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SUMMARY:When System Met History: The Tectonics of the Modern Disciplines -
  Clifford Siskin
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Two Leverhulme Re:Enlightenment Lectures by Clifford Siskin\n\
 nHenry W and Alfred A Berg Professor of English and American Literature\, 
 New York University\; Director\, The Re:Enlightenment Project\; and Leverh
 ulme Visiting Professor at CRASSH\n\nWhen System Met History: The Tectonic
 s of the Modern Disciplines\n5pm Tues 5 March at CRASSH\nhttp://www.crassh
 .cam.ac.uk/events/2406/\n\nGuesswork: System\, Science\, and the Advanceme
 nt of Knowledge\n5pm Mon 29 April at CRASSH\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/e
 vents/2407/\n\nThese lectures examine how knowledge gets stuck and the str
 ategies for restarting it.  Ranging from past to present--and back--they l
 ink Galileo's and Bacon’s efforts to advance knowledge to efforts to sca
 le up to new possibilities today.  The first lecture highlights the “goo
 d fortune” (Bacon) of new tools\, by debuting one.  Like Galileo's spygl
 ass\, "Tectonics" zooms in--in this case\, to clarify how our modern disci
 plines emerged from Enlightenment.  The second lecture zooms out to recons
 ider the history of science in terms of Newton choosing "system" as his to
 ol for guesswork.\n\nTogether\, these lectures explore the conditions of p
 ossibility for a centre such as CRASSH--a collaborative effort to reconnec
 t the arts\, social sciences and humanities.  The first condition is the d
 ivision of knowledge into those categories\, with their second-order divis
 ions into the narrow but deep disciplines of modernity.  The second condit
 ion is that we think that there’s something to gain by this reconnect—
 that knowledge needs new forms of guesswork now.  That thought—that we h
 ave a historically-specific opportunity for reorganizing and advancing kno
 wledge—is also central to the The Re:Enlightenment Project's effort to e
 xplain and transform our Enlightenment inheritance.  These lectures are no
 t an effort to study Re:Enlightenment but to enact it.\n\nThe lectures are
  free to attend and open to all.  No registration is required. More inform
 ation: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2406/\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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