[Sci-tech-public] REMINDER: STS Circle, April 15 - Henry Turner (Please RSVP)

[STS]

STS Circle at Harvard
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Henry Turner
Rutgers, Radcliffe Institute

on
Corporations in the Scientific and Political Life of Early Modern England


Monday, April 15
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Room 100F

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts<mailto:sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:sts at hks.harvard.edu> by 5pm Today, April 10.

Abstract: This talk provides an overview of a book on the history of corporations in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, from Thomas More to Thomas Hobbes.  It introduces the variety of activities for which corporations might be formed; it situates the corporation, as both an institution and an idea, in the history of political thought and in the history of technology, using it to offer some provisional definitions of these two domains of activity and to examine how they condition one another.  If time allows, the paper will also take up the idea of "fiction" in the classical and early modern periods, esp. in relation to theater, to see if it can usefully be viewed as a quasi-technological category.




Biography: Henry S. Turner is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he specializes in the history of theater, literary theory, and intellectual history, especially the history of science and of political thought.  He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630 (Oxford, 2006), of Shakespeare's Double Helix (Continuum, 2008).  He is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002), co-editor of a special issue of Configurations on "Mathematics and the Imagination," and co-editor of the book series "Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity" (Ashgate Press).  His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, ELH, and Isis, among other venues; he is spending the 2012-13 academic year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship.  More information and downloads of his essays can be found at www.henrysturner.com<http://www.henrysturner.com>.  Members of the STS Circle may be particularly interested in "Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa): Reflections on 'Form'" Isis 101.3 (2010): 578-89.

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