Conference

Ways of Making and Knowing:
The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Registration extended to 31 May

Ways of Making and Knowing is to be held at several participating
institutions in London from 11-15 July 2005, and sponsored by the Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, the Wellcome Trust, and the
Yale Center for British Art.
This conference aims to build on exciting new work in the history of
material culture to break down the common historiographical dichotomies
between craft skill and scientific knowledge, and to showcase some of the
most suggestive studies demonstrating that natural knowledge flowed from an
engagement with natural things. The chronological orientation of the
lectures and discussions will range from the Renaissance through the
nineteenth century.
Historians of science and medicine, art historians, and museum scholars from
various fields will learn from one another through a programme that mixes
lectures with hands-on demonstrations. The conference will be held on
several sites where expert curators and representative objects are
available, namely Chelsea Physic Garden, the British Museum, the Royal
Botanical Gardens at Kew, the Natural History Museum, London, the Victoria
and Albert Museum, and Painshill Park.

The conference is open to the public. For further details and registration,
please point your browser to:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/events11-07-05.html