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Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal', 1654 _METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART/PUBLIC DOMAINA meeting of the interdisciplinary Early Modern reading group: Writing Technology/the technology of writing24 April 2019St John's College, 10am-1pmConvenors:Jennifer Oliver, St John’s&#160;and Marie-Thébaud-Sorger, MFOwith Frederique Ait Touati, CNRS/CRALThis meeting will fully inaugurate our ‘Performance’ theme,&#160;with our guest speaker,&#160;Frédérique Aït-Touati&#160;(CNRS/CRAL, Paris), presenting work from her current project on seventeenth-century ‘theatres of the earth’: the presentation will focus on the links between scenography and machine-plays, Descartes’s&#160;Météores&#160;(Meteorology),&#160;and his concept of&#160;the&#160;res extensa.10am: Main&#160;presentation and discussion on&#160;Descartes’s&#160;Météores&#160;(Meteorology)12 noon: Presentation of Frédérique Aït-Touati’s newly released book,&#160;Terra Forma, manuel de cartographies potentielles:http://s-o-c.fr/index.php/object/terraforma/&#160;&#160;