

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Inaugural Lecture - Professor Jill Burke
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 05:15 pm – Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Professor Burke's inaugural lecture will be, 'The flax, the wasp, the goose, and the cat: The more-than-human Renaissance'.About this EventCentral Italy, the 1470s, late spring. A wasp thrums its way to an oak tree. Flax flowers nod in the breeze. A goose races with her sisters to get to the scraps. A cat leans into a stroking hand. A young man watches.Taking a sheet of sketches of a child and a cat by Leonardo da Vinci as its starting point, this lecture explores the entangled history of Renaissance ideation and argues that - rather than conceptualising this period as a succession of individual ‘geniuses’ - we should understand Renaissance art, literature and science as fragments of the more-than-human – a series of dependencies. Leonardo’s thought process was inseparable from the materials he used – pen, paper, iron gall ink - and the animal and human bodies that produced them. Because paper was cheap and quills were adaptable, this period saw a new focus on sketching, doodling and jotting down thoughts, all of which allowed for diverse types of idea formation - from shop-keepers making accounts, to servants refining domestic recipes, to natural philosophers recording observations. Using contemporary how-to books and recipes as a source, the audience will get a chance to experiment with quills and ink to gain insight into the material properties of early modern thinking.The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/inaugural-lecture-professor-jill-burke/100001983452587081
- **Event Categories**: art, sports, literary-art, fine-arts
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Edinburgh
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School - Doorway 4
- **lat**: 55.9455479
- **long**: -3.190072
- **full address**: Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School - Doorway 4, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: School of History, Classics and Archaeology (https://allevents.in/org/school-of-history-classics-and-archaeology/24731572)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 05:15 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School - Doorway 4, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, sports, literary-art, fine-arts
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