Brown Bag Lunch Series Winter 2014: Professor Liza Blake

“Systems or Nothing”: Physiologia and the History of (Literature and) Science

 When: Thursday, February 6, 12-1pm

Who: Professor Liza Blake

Where: JHB 719

Graduate students and faculty, please join the GEA and Professor Blake for the first Brown Bag Lunch of 2014:

“This presentation will serve as a conversation about a larger book manuscript in progress, entitled ‘Early Modern Literary Physics,’ which argues that early modern literary texts systematically use literary means such as poetic translations, metaphors, plot structures, and dramatic motivation to fashion coherent scientific and philosophical cosmologies. I will articulate a historical and philological argument of the project, which finds a direct correlation between the decline of early modern physics-making and the rise of early modern science, and I will discuss the implications of this historical argument for the narratives we tell about literature and science in early modernity and modernity.”