Robert Grosseteste and the pursuit of Religious and Scientific learning in the Middle-Ages. (Springer 2016) Eds. Jack P. Cunningham & M. Hocknull. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33468, ISBN 978-3-319-33466-0. No. of pages 401. No. of illustrations 16 colour. £86.00. July 2016 will see the publication of the proceedings of the 3rd international Robert Grosseteste Conference which took placeContinue reading “New Publication: Grosseteste and Religious and Scientific Learning”
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Through a Glass Darkly – Creative Collaboration Seminar 1
Next Tuesday, 31st May, sees the first activity in the collaboration between the Ordered Universe and the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, Through a Glass Darkly. We have a day of creative collaboration across a wide range of media. Brian, Giles, Hannah, Clive, Josh, Ana Dias – a PhD student in medieval manuscript illumination atContinue reading “Through a Glass Darkly – Creative Collaboration Seminar 1”
On the Utility of the Arts
A reminder for Durham-based Ordered Universe participants and devotees, that tomorrow we have a two-session On the Utility of the Arts on Grosseteste’s treatise De artibus liberalibus- On the Liberal Arts. Starting at 10.30 and finishing at 2.30, the seminar takes place in the Hatfield College SCR Dining Room. We will be joined by Faith WallisContinue reading “On the Utility of the Arts”
Spektrum Success: Ordered Universe Creatives
It is a great pleasure to report that Alexandra Carr has been awarded a place at a major exhibition organised by Spectrum, a convergence of cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups based in Berlin. The exhibition, States of Matter, takes place in June, 23-26, this summer. The exhibit, The Lens of Sound takes the form of a video presentation inContinue reading “Spektrum Success: Ordered Universe Creatives”
Ordered Universe in Toronto May 2016
May 8th-17th: Ordered Universe team members, along with staff and students from Durham University’s Department of History and Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, joined the annual medieval migration to the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. We travelled via Toronto, and held a joint conference on Monday 9th May, hosted byContinue reading “Ordered Universe in Toronto May 2016”
From Difference to Understanding: Responses to Interdisciplinary Research
At the last Ordered Universe public lecture in Rome, ‘Wonders of the Universe‘ we conducted a brief survey of those attending. Of particular interest was a question about the interdisciplinary research. What, we asked before the lecture did people understand by interdisciplinary research? The answers, some 25 in total, provided an intriguing set of responses:Continue reading “From Difference to Understanding: Responses to Interdisciplinary Research”
The Ordered Universe Project Returns to (one of) its Roots
I received an invitation last year to give a seminar that was impossible to turn down. Every Wednesday afternoon the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University holds a proper academic seminar – 3.15 to 5pm, giving plenty of time to expound an idea as well as have it comprehensively discussed. IContinue reading “The Ordered Universe Project Returns to (one of) its Roots”
“Education is all about changing your mind.”
This is a quotation from Kathy Bader, one of the PhD students involved in the Ordered Universe Project. It sums up an almost self-evident truth, and nonetheless it’s something one can sometimes forget when it comes to thinking about choosing between courses or jobs or generally between things to which one could devote one’s timeContinue reading ““Education is all about changing your mind.””
Back to the roots
During the most recent of the Ordered Universe Symposia, medieval specialists and modern scientists applied their minds to Robert Grosseteste’s De sphera (On the sphere). In this early treatise of his, Grosseteste describes the movements of the heavenly bodies in the firmament according to the observer’s position on earth. The astronomical knowledge available during theContinue reading “Back to the roots”
‘Writing is thinking.’
Collaborative reading sessions very much form the backbone of Ordered Universe Symposia. The members of the interdisciplinary working group sit around a large table and go through the draft translations provided by Sigbjorn Sonnesyn, and they often find themselves discussing how to best render individual Latin terms in English. The ideal translation conveys what GrossetesteContinue reading “‘Writing is thinking.’”