Keynote address by Tara Nummedal (Brown University)

McCormick 101

Dinner

6:30-8:30pm

4:30-6:00pm  

May 1

Breakfast

McCosh 60

May 2

International Intrigue

Disguised Diplomats in a Divided Europe, 1526-1540

Megan Williams (Columbia University)

Pipe Dreams: Projecting, the East India Company, and the Mughal court

Rupali Mishra (Princeton University)

11:00-12:30pm

Chimaeras and Natural Philosophy

Charlatans, chimeras and the categories of historiography. Some remarks on Jewish alchemists in the Holy Roman Empire

Daniel Jütte (Harvard University)

Demonology and the New Philosophy: Joseph Glanvill’s Approach in Context

Angela Smith (University of Texas at Austin)

12:30-2:00pm

4:00-5:00pm 

Lunch

Charlatans in the Marketplace

The Physician as Charlatan in Early Modern Germany   

Erik Heinrichs (Harvard University)

“The marvelous effects of her secrets”: Marie Grand, Female Charlatan

Susan Somers (University of Texas at Austin)

Champion, Charlatan, or Charity-Case: John Collins and the Commerce of Mathematical Knowledge in Restoration England

Will Deringer (Princeton University)

Reception

8:45-9:15am

9:15-10:45am

2:00-4:00pm 

1:00-1:45pm

Optional visit to Prints and Drawings Room, Princeton Art Museum

Under the auspices of Renaissance Studies at Princeton.  Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, Department of English, Program in the History of Science, and Office of the Dean of the Graduate School.