BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240329T230000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2a9b9f007853e9c5fb66c33a9d93a023 CATEGORIES:Call for papers CREATED:20250212T201629 SUMMARY:Call for abstracts | Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries) DESCRIPTION:Submission deadlines: 31 March 2025 (abstract) | 31 March 2026 (article)\nP ublication date: October 2026\nJournal section: Focus [read the section pol icies (https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/about/submi ssions#Focus_section_policies) | submit (https://gal-studies.museogalileo.i t/index.php/galilaeana/submission/wizard?sectionId=12)]\nWhile the role of so-called ‘practitioners’ has been studied since at least Zilsel’s 1942 wor k on The Sociological Roots of Science, the engagement of historians of sci ence with works directly written by practitioners is a relatively recent tr end (Zilsel 1942; Bertucci 2017; Smith 2022). In parallel, economic histori ans have grown increasingly interested in the role of knowledge and skill a s a key factor of socio economic change. If historians of science have come to see practitioners of the mechanical arts as key contributors to the eme rgence of processes of knowledge making hinged on experimentation, quantifi cation, and mathematisation, economic historians stress the role of labour and skill in developing, applying, and transferring innovation and technolo gy (Berg 1994; 2007; Mokyr 2017; Kelly and Ó Gráda 2022).\nIn synergy with the FIS Starting Grant Project Working Knowledge – the Emergence of Practit ioners in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2025-2028), this call is a imed at gathering contributions that explore the emergence of knowledge and skill in direct dialogue with practice, from the late middle ages to the e arly modern period. We are interested, for example, in learning about the w ays in which practical mathematicians applied mathematical procedures to an increasingly broad set of practices. Building on recent contributions that have stressed the key importance of studying practitioners’ knowledge on i ts own terms, we welcome contributions focused on sources written by practi tioners themselves. Artisans, artists, practically-minded humanists, engine ers, carpenters, weavers, skilled workers, tinkerers, instrument makers, co oks, surgeons, glassmakers, miners, and alchemists are just a few examples of the figures we are thinking of. We are interested in learning about litt le-known books of arts, handbooks, notebooks, manuals, and books of recipes , both manuscript and printed, written by these figures. We are interested in learning more about how their knowledge developed, and the factors that fostered (or hindered) its communication across physical and social spaces. We are, in a few words, interested in studying knowledge in use – how know ledge developed through its application and its engagement with material pr actices.\nTopics may include, but are not limited to:\n\n - The application s of mathematics and geometry to the mechanical arts and other practices\n - Processes of codification of practical knowledge\n - Processes and channe ls of transmission of practical knowledge\n - Attempts to governing and pol icing practical knowledge\n - Knowledge in use among underrepresented group s (in terms of gender, race, and other identities)\n - Studies on little-kn own sources written by practitioners\n - Studies on under-explored applicat ions of practical knowledge\n - Embodied histories of ideas and their conne ctions to practice\n - Exchanges between learned individuals and practition ers\n - Trading zonesAbstracts must include the author’s/co-authors’ name(s ), affiliation(s), and email address(es), in addition to a brief CV. Author s are expected to submit 500-word abstracts in English by 31 March 2025 to   Raffaele Danna ( (mailto:rd533@cantab.ac.uk)Questo indirizzo email è prote tto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.) and Fra ncesco Brusori ( (mailto:francesco.brusori3@gmail.com)Questo indirizzo emai l è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. ).\nProposals will be assessed by the journal’s editorial committee and by the editors of the Focus. Selected contributors will be notified by the end of April 2025. Articles are expected to be submitted by 31 March 2026 via the journal website at: gal-studies.museogalileo.it (https://gal-studies.mu seogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana).\nReferences:\nBerg, Maxine. 1994. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain. 2 nd ed. London: Routledge.\n———. 2007. ‘The Genesis of “Useful Knowledge”’.  History of Science 45 (2): 123–33.\nBertucci, Paola. 2017. Artisanal Enligh tenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press.\nKelly, Morgan, and Cormac Ó Gráda. 2022. ‘C onnecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics’. The Journal of Economic History 82 (3): 841–73.\nMokyr, Joel. 2017. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. Graz Schumpe ter Lectures. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.\nSmith, Pamela H. 202 2. From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Know ledge in the Early Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.\nZil sel, Edgar. 1942. ‘The Sociological Roots of Science’. American Journal of Sociology 47 (4): 544–62.\n \nMore info, on the web site (https://gal-studi es.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/announcement/view/9).\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Submission deadlines: 31 March 2025 (abstract) | 3 1 March 2026 (article)
Publication date: October 2026

