Call for Papers
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
15 March 2014
Proposals due by 30 September 2013
A one-day symposium sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil
Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College and the Office of
Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield
This symposium will explore visual representations of
scientific inquiry produced, collected, distributed or otherwise circulating in
New England from the start of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Beginning with the scientific discoveries of the Enlightenment and
extending through the 19th and into the 20th centuries, New Englanders sought
to understand and explain scientific paradigms through two and
three-dimensional representations. Botanical drawings, geological maps and
charts, anatomical models, waxworks, and dioramas are just a few of the methods
through which professionals and amateurs employed artistic methods and
techniques in pursuit of scientific research and pedagogy. How did these
representations shape scientific understanding? How did scientific ideas
produce particular types of objects?
What was the nature of collaboration between scientist and artist? How
was the art of science put to pedagogical use in a variety of educational
institutions from classrooms to lecture halls and museums?
Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature
rather than descriptive and should be approximately 20 minutes long. Please
submit 250-word proposals and a two-page c.v. via electronic mail to Martha
McNamara, mmcnamar@wellesley.edu
and Barbara Matthews, bmathews@historic-deerfield.org.
Proposals should include the title of the paper and the presenter's name. The
deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2013.
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