The Dis/Order of Things - interdisciplinary workshop on Enlightenment Objects and the Order of Things

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

The Dis/Order of Things - interdisciplinary workshop on Enlightenment Objects and the Order of Things

This event includes short talks by British Museum Curators Kim Sloan on the Enlightenment Gallery and Frances Carey on Cook's Hand, then a reading session using Foucault's chapter on 'Classifying' from The Order of Things to think about theorizing an object, and finally a keynote by Simon During (John Hopkins), entitled ‘Lost Objects: Magic and Mystery in the late English Enlightenment’

Saturday 24th October 1.30pm Room B36, Malet Street Building


For further information, including a download of the programme: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/news/afterfoucaultevent
Or email Luisa Cale': l.cale@bbk.ac.uk





Julia Eisner
Administrator
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

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E: j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk