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Conference - Forecasting the Weather Between Divination and Science

Date: Thursday 8 October to Friday 9 October 
Venue: Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Seminar Room 00.063 

Programme

Registration required, all welcome!

 

 

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Intellectual History Across Borders

28 September
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Spiritual and Secular Authority in Early Modern Europe: Trans-Regional Perspectives

29 September
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Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September
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Forecasting the Weather Between Divination and Science

08 October to 09 October
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Catherine Ross (Met Office), The D-Day forecast – From synoptic charts to the silver screen

08 October
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Louisiane Ferlier (Royal Society, London), Before the Forecast: The Royal Society’s Meteorological Archive as Prelude to the Met Office

09 October
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Practices of knowledge production in 18th century Europe (book discussion)

14 October
Enlightenment Workshop
Social Question Before the Social Question

A Social Question before the Social Question: Addressing Poverty in Enlightenment Europe

22 October to 23 September
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Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University), The emotional experience of Jewish secularization

29 October
Enlightenment Workshop and the Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies
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Stéphane Van Damme (Maison Française d’Oxford), Materialist New York? French late Enlightenment in the early American Republic

11 November
Enlightenment Workshop
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Karen Stolley (Emory University): Saber/conocer: ways of knowing in the Hispanic Enlightenment

19 November
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Maria Floruțău, Beyond the metropolis: Enlightenment learned societies in Batavia, Calcutta, and Manila

25 November
Enlightenment Workshop