Conference 23 May 2019- 24 May 2019

Milieus of
Minutiae

FINAL PROGRAM

Contextualizing the Small in Science, Philosophy, and Literature

As new technologies gradually rendered the invisible world available to human perception, the tiny and minor, the minute and infinitesimal gained new importance in literature, philosophy, mathematics, natural sciences, and medicine. Milieus of Minutiae explores the interconnections between this development, beginning in early modernity, and the increasingly prominent concept of the ‘milieu’ from the nineteenth century onward. The symposium will reflect on the objectivity, supra-metonymy, and ontological value of small and micrological units, from the ens minima to the detail, within particular environments, from the ecological to the social.

In English With

Natalia Cecire
Tita Chico
Amelia Groom
Nikolai Preuschoff
Malte Rauch
Pauline Selbig
John H. Smith
Elisa Tamarkin
Cynthia Wall

et al

Keynotes by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Marianne Schuller

Organized by

Elizabeth Brogden, Christiane Frey, and Ulla Haselstein

An ICI Berlin Event in cooperation with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin, generously supported by the Thyssen Foundation

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