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SUMMARY:Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century
  - Prof. Bill Lubenow Visiting Fellow\, Wolfson College &amp\; The Richard
  Stockton College of New Jersey
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:E.M. Forster’s famous phrase\, “Only Connect\,” is not o
 nly a guide to a successful emotional life\; it is also a guide to cogniti
 on. The universities were reformed in the nineteenth century but despite t
 his they still lacked curiosity\, imagination\, originality\, in short\, w
 hat we might call research. Consequently the cultivation of knowledge was 
 thrust out into those colonies of learned societies which emerged in  \nth
 is period: the Royal Society\, the Metaphysical Society\, the Philological
  Society\, the Royal Asiatic Society and many others. This talk takes up t
 he inner history of these societies and shows the ways  \nin which knowled
 ge formation was a social process. Learning was spawned in the interstices
  of conviviality and sociality. 
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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