—Early-Islamic encyclopaedism (title tbc)
Thursday 14 June
Organising principles and technologies:
9-9.45: András Németh (Central European University, Budapest)—Procopius and Theophylactus in
the Encyclopaedic Collections of the 10th Century Constantinople
9.45-10.30: Neil Rhodes (St Andrews)—Revisiting the Renaissance Computer
10.30-11: COFFEE
Organising principles and technologies after Aristotle:
11-11.45: Katerina Oikonomopoulou (Oxford)—Peripatetic encyclopaedism and Plutarch’s
collections of Quaestiones
11.45-12.30: Daniel Andersson (Warburg Institute)—The Organization of Knowledge in the Early
Modern Encyclopaedia: The Case of Aristotle
12.30-1.30: LUNCH
Questioning encyclopaedism
1.30-2.15: Daniel Harris-McCoy (University of Pennsylvania)—Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica as
Fragmentary Encyclopaedia
2.15-3: William West (Northwestern University)—Irony and Early Modern Encyclopaedic Writing
3-3.30: TEA
Function and audience
3.30-4.15: Teresa Morgan (Oxford)— Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of moral exempla in
Greek
4.15-5: Claudia Strobel (Oxford)—The lexica of the second century AD: The mystery of function
and readership
5-5.45: Erika Gielen (Leuven)— Byzantine encyclopaedism of the 14th century: Joseph
Rhakendytès
Friday 15 June
Practical knowledge and encyclopaedic form
9-9.45: Marco Formisano (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)—Late ancient culture: towards an
encyclopaedia of practical knowledge
9.45-10.30: Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden)— The Passion to Collect, Select, Protect, and Expurgate:
Two Thousand Years of the Chinese Encyclopaedia
10.30-11: COFFEE
11-11.45: Claire Preston (Cambridge)—Dugdale's history of drainage and the dregs of England
11.45-12.30: Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)—Celsus (title tbc)
12.30-1.30: LUNCH
Reception of Pliny
1.30-2.15: Paul Dover (Kennesaw State University)—'Reading Pliny’s Ape’ (the Polyhistor of
Solinus) in the Renaissance'
2.15-3: Ernesto Paparazzo (Istituto di Struttura della Materia del CNR)—Augustine as a reader of
the Naturalis Historia
3-3.30: TEA
3.30-4.15: Aude Doody (University College, Dublin)—Diderot's Pliny and the Politics of
Encyclopaedism
4.15-5: Concluding discussion