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Selected Presentations

2013

• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Electrifying the Via Lucis: Information Technologies and Republics of Letters, Past, Present and Future’, Séminaire franco-britannique d’histoire, (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, December 2013).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Cultures of Communication in an Age of Crisis: The Many Layered Network of Samuel Hartlib’, Research Seminar: Circulation of Information and Ideas, (European University Institute, Florence, November 2013).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters: An Introduction to Early Modern Letters Online’, Postgraduate History Seminar, (Université de Lausanne, November 2013).
• Keynote Lecture: Howard Hotson, ‘Electrifying the Via Lucis: Communications Technologies and Republics of Letters, Past, Present, and Future’, Computer Technologies for Historical Research on Intellectual Networks (Workshop, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, October 2013).
• Paper and Demonstration: Miranda Lewis, ‘Reassembling, Managing and Navigating Intellectual Correspondence Networks with Early Modern Letters Online’, Atelier D’Alembert Et Les Digital Humanities, (Workshop, Observatoire de Paris, October 2013).
• Paper: James Brown, ‘Harvesting, Managing and Navigating Intellectual Networks with Early Modern Letters Online’, and Miranda Lewis, ”The Devil is in the Detail’, Editing Correspondence Metadata in Early Modern Letters Online’, (Workshop, Databases in Early Modern Research Tracing People, Books and Letters, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, September 2013).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Information Technologies and Republics of Letters: Past, Present, and Future’, Philipp Melanchthon und die Briefkultur des 16 Jahrhunderts (pdf) (Conference, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, September 2013).
• Keynote Lecture: Howard Hotson, ‘Electrifying the Via Lucis: Communications Technologies and Republics of Letters, Past, Present, and Future’, Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century (Conference, Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, Durham University, July 2013).
• Paper: James Brown, ‘Assembling, Managing, and Navigating Intellectual Networks with Early Modern Letters Online’. Part of three-paper panel on Electrifying Intellectual Networks: Three Case Studies in the Digital Republic of Letters with Professor Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens ING/CKCC) and Professor Antony McKenna (St Etienne/Correspondance de Pierre Bayle) at Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century (Conference, Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, Durham University, July 2013).
• Public Lecture: Howard Hotson,‘The ePistolarium and the Digital Republic of Letters: The Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the Twenty-First Century’, ePistolarium Launch (University of Utrecht, June 2013).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Toward an Intellectual Geography of Reformed Europe: Prospects and Preconditions’, Les Académies protestantes en Europe (xvie – xixe siècles): État de la recherche et nouvelles perspectives (Workshop, Institut protestant de théologie, Paris, April 2013).

2012

• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson, ‘Networking the Republic of Letters: Introducing Early Modern Letters Online’ (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, November 2012).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Networking the Republic of Letters’. Digital Transformations Moot (Conference, The Mermaid, London, November 2012).
• Demonstration: Howard Hotson, ‘Early Modern Letters Online’. To the Wissenschaftsrat of the Federal Republic of Germany, regarding collaboration between EMLO and the project to create a digital inventory and archive of the correspondence of Johann Valentin Andreae (Roundtable, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, September 2012).
• Demonstration: Kim McLean-Fiander, ‘Introducing Early Modern Letters Online’. Communities of Knowledge: Epistolary Cultures in the Early Modern World (Conference, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, September 2012).
• Discussant: Howard Hotson, Origins of Science as Visual Pursuit (AHRC) Collaborative Research Meeting (Workshop, The Royal Society, September 2012).
• Paper and Demonstration: Iva Lelkova, ‘An Insider’s View of Oxford’s EMLO Union Catalogue’. Early Modern Time and Networks (Workshop, Stanford University, August 2012).
• Paper and Demonstration: James Brown, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: Networking Early Modern Correspondence’. Sloane’s Treasures (Workshop, British Library, July 2012).
• Discussant: James Brown. This Project Will Self-Destruct in Five Years: The Beginning, Middle, and End of a Digital Humanities Project and How to Keep It Alive (Workshop, CRASSH/University of Cambridge, June 2012).
• Paper and Demonstration: James Brown and Neil Jefferies, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: Networking Early Modern Correspondence’. Visualizing Data Resources: The Potential of a Wikimedia Platform for the Digital Humanities (Workshop, Forzhungszentrum Gotha/University of Erfurt, Gotha, April 2012).
• Paper: Kim McLean-Fiander, ‘Digitizing Gender: Women’s Correspondence and Knowledge Networks in the Early Modern Era’. Situating Early Modern Science Networks (Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, April 2012).

