Date: Wednesday 8 January 2025 – Thursday 9 January 2025
Location: Universiteit Leiden, University Library, Vossius room
This conference marks the 25 years anniversary of the Intersections series (published by Brill) and reflects on a topical theme: the role of interdisciplinarity within the study of late medieval and early modern (expressions of) culture. conference will give participants the opportunity to examine recent paradigms in interdisciplinary research, as well as looking forward to the future of interdisciplinarity in the study of early modern culture. Papers should foreground methodologies with a view to showing how they have been put into practice. How has the series Intersections and its thematic volumes served to promote interdisciplinary approaches to the study of word and image, knowledge production, modes of reception, the history of science, the history of the emotions, and other topics in cultural history.
Speakers are invited to present a case study relevant to their practice of interdisciplinary research, with special emphasis on working across two or more media. How has interdisciplinarity as a scholarly method helped them to move beyond the boundaries of their academic discipline, and conversely, how has it allowed them to reflect on their respective disciplines and transform them? What advantages has interdisciplinary research offered scholars; what benefits can it offer them in the future?