Ways of Knowing the Early Modern: Experimental Methods and Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
How best can humanities scholars collaborate with scientists and other research partners across disciplines? How does the practice of collaboration actually work?
Join us for a workshop hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's (CEMS KCL) and the Renaissance Goo Project (University of Edinburgh) which will provide insight into the practicalities and the craft of collaboration. It will ask how interdisciplinary research gets off the ground, how it works and what it can find, with an emphasis on the possibilities, and also the challenges, of cross-disciplinary collaboration. The event will feature presentations from major, funded collaborations and will include a practical session with break-out groups designed for demonstrations and informal conversation, before closing with group discussion.
Projects presenting include:
1. Renaissance Goo: Historic Personal Care Recipes and Soft Matter Science: A pilot project remaking sixteenth-century skincare recipes. (Jill Burke and Wilson Poon)
2. Odeuropa: This EU Horizon 2020 project is a collaboration across computer science, heritage science and the humanities focusing on the question of smell. (William Tullett)
3. Refashioning the Renaissance: A European Research Council consolidator project using reconstruction, amongst other methods, to explore fashion and clothing in Europe across broad social groups. (Sophie Pittman)
4. The Making and Knowing Project: A collaboration between laboratory science, palaeography, digital humanities, and history to explore relationships between today’s labs and the craft workshops of the past. (Tillmann Taape)
5. Box Office Bears (BOB): Animal baiting in early modern England: A collaboration between archaeologists, geneticists, literature and performance scholars investigating the pitting of animals against each other for human entertainment. (Hannah O’Regan and Andy Kesson).