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Abstract: Travel has a long and intimate history with philosophy. Travel also has a long and intimate relationship with fiction. Sometimes travel fiction acts as ‘thought experiments’, experiments that we can run through in our heads. This talk explores a 1666 fiction travelogue, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World. In the novel, a virtuous young lady is… Continue Reading Talk by Emily Thomas (Durham University): Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World

 

Organized by Laura Rosenthal (Professor of English, University of Maryland) & Scott Trudell (Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland) The Intermedia Restoration is a one-day conference that takes the interdisciplinary conversation in media history back to an especially vibrant intersection: the English Restoration, c. 1660-1700. This period of media novelty upon media novelty included… Continue Reading Conference: The Intermedia Restoration

Keynote Speaker: Eileen Hunt Botting – University of Notre Dame Women have had a far deeper and more extensive influence on the history than is commonly realised. Far from confining their interests to questions of gender and domestic matters, women have been writing on all aspects of philosophy for as long as such a discipline… Continue Reading Conference: Bridging the gender gap through time: how women philosophers of the past contributed to today’s thought