VMs: Conference in Birkbeck College

[Adam McLean <alchemy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Silent Languages

Characters, Notes and Symbols in the Early Modern Period

Friday 12 and Saturday 13 April 2002

CONFERENCE VENUE: 30 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WCl

The idea of this conference is to explore the diverse uses and 
functions of symbolic notation in the early modern period. 
Beginning with the question of the emergence of algebraic 
notation against a background of apparently 'unscientific' uses 
made of various kinds of symbolic notations in the 15th
and 16th centuries, the conference organisers hope that this 
conference will stimulate a debate about the nature of the 'sign' 
and the 'symbol' in the Renaissance. Bringing together papers 
on algebra, Lullism, cryptography, universal languages, 
shorthand, the cabala, emblems, musical notation and magical 
characters we will explore the complex milieux in which 
symbolic notation emerged in the Renaissance through a wide 
range of interdisciplinary papers.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
.Michael Bath. 
Thomas Leinkauf .
J V Field.
Hakan Hakansson .
Thomas Ernst .
Alan Stewart.
Sue Wiseman


FEE: £30  

Patricia Brewerton
School of English and Humanities
Birkbeck,
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
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