9:00 Registration & Coffee

9:30 Session 4 The Wilderness of Forms: Bacon and Browne

Moderator:JonathanPost(UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles)

KathrynMurphy(OrielCollege,Oxford)“TheWildernessofFormsandtheDifferenceofThingsinBrowneandHisContemporaries”

CarynO’Connell(UniversityofChicago)“‘ContinuallConversation’:LateBaconandBrowne”

11:30 Lunch

12:30 Session 5 Fact and Fiction

Moderator:MordechaiFeingold(Caltech)

SethLobis(ClaremontMcKennaCollege)“FactandFictioninRalphCudworth’sTrue Intellectual System of the Universe”

VeraKeller(UniversityofOregonHonorsCollege)“ErrorsandNon-Entities:BrowneandHartlibbetweenDiscourseandCatalog”

F R I D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:30 Welcome: SteveHindle(TheHuntington)

Remarks:JessicaWolfe(UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill)

10:00 Session 1 Browne and the Royal Society

Moderator:LoriAnneFerrell(ClaremontGraduateUniversity)

ReneeRaphael(UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine)“ReadingMinesandMiningTexts:ReadingandObservationalPracticeintheWritingsofEdwardandThomasBrowneandtheEarlyRoyalSociety”

RhodriLewis(St.Hugh’sCollege,Oxford)“TheirMannerofDiscourse?ScribalCulture,Civility,andtheEarlyRoyalSociety”

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session 2 Language and “Characters”

Moderator:KristineHaugen(Caltech)

J.D.Fleming(SimonFraserUniversity)“UnrealCharacters:TechnologyandOralityintheSeventeenthCentury”

ClairePreston(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon)“ThePunctualRelationsofMusaeum Clausum”

3:00 Break

3:15 Session 3 Negative Knowledge

Moderator:DeboraShuger(UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles)

KevinKilleen(UniversityofYork)“TheFleetingShapeoftheAbsentGod:The Garden of CyrusandtheApophatic”

JessicaWolfe“BrowneandtheSilentText”

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Featuringtwelveleadingexpertsinthe

literary,philosophical,andscientific

cultureofseventeenth-century

England,thisconferencefocusesonthe

worksandworldsofSirThomasBrowne,the

physician,essayist,andnaturalistwhowasone

oftheera’smosteloquentandidiosyncratic

interpretersofthebookofnature.

l o c a t i o n

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2:30 Break

2:45 Session 6 The Ethics of Naturalism and the Science of Error

Moderator:GideonManning(Caltech)

JoannaPicciotto(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)“WhyLookatAnimals?”

AnthonyOssa-Richardson(UniversityofSouthampton)“ThePericardiumofTruth:ThomasBrowneandtheScienceofError”

4:45 Closing Remarks: JessicaWolfeandReidBarbour(UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill)

S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

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Truth and Errorin

Thomas BrowneEarly Modern Science:

and his world

Truth and Errorin

Thomas BrowneEarly Modern Science:

and his world