Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
Conference: Error in the Age of Thomas Browne
Location: IAS, Milburn House
Proposals for 20-minute papers are welcome on any aspect of error, in Anglophone or non-Anglophone cultures, from all disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Miscalculations
- Faulty images
- Error defined by errare, as wandering
- Correction and its failures
- Error and the material book
- Humanist and religious conceptions of error
- Technology and experimentation
Please email a 250-word abstract and short biography to Dr Alice Leonard at alice.leonard@ell.ox.ac.uk.
Deadline: 20th February 2019
PhD students and those from minority backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. Small bursaries will be available to help with travel and caring costs; please request one when submitting your abstract.
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