{"id":2133,"date":"2018-03-31T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2018-06-09T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:50:55","slug":"york-conference-beyond-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/2018\/03\/york-conference-beyond-words\/","title":{"rendered":"York Conference &#8211; Beyond Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CREMS William Franke on Apophasis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3FQS8Jm9e8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"location\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/static\/1.4\/img\/logo.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"header\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content-container\" class=\"wide\">\n<div id=\"mdcolumn\">\n<h1>Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity<\/h1>\n<p class=\"newsPosted\">Posted on 4 June 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsTeaserText\">In this Keynote Address, Prof William Franke closes a conference on the parameters of the unknowable and the unutterable in early modernity.<\/p>\n<p>His talk addresses one of the most important figures on the cusp of the Renaissance, Nicolas of Cusa, and how his apophatic ideas \u2013 the language of what can\u2019t be said\u2013 emerged in concert with the artistic and scientific thought of the era.<\/p>\n<p>The talk was the culmination of a day of papers that spoke to natural philosophy, music, poetics and the theological in early modern thought in relation to the apophatic. The full programme can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/crems\/events\/conferences\/2018-19\/beyond-words\/\">Here<\/a>. The conference was part of the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/english\/news-events\/browne\/\">Thomas Browne Seminar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\">\n<p><a class=\"addthis_button_expanded\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/crems\/news\/2018\/beyond-words-keynote\/#\">0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Video Recording with Introduction and Question\/Answers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Franke - Apophasis - CREMS (University of York)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AM_bibRhDBw?start=36&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"footer\">\n<p class=\"left vcard\"><span class=\"org\"> <span class=\"organization-unit fn\">Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"street-address\">University of York<\/span>, <span class=\"organization-name\">Berrick Saul Building<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"adr\"> <span class=\"locality\">Heslington<\/span>, <span class=\"region\">York<\/span>, <span class=\"postal-code\">YO10 5DD<\/span>, <span class=\"country-name\">UK<\/span> <\/span><br \/>\nTel: <span class=\"tel\"> <span class=\"type hidden\">work<\/span> <span class=\"value\">01904 328128<\/span><\/span>|<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-grid__box o-grid__box--threequarters o-grid__box--threequarters@medium o-grid__box--threequarters@small o-grid__box--threequarters@tiny\">\n<h2 class=\"c-main-header__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-main-header__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/static\/1.5\/img\/logo.svg\" alt=\"University of York\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in Early Modernity <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday 1 June 2018, 9.00AM to 18:00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>(keynote) William Franke (Vanderbilt) Author of \u2018On What Cannot be Said\u2019 and \u2018A Philosophy of the Unsayable\u2019 (among others).<\/p>\n<p>This conference will explore the parameters of the Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity. It will range across the theological, the literary and the scientific, to attend to what early modern thinkers deemed beyond what they could find words for. If this apophatic inheritance \u2013 the language of what can\u2019t be said &#8211; was a theological-mystical mode of thinking, what happened to it in the post-reformation climate of thought? Did natural philosophy understand the knowable limits of nature in the manner of the apophatic? How did emergent science negotiate the edges of what could be thought? What uses did early modern writers find for the apophatic traditions, Dionysius, Cusa, or John Scotus Eriugena? How did early modern poetry attend to the ineffable and that which was beyond words? The conference invites papers on the unknowable, the unutterable, the unthinkable and the unsayable, all broadly considered, in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, whether English or European.<\/p>\n<p>This symposium is part of the lax and diffuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/english\/news-events\/browne\/\">Thomas Browne Seminar series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Programme:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natural philosophy and the unspeakable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allegra Baggio Corradi (Warburg),\u00a0The\u00a0<em>leksikon fantastikon<\/em>\u00a0of Niccol\u00f2 Leonico Tomeo: The notion of\u00a0<em>halitus<\/em>\u00a0between natural science and divination<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Kiddle (University of Western Australia),<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Encountering the Deity through His Works: Bacon, the Apophatic and the Emergent Science.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Tracey (Science Museum), Point not only in respect of the Heavens above us, but of that (\u2026) Celestial Part within us\u2019: Negotiating Early Modern Cosmography through Books and Instruments<\/p>\n<p><strong>English Religious untterables<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Manning (Leicester), Some Remnants of Pseudo-Dionysius? Rethinking Henry Hammond\u2019s Practical Divinity<\/p>\n<p>Mathilde Zeeman (York)<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Lancelot Andrewes and the apophatic<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Killeen (York), The Jobean Apophatic and the symphonic unknowability of the world<\/p>\n<p><strong>English poetic silences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chance Woods (Vanderbilt University),\u00a0The Apophatic Baroque: Poetry as Negative Theology in Angelus Silesius and Richard Crashaw<\/p>\n<p>Travis Williams (University of Rhode Island),\u00a0Unspeakable Creation: Writing in\u00a0<em>Paradise Lost<\/em>\u00a0and Early Modern Mathematics<\/p>\n<p>Rosie Paice (Portsmouth),\u00a0\u2018Lik\u2019ning spiritual to corporal forms\u2019: translation as theme and event in\u00a0<em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music, Allegory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julie R. Klein (Villanova), How to Move beyond Language<\/p>\n<p>Jelle Kalsbeek (Warburg),<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Isaac Beeckman and musical apophatic<\/p>\n<p>Nika Kochekovskaya (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Allegory as an expression of the unutterable in early modern literature: case of M.K. Sarbiewski (1594-1645)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote speaker<\/strong>: William Franke (Vanderbilt),\u00a0Paths Beyond Words: The Ways of Unsaying in Early Modernity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission: <\/strong>Registration details to follow soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk\">crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/2018\/03\/york-conference-beyond-words\/beyond-words-york-conference-poster-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2018\/03\/Beyond-Words-York-Conference-Poster2.png\" alt=\"Beyond Words York Conference Poster\" width=\"595\" height=\"842\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies &nbsp; Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity Posted on 4 June 2018 In this Keynote Address, Prof William Franke closes a conference on the parameters of the unknowable and the unutterable in early modernity. 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