New Approaches to Preindustrial Technology: Bodies, Minds, and Machines

Yale University (New Haven, CT)

Friday, April 20, 2018 2:00 pm EDT to Saturday, April 21, 2018 5:30 pm EDT

Luce Hall, Room 203

An international workshop organized by Paula Bertucci with the support of the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, the Department of History, and the Humanities Program.
 
Program
20 April 2018, 2:00 - 5:30
2:00-2:30 Opening Remarks
Paola Bertucci, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University: The Question(s) Concerning Preindustrial Technology
 
Session 1: Machines, Minds, and Souls
Chair: Deborah Coen, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
 
2:30-3:50
Matteo Valleriani, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: The Epistemic Function of the Early Modern “Theaters of Machines” and Their Images
Koen Vermeir, CNRS Paris: Religion and Technology in the Early Modern Period
 
3:50-4:10 Coffee Break

4:10-5:30
Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College: Instruments for Certainty in the Middle Ages
Matthew Jones, Columbia University: Logic, Reckoning Machines, Labor
 
21 April 2018, 9:00 - 5:30
 
9-9:30 Breakfast
 
Session 2: Bodies and Machines
Chair: Marisa Bass, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
 
9:30-10:50
Pamela O. Long: Leonardo and the Lure of the Machine
Jessica Keating, Carleton College: Early Modern Automata: Animating Art History
 
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
 
11:10-12:30
Heidi Hausse, Columbia University: Butcher, Baker, Gun and Clockmaker: The Many Crafts of Making Mechanical Limbs in Early Modern Europe.
Lucia Dacome, University of Toronto: The Art and Craft of Embodiment: Weaving Together the Bodily Machine
 
12:30-2:00: Lunch
 
Session 3: Machines and Modernity
Chair: Heidi Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania
 
2:00-3:20
Luca Molà, European University Institute: Reinventing Renaissance Modernity: The Development of Intellectual Property Rights in Italy and Europe, 15th-17th Centuries
Vera Keller, University of Oregon: The Engine Looms: Techne, Technology, and Interest
 
3:20-3:40 Coffee Break

3:40-5:00
Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut State University and Folger Shakespeare Library: Machines in and of New Worlds: European Encounters with Preindustrial Technology
Jessica Riskin, Stanford University: From Machines to Mere Machines
 
5:00-5:30
General Discussion