BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T021321Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250411T170000 SUMMARY:Lost in Ideas: Intellectual History before the Guillotine UID:20260408T023220Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-r5qzs TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Wilkins Building\, University College London\, Gower Street\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1E 6BT DESCRIPTION:

Day One: Thursday 11th of April 2025

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Welcome and Registration: \;(10.00-10.15)

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Introductory remarks: (10.15 - 10.30)

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Prof. Angus Gowland (UCL)

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Panel 1: Re-reading the classics (10.30 - 12.00)

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  1. Marta Spina (Warwick) &ndash\; Republicanism and Freedom in Florence: Sallust&rsquo\;s Influence on the Development of Early Renaissance Political Thought
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  2. Lidia Negoi (Independent scholar) &ndash\; Aristotle for the Many: Social and Ethical Ideas in Late Medieval Sermons
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  3. Matthew Haji-Michael (Vienna) &ndash\; Plato's Political Realism
    4. \n
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LUNCH: (12.00 - 13.00)

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Panel 2: Global Chronologies and Christian Formats (13.00 - 14.00)

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  1. Ross Moncrieff (Oxford) &ndash\; The Chinese Noah: Harmonising Chinese and Biblical Chronology in Early Modern Britain and China
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  2. Sofí\;a Williamson-Garcí\;a (Cambridge) &ndash\; Domingo Chimalpahin: Between Epistemologies of Time
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Break (14.00 - 14.30)

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Panel 3: Virtues in a Christian World (14.30 - 16.00)

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  1. Yunru Chen (Cambridge) &ndash\; Augustine&rsquo\;s exchange with Nectarius
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  2. Susie Heywood (KCL) &ndash\; The Virtue of Prudence: forgotten hero of medieval political thought
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  3. Eero Arum (Berkeley) &ndash\; Jean Bodin&rsquo\;s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty\, Natural Law\, and Political Theology
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Break (16.00 - 16.30)

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Keynote lecture: (16.30 - 18.00)

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Dr. Dmitri Levitin (Oxford) - Saving Early Modernity from Modernity: the New Contextualism

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Wine reception: 18.00-19.00

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Day two: Friday\, 11th of April 2025:

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Panel 4: Politics and Artifice (10.30 - 12.00)

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  1. Karl Peeter Valk (Tallinn) &ndash\; The Clock and its Maker: On the Late Medieval Mechanical Turn
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  2. Genevieve E. Caulfield (UCL) &ndash\; Political visions: Reframing Roger Bacon&rsquo\;s and Johannes Kepler&rsquo\;s optics as political thought
    3. \n
  3. James Coghill (Independent scholar) &ndash\; Unruly Beasts and the advance of common law in the 16th century
    4. \n
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Lunch: (12:00 - 13.00)

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Panel 5: Nature before and after the Fall (13.00 - 14.30)

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  1. Lilia M. Ellis (Chicago) &ndash\; Human weakness\, divine love: a theological anthropology of finitude and infinitude in Julian of Norwich
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  2. Valentin Braekman (Lausanne) &ndash\; What if Adam Had Not Sinned? Francisco Suá\;rez on the Foundations of Political Power
    3. \n
  3. Eva-Sophie Mö\;rschel (Erfurt) &ndash\; Towards an early modern approach to privacy: Bodin and private contemplation
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Break: 14.30-14.45

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Panel 6: Tinkering with texts and genres (14.45 - 16.15)

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  1. Robyn MacLeod Stewart (York) &ndash\; The Use of the Eusebian Apparatus in Hiberno-Latin Gospel Texts (c. 700-900): Paratextual and Intertextual Approaches
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  2. Edvald Johnsen (NUST) &ndash\; Phaedrus&rsquo\;s \;Aesop
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  3. Charlotte McCallum (QMUL) &ndash\; Nicholas Machiavel&rsquo\;s Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings (1675): texts\, paratexts\, context
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Break: (16.15 - 16.30)

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Roundtable: (16.30 - 18.00)

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Prof. Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL) - Concluding Remarks

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Prof. George Garnett (Oxford)

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Prof. Valentina Arena (Oxford)

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Dr. Shiru Lim (Leiden)

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