Faith in a Material World: Creative Productions of Natural Philosophy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Date: 3 October 2025

This seminar seeks to investigate how a diverse range of individuals responded creatively to making faith meaning in the natural /material world in medieval and early modern Europe through artistic, topographical, architectural, embroidered, ceramic, and other material or unusual interventions into natural philosophy and religion. Selected essays may be invited as part of a special issue planned from this event.

Keynote speakers: Prof Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (Sorbonne University); Prof Denis Crouzet (Sorbonne University)

Format: 20 min papers; hybrid event: on ACU Melbourne campus and online

Submission contact: Please send questions and proposals (a title, abstract 300 word maximum and short bio) to Susan Broomhall by 25 July 2025: susan.broomhall@acu.edu.au