2011

• Demonstration: James Brown, ‘Early Modern Letters Online’. Beta Launch Event (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, December 2011).
• Paper: Howard Hotson and Kim McLean-Fiander, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters: Reassembling Intellectual Communities in the Past and the Present’. Mapping Digital Communities: Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Workshop on the Digital Humanities (Workshop, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, December 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson, ‘Early Modern Letters Online: A New Resource for Sharing, Refining, and Exploring Early Modern Correspondence’. Källflöden. En konferens om digitalisering av för- och tidigmodernt forskningsmaterial (Conference, University of Gothenburg, September 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: James Brown, ‘Early Modern Letters Online: A New Resource for Sharing, Refining, and Exploring Early Modern Correspondence’. Early Modern Exchanges (Conference, University College London, September 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Kim McLean-Fiander, ‘Early Modern Letters Online: A New Resource for Sharing, Refining, and Exploring Early Modern Correspondence’. Reading Conference in Early Modern Studies: Communication and Exchange (Conference, University of Reading, July 2011).
• Paper: James Brown, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters: Networking Intellectual Communities in the Past and the Present’. Reading Conference in Early Modern Studies: Communication and Exchange (Conference, University of Reading, July 2011).
• Paper: Neil Jefferies, ‘Digital Library Technologies and Best Practice’, Digital.Humanities@Oxford (Summer School, University of Oxford, July 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson, Neil Jefferies, and James Brown, ‘Early Modern Letters Online: A Status Update on the Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue’. Representing the Republic of Letters (Workshop, Huygens ING, The Hague, June 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters: The Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue’. (Roundtable, National Library of Sweden, June 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters: The Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue’. (Roundtable, University of Uppsala Library, June 2011).
• Paper: Neil Jefferies, ‘Deconstructing Digital Libraries’, Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group USA (Conference, Redwood City, California, May 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: James Brown, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain (Conference, University of Plymouth, April 2011).
• Paper: Neil Jefferies, ‘Deconstructing Digital Libraries’, Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group Europe (Conference, British Library, April 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson and James Brown, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters: A Status Update on the Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue’. Mapping the Republic of Letters (Conference, CINI Foundation, Venice, March 2011).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson and James Brown, ‘The Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue: A New Way of Finding, Sharing, and Refining Early Modern Correspondences’. CERL Advisory Task Group (Roundtable, Merton College, University of Oxford, March 2011).

2010

• Paper and Demonstration: James Brown, ‘The Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue: A New Way of Finding, Sharing, and Refining Early Modern Correspondences’. Digital Research in the Humanities (Roundtable, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, November 2010).
• Paper and Demonstration: Howard Hotson, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Reformation between the East and the West (Conference, University of Warsaw, October 2010).
• Poster: James Brown, Howard Hotson, and Neil Jefferies, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Person – Data – Repository (Workshop, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, September 2010).
• Paper and Demonstration: James Brown and Howard Hotson, ‘The Cultures of Knowledge Union Catalogue: A New Resource for Intellectual History’. Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks in Central and Western Europe, 1560–1670 (Conference, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, September 2010).
• Poster: James Brown, Howard Hotson, and Neil Jefferies, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Digital Humanities 2010 (Conference, King’s College London).
• Paper: James Brown, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Early Modern Literary Manuscripts: Digital Initiatives to Open Bodleian Collections (Roundtable, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, May 2010).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Strategies for Building a Union Catalogue of Early Modern Intellectual Correspondence’. Encyclopaedism, Pansophia and Universal Communication, 1560–1670 (Pre-Workshop Roundtable, Central European University, Budapest, April 2010).
• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Digitisation Round Table 2010 (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, March 2010).

2009

• Paper: Howard Hotson, ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Translatio Studiorum: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Bearers of Intellectual History: International Society for Intellectual History Conference (Conference, Verona, May 2009).

