Talk and Workshop: Fictionality, Art, and Science
The event is co-organised by the AIAS 3-2-1-theme group Anatomical Theater, the Centre for the Rise of Science and Fiction, and the Centre for Early Modern Studies.
Info about event
Time
Location
AIAS, Building 1630, Room 301
Talk: Fictional Spaces of Danish Anatomical Poems, Ivana Bicak (Bilkent University)
When a stork is mangled during a seventeenth-century dissection experiment in Copenhagen's Anatomy House, its life continues in the Underworld, where it hunts Proserpina's ghastly frogs along the dark waters of Cocytus. Such is the case with the fictional representation of the scientific experiments of the anatomical theatre in a poem by Michael Kirstein, assistant to Professor Simon Paulli at Copenhagen's Anatomy House. This talk will examine the fictional spaces constructed by Danish anatomical poems and their interplay with contemporary medicine and physiology.
Workshop: Fictionality, Art and Science
The workshop will explore the broader subject of the relationship between fictionality, art, and science, giving participants an opportunity to focus on and develop their individual research agendas further. Copenhagen’s 17th century Anatomy House (Domus Anatomicus Hafniensis) will serve as a case study of how fictionality and artistic practices make use of science for their own ends. This case study raises many questions related to the broader field of fictionality, art and science: In what ways does science inspire art and fictionality? How does fictionality and art shape or reimagine science? What forms of insight can be gained from productive collaborations across these different fields? These are just some of the questions the workshop will attempt to answer.
The format consists of 10‑minute flash presentations by individual researchers followed by a roundtable discussion. Presentations of new research ideas, work-in-progress as well as mature work at all career levels are most welcome. If you wish to present at the workshop, contact Mikkel-Theis Paulsen at mtpaulsen@cc.au.dk by March 20.
Participation
The seminar and workshop is open to all and free of charge, however you are required to sign up for the event. You can sign up here.
Venue
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, AIAS
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark