Event Description

In response to the current global health situation, MEMSA’s 14th annual conference (Durham University) is running as a digital conference, with its delegates’ papers presented as pre-recorded videos.

Borders and boundaries divided the medieval and early modern world, both its physical space and its more intangible social hierarchies and networks. Theologically, socially, domestically, and diplomatically, the medieval and early modern world sought to define its edges in order to confirm its centres. Borders and boundaries helped construct and reinforce identities, creating a sense of belonging and security; but they also partitioned, segregated, and restricted behaviour and activity. Thus borders and boundaries, once set, invited debate, defence, and defiance. Among the panels:

20 July, 11:00 BST — Boundaries of Knowledge

Grace Murray — False Ariadnes: A Guide to the Labyrinth of Early Modern Mathematics

Janka Kovács Eötvös (Loránd University) — Translating and Circulating Psychological Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Medical Literature

Elena Berger (Russian Academy of Science) — Ambroise Paré: Crossing Borders of Surgery

Monday 20 July – Wednesday 22 July 2020

Source: https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/memsa/events/conference/

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