NEER Research Cluster

Notebooks and Note-taking in Early Modern Europe

MEMBERS

Professor Richard Yeo (Griffith) - Coordinator
Professor Peter Anstey (Sydney and Otago, NZ)
Professor Ann Blair (Harvard, USA)
Professor Evelyn Tribble (Otago, NZ)
Professor Yasmin Haskell (UWA)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

The function of this Research Cluster is to pursue three interrelated strands of inquiry:

1. Note-taking as a cultural and intellectual practice in the Early Modern period, especially its connection with assumptions about individual and externalised memory;

2. The use of notebooks of various kinds in different fields, especially in medicine and natural history;

3. Reflection on manuscript notebooks and related material in the history of science and ideas.

EVENTS (INCLUDING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS)

Meetings:

May 2007: Visit of Cluster member Lyn Tribble (Otago) for seminar presentation and planning meeting, Brisbane.

December 2007: Planning meeting for conference in 2008.

Conferences and symposia:

17-19 July 2008: The dual NEER Theme symposium "Notebooks and Note-takers: da Vinci to Darwin" was held in Brisbane. About 80 people attended the opening public lecture, sponsored by the State Library of Queensland. Over the next two days, about 40 attended each day.

The Cluster made a contribution to funding travel and accommodation of Ann Blair as keynote speaker.

Post-Conference workshop in Brisbane, 21 July 2008: discussion of papers and type of published outcome.

Seminars:

May 2007: Lyn Tribble (Otago) seminar presentation at University of Queensland, attended by staff and postgraduates in English, History and Philosophy.

PUBLICATIONS

A special issue of the internationally refereed journal, Intellectual History Review (Routledge), has been secured for September 2010. This will be co-edited by Blair and Yeo.

Monographs in preparation by Tribble, Blair, Anstey, Haskell and Yeo.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Media coverage of symposium: ABC Radio National interview on "Late Night Live" with Blair and Yeo;

The Australian, 30 July 2008, p. 20;

ABC local Radio, Hobart, 10 July 2008, Richard Yeo interviewed by Annie Warburton.

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