Á La Mode Messieurs (1628), German Pamphlet (British Museum).

Second Workshop

Important and Celebrated Individual Encounters 

Venue: Sutro Room, Trinity College, Oxford University
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016

Research Questions

The second theme investigates collaborations between members of colleges, academies, and universities. How do letter exchanges and personal papers help to describe individual collaborations? Do they define types of teacher-student relations, collegiate rivalries or give hints about the exchange of books, objects and common interests? Was there a gender barrier, and was it overcome?

Provisional Programme (please watch this space for changes!)

From 10:00: Coffee

10:15－10:20: Welcome and Introduction (organisers)

10:20－11:00:

Andrea Carlino (University of Geneva)

Benedetto Varchi and Andreas Vesalius: Friendship, Scholarship and Job Market in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy

11:00－11:40:

Ian Maclean (University of Oxford)

The early institutional interactions of Germany’s ‘Academia Naturae curiosorum’

Coffee

11:55－12:35:

Laurence Brockliss (University of Oxford)

Visitors to Oxford

12:35－13:00: Peter Davidson (University of Oxford)

Book Presentation:

The Celebrated Museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus: A fascimile of the 1678 Amsterdam edition of Giorgio de Sepi’s description of Athanasius Kircher’s Museum (Stonyhurst: St. Omers Press; Philadelphia: SJU, 2015)

Lunch

14:15－14:55:

Elizabeth Sandis (University of Oxford)

Collegiate Communities and The Freshman’s Orders in the 1620s: How One Year Group of Undergraduates Welcomed the Next

14:55－15:35:

Anthony Grafton (Princeton)

Oxford and Cambridge in Confrontation: the Messrs Caius and the Early History of the Universities

Coffee

15:50－16:30: Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, University of London)

Archibald Pitcairne and Isaac Newton: A Momentous Individual Encounter, 2-3 March 1692

16:30－17:10: Hilary Perraton (Cambridge University)

Foreign Students of the British Isles 1500-1750: A Proposed Typology of Encounters

Followed by Discussion (Plenum)

Participants