UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies

	Making Science: Inspiration and Reputation, 1400–1800 A conference at the Clark Library —organized by Mary Terrall, UCLA and Deborah Harkness, USC —co-sponsored by the Dibner History of Science Program at the Huntington Library and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
	Friday February 6th & Saturday February 7th 10a.m.	In 2007, the Huntington Library acquired the Burndy Library, a significant collection of books and manuscripts in the history of science. This acquisition adds to a wealth of resources for the history of science in the Los Angeles area. To celebrate the history of science—past, present, and future—in Los Angeles, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of UCLA and the Henry E. Huntington Library (with the support of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute) will be convening two conferences in 2009. This is the first of these conferences; the second will take place at the Huntington Library on May 8–9, 2009. The broad theme of the conferences, Making Science: Inspiration and Reputation, 1400–1800, has been deliberately designed to be as inclusive and wide-ranging as possible. Speakers will address such questions as: What inspired scientific ideas and practices in the early modern period? How did texts, communities, practices, and experiences inspire creative and innovative thinking about the natural world? How did images work to make knowledge and reputations? How was scientific reputation established? What role did the reputation of various kinds of practitioners play in constructing the image of “science”? How did early modern scientific biographies and autobiographies, systems of credit and patronage, and university and court affiliations help to shape attitudes towards both science and scientists?

		Registration Deadline: January 30th, 2009. Please click here for a printable registration form. Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge* *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance. Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants. Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

		Program Schedule:
	Friday, February 6th 9:30 A.M. 10.00 A.M.	Morning Coffee Session 1 — Making Images and Image-Making Welcoming Remarks Peter H. Reill, UCLA Opening Remarks Mary Terrall, UCLA Chair Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge Picture Perfect? Pictorial Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Natural History Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University Android Automata between Artisanal and Philosophical-Theological Cultures in the European Enlightenment, 1720–1780 Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California Image, Word, Thing: Transporting Imperial Nature in the Spanish Enlightenment
	1.00 P.M.	Lunch
	2.30 P.M.	Session 2 — Experience and the Construction of Expertise Jan Golinski, Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library Chair Ken Alder, Northwestern University Reading Characters: Expert and Self in Early Modern France Pamela Smith, Columbia University Making Objects, Knowing Nature: Techniques and the Knowledge of Nature in the Early Modern Era
	4:30 P.M.	Reception
	Saturday, February 7th 9:30 A.M.	Morning Coffee
	10:00 A.M.	Session 3 — The Complications of Gender Robert Frank, UCLA Chair Mary Fissell, The Johns Hopkins University Gendering Enlightenment: Sarah Stone, William Cadogan, and the Politics of Maternity Alix Cooper, SUNY Stony Brook Naming Names: Bibliography as History in the Early Modern Study of Nature Robert Goulding, University of Notre Dame Good Will Hunting: Peter Ramus’ Posthumous Influence on the Teaching of Mathematics
	1:00 P.M.	Lunch.
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