Journal section: Focus [read the section policies | submit]

While the role of so-called ‘p ractitioners’ has been studied since at least Zilsel’s 1942 work on The Sociological Roots of Science, the engagement of historians of s cience with works directly written by practitioners is a relatively recent trend (Zilsel 1942; Bertucci 2017; Smith 2022). In parallel, economic histo rians have grown increasingly interested in the role of knowledge and skill as a key factor of socio economic change. If historians of science have co me to see practitioners of the mechanical arts as key contributors to the e mergence of processes of knowledge making hinged on experimentation, quanti fication, and mathematisation, economic historians stress the role of labou r and skill in developing, applying, and transferring innovation and techno logy (Berg 1994; 2007; Mokyr 2017; Kelly and Ó Gráda 2022).

In synerg y with the FIS Starting Grant Project Working Knowledge – the Emer gence of Practitioners in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe ( 2025-2028), this call is aimed at gathering contributions that explore the emergence of knowledge and skill in direct dialogue with practice, from the late middle ages to the early modern period. We are interested, for exampl e, in learning about the ways in which practical mathematicians applied mat hematical procedures to an increasingly broad set of practices. Building on recent contributions that have stressed the key importance of studying pra ctitioners’ knowledge on its own terms, we welcome contributions focused on sources written by practitioners themselves. Artisans, artists, practicall y-minded humanists, engineers, carpenters, weavers, skilled workers, tinker ers, instrument makers, cooks, surgeons, glassmakers, miners, and alchemist s are just a few examples of the figures we are thinking of. We are interes ted in learning about little-known books of arts, handbooks, notebooks, man uals, and books of recipes, both manuscript and printed, written by these f igures. We are interested in learning more about how their knowledge develo ped, and the factors that fostered (or hindered) its communication across p hysical and social spaces. We are, in a few words, interested in studying&n bsp;knowledge in use – how knowledge developed through its ap plication and its engagement with material practices.

Topics may incl ude, but are not limited to:

Abstracts must include th e author’s/co-authors’ name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es), in a ddition to a brief CV. Authors are expected to submit 500-word abstracts in English by 31 March 2025 to   Raffaele Danna (Questo indirizzo email è pr otetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.) and Francesco Brusori (Questo indirizzo email è pr otetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.).

Proposals will be assessed by the journal’s editori al committee and by the editors of the Focus. Selected contributors will be notified by the end of April 2025. Articles are expe cted to be submitted by 31 March 2026 via the jo urnal website at: gal-studies.museogalileo.it.

References:

Berg, Maxine. 1994. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-18 20: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain. 2nd ed. London: Routledg e.

———. 2007. ‘The Genesis of “Useful Knowledge”’. History o f Science 45 (2): 123–33.

Bertucci, Paola. 2017. A rtisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime Franc e. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press.

Kelly, Morgan, and Cormac Ó Gráda. 2022. ‘Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolution s: The Role of Practical Mathematics’. The Journal of Economic His tory 82 (3): 841–73.

Mokyr, Joel. 2017. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. Graz Schumpeter Lectures . New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Smith, Pamela H. 2022.  ;From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Kn owledge in the Early Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres s.

Zilsel, Edgar. 1942. ‘The Sociological Roots of Science’. American Journal of Sociology 47 (4): 544–62.

 

More info, on the web site.

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