BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome 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:20250709T000000 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:cf68c4781cdf575051a101ad2b2c5164 CATEGORIES:Call for papers CREATED:20260611T085507 SUMMARY:Deadline CFP: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World LOCATION:Università di Bologna DESCRIPTION:CFP: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Mo dern WorldMinerals have been extracted as resources, traded as commodities, ingested as medicine, and examined for knowledge across the early modern w orld. Their lifecycle was structured by mineral expertise rooted in traditi on and trained bodies – a bezoar pulverised by a town apothecary, ore assay ed by a company metallurgist, gemstones authenticated by a court jeweller. Minerals were key to medicine, metallurgy, alchemy and magic and thus a sit e to negotiate and legitimate forms of knowledge. Precisely because so much was at stake – both the value of objects and the reputation of people – mi neral expertise was subject to scrutiny by peers and official regulation.\n A central concern of the workshop is to critically assess the concept of ex pertise. Before the emergence of modern credentialing and professional lice nsing, claims to mineral knowledge were fluid and contested. We therefore a pproach expertise as a context-dependent process of negotiation and legitim ation. It emerged when actors combined specialised skills with claims to ge neralisable knowledge and obtained some form of formal acknowledgment for i t. Yet we are interested not only in those who have come to be recognised a s experts, but in the broader topography of knowledge within which such rec ognition was negotiated. Which empirical practices cut across distinctions of status, and which ones did not? How did expertise relate to shared knowl edge (common knowledge, the period eye, a well-indexed archive)? What disti nguished experts from experienced state officials, skilled artisans, or shr ewd market-goers? What were the rules of knowing earthly matter in the earl y modern world?\nThis workshop aims to compare mineral expertise from diffe rent angles. We are interested in contributions from historians of science, technology and medicine, economic historians, archaeologists and archaeome tallurgists working on the period between c.1450 and c.1850 CE. By using mi nerals as a boundary object both of historical actors and historians who st udy them, we aim for a richer account of how early modern people engaged th e mineral world. We aim for a history of mineral expertise that is attentiv e to local practices and alert to the broader structures of knowledge/power and value-making in which these practices were embedded.\nThe workshop wil l take place on 4-6 February, 2027 at the University of Bologna. We aim to discuss approximately 12 pre-circulated article-length papers (6.000–8.000 words) over two days. Decisions regarding the publication of the papers in a special issue will be made after the workshop. We welcome creative contri butions that engage with, but are not limited to, the following questions:\ nWhat was mineral knowledge?\n\n - What distinguished expertise in minerals from other kinds of earth-related knowledge (e.g. that of a farmer) and ex pertise in other materials (e.g. plant matter)? How were historical distinc tions asserted, contested, and institutionalised?\n - How was expertise val orised and employed in sites of labour — the mine, the home,the office, the laboratory, the museum? How did artisanal or vernacular knowledge validate or contradict expertise?\n - How was expertise valorised and employed in i mperial expansion and long-distance trade? How did different traditions of mineral knowledge interact or clash, adapt or become marginalised in contex ts of empire and colonisation?\n - When did specialist knowledge matter dec isively? When did social networks, local experience, or consensus prove equ ally or more powerful?How was mineral knowledge regulated?\n\n - How did le gal and bureaucratic frameworks — testing sites, law courts, guilds, tax re gimes — shape the conditions under which expertise was recognised and gain public authority? \n - What role did archives, records, and formal procedur es play in transforming knowledge into expertise, or expertise into public information? What do administrative sources reveal — and conceal — about th e range of actors involved in the making of mineral expertise?\n - How were conflicts over mineral expertise adjudicated, and what do such disputes re veal about competing epistemologies and claims to authority?\n - Which mora l values were invoked in policies seeking to regulate medical, commercial, and occupational practice (e.g. peace, cosmic order, the common good, thrif t, charity, godliness, justice)? Whom did experts claim to serve – and whom did they actually serve – when they worked in the ambiance of the state?We welcome papers from all parts of the world and approaches that engage with cross-cultural encounters and wide-ranging knowledge exchange, as well as those that drill deep into a specific place and time. Since early modern ca tegories were fluid and diverse, we are interested in both objects recogniz ed as “minerals” today and more expansive understandings or boundary cases. \nThe workshop is co-organized by Monica Azzolini (https://www.unibo.it/sit oweb/monica.azzolini/en), Sebastian Felten (https://ifg.univie.ac.at/en/abo ut-us/staff/academic-staff/sebastian-felten/) and Sarah Seinitzer (https:// ifg.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/project-staff/sarah-seinitzer/), as a co llaboration between the SCARCE  (https://scarce.univie.ac.at/)project (ERC StG, Grant number 101076422) and the Department of Philosophy (History of S cience) at the University of Bologna. Potential contributors should send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a 200 word bio to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vede rlo. by 10 July 2026. Limited funding is available to cover travel and acco mmodation in Bologna. 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CFP: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World

