Event Description
The second Scientiae Summer webinar series will be devoted to European Knowledge-Making in the New Worlds.
Carolyn Podruchny (York University) – “Dying in the North American Fur Trade: The Changing Meanings of the Tragic Tale of Jean Cadieux”
Djoeke van Netten (University of Amsterdam) – “The Dutch East India Company and Publishing Knowledge about the Wider World”
Simon Kow (University of King’s College) – “Indirect Encounters with Confucianism and neo-Confucianism in Enlightenment Philosophy, 1682–1748”
Jaime Marroquin (Western Oregon University), “Plinian Natural History and the Indies of the West”
Mateusz Kapustka (Zurich University), “Tertullian among the Brahmins. Idolatry and Historical Knowledge in the 18th-century ‘Malabar Rites Controversy’”
Margaret Schotte (York University), “’All the things necessary to know’: Instructions for East India Co. Mariners”
Joyce Chen (Princeton University) – “Decentering Acoustical Knowledge at the Turn of Scientific Revolution: A Comparative Analysis of Music Theory Works by Marin Mersenne and Zhu Zaiyu”
Comment: Peter Barker (University of Oklahoma)
Friday 10 June 2022, 9am–1pm EST
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