SPPRE at Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2025
We are organising three panels at the 2025 RSA conference in Boston, in succession on Saturday 22 March.
Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580–1750) I
Saturday, March 22, 2025 (11:00 AM - 12.30 AM)
Boston Marriott Copley Place - Exeter Room - 3rd Floor
Chair: Cassandra Gorman (Anglia Ruskin University)
Panel Respondent: Hania Siebenpfeiffer (University of Marburg)
Kevin Killeen, University of York, The Drunkenness of Things Being Various: Scientific Excess and Necro-Encyclopaedism
Jane Cooper, Oxford, “The Crystall’d streams, / The Sulphur Rocks”: Natural Knowledge and the Underworld in Restoration Pindaric Odes
J. M. Cárdenas, McGill University, The Poet’s Prerogative: Scientific Invention in Jonson and Cavendish
Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580–1750) II
Saturday, March 22, 2025 (2:30 PM - 4:00 PM)
Boston Marriott Copley Place - Exeter Room - 3rd Floor
Chair: Kevin Killeen (University of York)
Panel Respondent: Irina Tautschnig (University of York)
Trina Hyun, University at Buffalo (SUNY), “In the lesser is a Voice”: Thomas Guidott’s Insect Poetics
Charlotte Newcombe, University of York, UK, “Poems Breathed Forth”: Breath, Sound, and Voice in Hester Pulter’s Poetry
Felicity Sheehy, Cambridge University, Abraham Cowley’s Poetics of Distillation
Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580–1750) III
Saturday, March 22, 2025 (4:30 PM - 6:00 PM)
Boston Marriott Copley Place - Exeter Room - 3rd Floor
Chair: Florian Klaeger (University of Bayreuth)
Panel Respondent: Maja Friederike Rausch (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Cassandra Gorman, Anglia Ruskin University, “I am all a storm”: Chaos in Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry
Namratha Rao, University of York, “Thus they relate / Erring”: The Problem of Chaos in Paradise Lost
Dr. Sam Hushagen, University of Washington, Analogy in Natural Philosophy: Lucretius and Milton
Vladimir Brljak, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / Durham University, Paradise Lost as Scientific Poetry: The Miltonic Universe of James Gall