Minerals have been extracted as resources, traded as commodities, ingested as medicine, and examined for knowledge acr oss the early modern world. Their lifecycle was structured by mineral exper tise rooted in tradition and trained bodies – a bezoar pulverised by a town apothecary, ore assayed by a company metallurgist, gemstones authenticated by a court jeweller. Minerals were key to medicine, metallurgy, alchemy an d magic and thus a site to negotiate and legitimate forms of knowledge. Pre cisely because so much was at stake – both the value of objects and the rep utation of people – mineral expertise was subject to scrutiny by peers and official regulation.

A central concern of the workshop is to critically assess the concept of expertise. Before the emergence of mode rn credentialing and professional licensing, claims to mineral knowledge we re fluid and contested. We therefore approach expertise as a context-depend ent process of negotiation and legitimation. It emerged when actors combine d specialised skills with claims to generalisable knowledge and obtained so me form of formal acknowledgment for it. Yet we are interested not only in those who have come to be recognised as experts, but in the broader topogra phy of knowledge within which such recognition was negotiated. Which empiri cal practices cut across distinctions of status, and which ones did not? Ho w did expertise relate to shared knowledge (common knowledge, the period ey e, a well-indexed archive)? What distinguished experts from experienced sta te officials, skilled artisans, or shrewd market-goers? What were the rules of knowing earthly matter in the early modern world?

This workshop aims to compare mineral expertise from different angles. We are i nterested in contributions from historians of science, technology and medic ine, economic historians, archaeologists and archaeometallurgists working o n the period between c.1450 and c.1850 CE. By using minerals as a boundary object both of historical actors and historians who study them, we aim for a richer account of how early modern people engaged the mineral world. We a im for a history of mineral expertise that is attentive to local practices and alert to the broader structures of knowledge/power and value-making in which these practices were embedded.

The workshop will tak e place on 4-6 February, 2027 at the Uni versity of Bologna. We aim to discuss approximately 12 pre-circula ted article-length papers (6.000–8.000 words) over two days. Decisions rega rding the publication of the papers in a special issue will be made after t he workshop. We welcome creative contributions that engage with, but are no t limited to, the following questions:

What was mineral knowledge?

How was mineral knowledge r egulated?

We welcome papers from all parts of the world and approache s that engage with cross-cultural encounters and wide-ranging knowledge exc hange, as well as those that drill deep into a specific place and time. Sin ce early modern categories were fluid and diverse, we are interested in bot h objects recognized as “minerals” today and more expansive understandings or boundary cases.

The workshop is co-organized by Monica Azzolini, Seba stian Felten and Sarah Seinitzer, as a collaboration betwee n the SCARCE project (ERC StG, Grant number 101076422) and t he Department of Philosophy (History of Science) at the University of Bolog na. Potential contributors should send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a 200 word bio to Questo indirizzo ema il è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo . by 10 July 2026. Limited funding is available to cover travel and accommodation in Bologna. Please indicate if you have other funding sources to cover your travel expenses.

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