Unfortunately, can't make the conference, but am very interested in the
topic as described:
 
"This conference aims to build on exciting new
work in the history of material culture to break down the common
historiographical dichotomies between craft skill and scientific knowledge,
and to showcase some of the most suggestive studies demonstrating that
natural knowledge flowed from an engagement with natural things"
 
Can you please send a bibliography of some of these studies?
 
Thanks,
Dave

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Subject: Ways of Making and Knowing: Registration extended to 31 May



Conference
Ways of Making and Knowing: 
The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge
Registration extended to 31 May
Ways of Making and Knowing is to be held at several participating
institutions in London from 11-15 July 2005, and sponsored by the Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, the Wellcome Trust, and the
Yale Center for British Art. This conference aims to build on exciting new
work in the history of material culture to break down the common
historiographical dichotomies between craft skill and scientific knowledge,
and to showcase some of the most suggestive studies demonstrating that
natural knowledge flowed from an engagement with natural things. The
chronological orientation of the lectures and discussions will range from
the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Historians of science and
medicine, art historians, and museum scholars from various fields will learn
from one another through a programme that mixes lectures with hands-on
demonstrations. The conference will be held on several sites where expert
curators and representative objects are available, namely Chelsea Physic
Garden, the British Museum, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the Natural
History Museum, London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Painshill Park.
The conference is open to the public. 
For further details and registration, please point your browser to:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/events11-07-05.html



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