08/21/2025

ISHR mail: The Imagination Research Network

Dear ISHR member:

A somewhat new enterprise has come to our attention, and it may tickle your fancy.* It’s called The Imagination Research Network, and it’s run out of Queen Mary University of London.

The Network currently has two events planned for the coming year: on 8 October 2025, it will host a symposium on Elizabeth Swann's Science as Child's Play in Seventeenth Century England and on 25 February 2026 on Raphaële Garrod's François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention. The Network will also be planning their Imagination Days 3 in May 2026.

Those who would like to join the Network's mailing list should email Jolanta Stanulionyte. The Network very much welcomes historians of rhetoric, especially given how important that history is to the history of imagination. 

The ISHR leadership

* We are not suggesting “fancy” and “imagination” are the same. We know our history.