Selected Publications

Forthcoming

• Philip Beeley, ‘Claude Mydorge’, ‘Pierre de Fermat’, ‘Pierre de Carcavi’, ‘Florimond de Beaune’, ‘Girard Desargues’, and ‘La géométrie’, in L. Nolan, ed., The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon (Cambridge, forthcoming).
• Philip Beeley, ‘Nova Methodus Investigandi: On the Concept of Analysis in John Wallis’s Mathematical Writings’, in H. Breger, ed., Studia Leibnitiana (Special Issue): Analysis als mathematische Methode (Stuttgart, forthcoming).
• Philip Beeley, with Kim McLean-Fiander, ‘Scholarly collaboration and the promotion of knowledge in the seventeenth century and today: Hevelius, Wallis, and Early Modern Letters Online’, in Marian Turek, ed., Johannes Hevelius: quatercentenary volume (Gdańsk, forthcoming).
• Mark Greengrass and Leigh Penman, ‘L’ombre des archives dans le cultures du savoir du XVIIe siècle. Le cas des papiers de Samuel Hartlib (c.1600–1662)’, Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes (forthcoming, accepted for publication December 2012).
• Vera Keller and Leigh Penman, ‘From the Archives of Scientific Diplomacy. Networks of Negotiation and Protestant Interest between Samuel Hartlib’s London and Frederick Clodius’s Gottorf’, ISIS. Journal of the History of Science Society (forthcoming, 2015).
• Rhodri Lewis and William Poole, eds, The Correspondence of John Aubrey (1626–97), 4 vols (forthcoming, 2014–15).

2014

• Rhodri Lewis, ‘Francis Bacon and Ingenuity’, Renaissance Quarterly 67 (2014), 113-63.
• Anna Marie Roos, ed., The Correspondence of Martin Lister (1639–1712), 3 vols, 1140 letters, ed. with annotations, introductions, and commentary (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, vol. 1, 2014; vol. 2, 2015, vol. 3, 2017).
• Vladimír Urbánek, ‘Displaced Intellectuals and Rebuilt Networks: the Protestant Exiles from the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and their Selfpresentation’ in Timothy Fehler, Greta Kroeker, Charles Parker, and Jonathan Ray, eds, Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014).

 2013

• Mary Burdett-Jones, ‘Yr arysgrif enwocaf ym mynwent eglwys Sant Mihangel, Abergele: tystiolaeth Humphrey Foulkes’, Denbighshire Historical Society Transactions, 61 (2013), pp. 29–54.
• Rhodri Lewis, ‘Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion’, in Anita Traninger and Kathryn Murphy, ed., The Emergence of Impartiality: Towards an Archaeology of Objectivity (Leiden: Brill, 2013).
• Rhodri Lewis, ‘Thinking with Animals in the Early Royal Society’, in Burkhard Dohm and Cecilia Muratori, ed., Ethical Animals, 1400–1650 (Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013).
• Jürgen Beyer and Leigh Penman, ‘Printed autobibliographies from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’ in Malcolm Walsby and Natasha Constantinidou, eds, Documenting the early modern book world: inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013).
• William Poole, ‘Down and Out in Leiden and London: The Later Careers of Venceslaus Clemens (1589–1637), and Jan Sictor (1593–1652), Bohemian Exiles and Failing Poets’, The Seventeenth Century, 28, 2 (2013).
• Vladimír Urbánek, ‘Politické myšlení Komenského a Campanelly: antimachiavellismus a universální monarchie’ [Political Thought of Comenius and Campanella: Anti-Machiavellianism and Universal Monarchy], Studia Comeniana et Historica, XLIII, 89/90 (2013).

2012

• Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba, eds, The Correspondence of John Wallis: Volume III (October 1668–1671) (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Philip Beeley, ‘The Progress of Mathematick Learning: John Wallis as Historian of Mathematics’, in B. Wardhaugh, ed., The History of the History of Mathematics (Frankfurt am Main and New York, 2012), pp. 9–30.
• Howard Hotson, ‘The Ramist Roots of Comenian Pansophia’, in Steven John Reid and Emma Wilson, eds, Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 227–52.
• Rhodri Lewis, ed., William Petty on the Order of Nature (Tempe: MRTS, 2012).
• Iva Lelková, review of ‘Anna Marie Roos, “Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the first arachnologist”’, in Acta Comeniana, 26 (2012), p.232-6.
• Iva Lelková, ‘Study Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenheimb (1627–1672) and his Role within Intellectual Networks of the Czech Lands’, Acta Comeniana, 26 (2012), p.121-40.
• Leigh Penman, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Prophet Confronts his Failures. Paul Felgenhauer’s Speculum Poenitentiae, Buß Spiegel (1625)’, in Clare Copeland & Jan Machielsen, eds, Angels of Light. Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 169–200.
• William Poole and Kelsey Jackson Williams, ‘A Swede in Restoration Oxford: Gothic Patriots, Swedish Books, English Scholars’, Lias, 39 (2012), pp. 1–66.
• Anna Marie Roos, ”Every Man’s Companion: Or, A useful Pocket-Book”: A Textual Edition of the Travel Journal of Dr Martin Lister (1639–1712), launched 2012.
• Anna Marie Roos, ‘“Naturalia”: the history of natural history and medicine in the seventeenth century,’ in ‘History Comes to Life: Natural History and Medicine in the Seventeenth Century’, special issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 66, 4 (December 2012).
• Anna Marie Roos, ‘The Art of Science: a “Rediscovery” of the Lister Copperplates’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 66, 1, 20 March 2012, pp. 1–22.
• Vladimír Urbánek, ‘Acta Comeniana – od komeniologického časopisu k revui pro intelektuální dějiny’ [Acta Comeniana: From Comenius Studies to a Review for Intellectual History], in Doubravka Olšáková, ed., Niky české historiografie. Uherskobrodská sympozia J. A. Komenského v ofenzivě (1971–1989) (Prague, 2012), pp. 49–65.
• Kelsey Jackson Williams, ‘John Aubrey’s Antiquarian Scholarship: A Study in the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’ (DPhil, University of Oxford, submitted 2012).
• Kelsey Jackson Williams, ‘Review of “The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words”, ed. Nicolas K. Kiessling’, Notes and Queries, 59, 2 (2012), pp. 273-4.
• Kelsey Jackson Williams, ‘Training the Virtuoso: John Aubrey’s Education and Early Life’, The Seventeenth Century, 27, 2 (June 2012), pp. 157–82.

