Day Agenda Day Month Week 8 February 2018 8 Thu All-day 12:00 AM 1:00 AM 2:00 AM 3:00 AM 4:00 AM 5:00 AM 6:00 AM 7:00 AM 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM 10:00 PM 11:00 PM 5:00 PM Talk by Emily Thomas (Durham University): Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World @ University College Dublin Talk by Emily Thomas (Durham University): Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World @ University College Dublin Feb 8 @ 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Tickets 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 6:00 PM Talk: Lara Dodds – Forms, Formlessness, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish @ Harvard University Talk: Lara Dodds – Forms, Formlessness, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish @ Harvard University Feb 8 @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Tickets 8 February 2018 Subscribe Add to Timely Calendar Add to Google Add to Outlook Add to Apple Calendar Add to other calendar Export to XML