Telling a Different Story: Non-Linear Narratives in Early Modern History

Telling a Different Story: Non-Linear Narratives in Early Modern History

19 March 2020 (ICUB-Bucharest, Strada Dimitrie Brandza, 1)                                                                                       

09:00-09:30 – Introduction

09:30-10:30 – Morning Lecture

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen University), What’s it all about? Challenges for changing the narratives in the history of early modern philosophy

Coffee break

11:00-12:30 – Toe the Line

Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest University), Linearity contextualized: ancients, moderns and the self-reflexive narrative

Dana Jalobeanu (ICUB Bucharest), Emblems as magic tools and heuristic devices: Bruno, Bacon and Culianu. An exercise on perspectival contextualism

Daniel Neumann (Alpen Adria University, Klagenfurt), The ‘bizarre’ side of reason: Descartes’ and Spinoza’s thinking mechanisms and their reception

Lunch

14:00-15:30 – Taxing Questions

Matthias Roick (Göttingen University), Short-Circuiting Early Modern Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Psychology

Giorgio Lizzul (Warwick), Understanding Fiscality and the Past: The Use of Non-Linear Historical Narratives in Early Modern Italian Historiography

Ioana Manea (Göttingen University), Writing about the “Revolutions” of the Mughal Empire: Bernier’s History at Odds with the 17th Century “Great Histories”

Coffee break

16:00-17:00 – Brains and Skulls

Timo Kaitaro (Helsinki University), Telling a different story on the origin of ideas: the role of language and culture in human cognition

Veronica Lazar (Cluj University), Arrested developments in the Anthropology of the Enlightenment

17:00-18:00 – Evening Lecture

Dominique Brancher (Basel University), Communications. The exchange between humans, animals and plants in Early Modern Europe

20 March 2020 (ICUB-Bucharest, Strada Dimitrie Brandza, 1)

09:30-10:30 – Morning Lecture

Francesco Barreca (Museo Galileo, Firenze), A Non-Linear Approach to Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motions

Coffee break

11:00-12:30 – Science Divine

Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter (HSE, Moscow), Beyond Mechanism and Vitalism: God and Life in the Early Modern Period

Aaron Spink (Columbus), Early Cartesians, Ethics, and the Role of Teleology

Giuliano Gasparri (Università di Enna), Eclecticism in Early Modern Philosophy. Studies on the teaching of the Piarist fathers in the first half of the 18th century

Lunch

14:00-15:00 – Afternoon Lecture

Christiane Frey (HU, Berlin), In the Meantime: On Kings, Stars, and Constellations

15.00-15.30 – Tragedy (Continued)!

Raz Chen-Morris (Jerusalem), The scientific revolution as a Trauerspiel

Coffee break

16:00-17:00 – Plant It!

María M. Carrión (Emory University, Atlanta), Pilgrimage, or The Broken Paths of History in 16th -Century Dried Gardens

Fabrizio Baldassarri (ICUB Bucharest), Like a Plant in Plant: the Anatomy of the Vegetative Soul as a Non-Linear Case-Study