2011

• Philip Beeley, ‘Leibniz and Hobbes’, in B. Look, ed., The Continuum Companion to Leibniz (London and New York: Continuum, 2011), pp. 32–50.
• Howard Hotson, ‘The Ramist Roots of Comenian Pansophia’, in Steven John Reid and Emma Wilson, eds, Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World (Aldershot: Ashgate 2011), pp. 227–52.
• Iva Lelkova, Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) and his Influence on Natural Philosophy in the Czech Lands (DPhil, University of Prague, November 2011).
• Brynley Roberts, ‘A Visit to Merthyr Tydfil in 1697′, Merthyr Historian, 22 (2011), pp. 5–10.
• Brynley Roberts, ‘Edward Lhwyd in Carmarthenshire’, Carmarthen Antiquary, 46 (2011), pp. 24–43.
• Anna Marie Roos, ‘Salient Theories in the Fossil Debate in the Early Royal Society: The Influence of Johann Van Helmont’, in Controversies within the Scientific Revolution, eds, Victor Boantza, Marcelo Dascal, and Adelino Cattani (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2011), pp. 151–70.
• Anna Marie Roos, ‘The Art of Science: a “Rediscovery” of the Lister Copperplates’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 66, 1 (published online ahead of print, 14 December 2011).
• Anna Marie Roos, Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist (Leiden, 2011).

2010

• Howard Hotson, ‘A ‘Generall Reformation of Common Learning’ and its Reception in the English-Speaking World, 1560–1642′, Proceedings of the British Academy, 164 (December 2010), pp. 193–228.
• Leigh Penman, ‘Prophecy, Alchemy, and Strategies of Dissident Communication: A 1630 Letter from the Bohemian Chiliast Paul Felgenhauer to the Leipzig Physician Arnold Kerner’, Acta Comeniana, 24 (December 2010), pp. 115–32.
• William Poole, John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 2010).
• Brynley Roberts, ‘Etifeddion Edward Lhwyd’ [The Legacy of Edward Lhwyd], Welsh History Review, 25 (2010), pp. 97–119.
• Vladimír Urbánek, ‘Suisei, Sekai no Shumatsu to Barajujushiso no Ryuko – Cheko Purotesutanto Chishikijin no Shumatsuronteki Taibou’ [‘The Comet of 1618, the End of the World and the Rosicrucian Furore: The Eschatological Expectations of Czech Protestant Intellectuals at the Beginning of the Thirty Years War’], in K. Fukasawa and M. Sakurai, eds, Yuai to Himitsu no Yoroppa Shakai Bunkashi (Tokyo, 2010), pp. 133–54.
• Kelsey Jackson Williams, ‘Review of Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed, ed. Reid Barbour and Claire Preston, and ‘A Man Very Well Studyed’: New Contexts For Thomas Browne, ed. Kathryn Murphy and Richard Todd’, Notes and Queries, 57 (September 2010), pp. 437–40.

 

Some External Coverage

• Vittoria Feola, ‘Review: Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’. Reviews in History (September 2012).
• Scott Weingart, ‘Review: Early Modern Letters Online’ .The Scottbot Irregular (January 2012).
• Matthew Reisz, ‘Surfdom’. Times Higher Education (December 2011).