1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium: On the Nature of Things: Preliminary Program

1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

On the Nature of Things:

Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts

Preliminary Program

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 6th floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA

8:30 Coffee and Registration

9:00 Welcome

David McKnight, Director, Manuscript and Rare Book Library, University of Pennsylvania

Susan Lindee, Chair, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

9:15 - 10: 00: The Arts and Science

Alejandro García Avilés, Universidad de Murcía, Spain

Medieval Diagrams of the Heavens and Monastic Time-Keeping

10:00-10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 12:30: Writing Science in the East

Gabriele Ferrario, Independent Scholar

A Medieval Arabic Alchemical Lexicon: Ms Sprenger 1908 in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Mss Egerton 709 and Or. 1593 in the British Library

Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute

Manuscripts of Latin Translations from Arabic

Kim Plofker, Union College

Spoken text and written symbol: the use of layout and notation in Sanskrit scientific manuscripts

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30: Scientific Texts in Lay Contexts

Monica Green, Arizona State University

Gendering the Audiences of Medieval Scientific Texts: The Case of Chiromancy

Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania

Spectacles of Erudition: Physicians and the Vernacular Medical Treatise in Early Modern Spain.

3:30 - 3:45 Coffee

3:45 - 5:45 Scientific Manuscripts in the Digital Age: A Panel Discussion

Moderator:

Gerhard Brey, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London

Panelists:

Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy

John A. Walsh, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute

Menso Folkerts, Institute for the History of Science of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Marilyn Deegan, Center for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London

Dominik Wujastyk, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University College, London

6:00 - 7:00 Reception

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