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Final Programme Now Available: The Importance of Learning

The final programme for the 2013 conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective, is now available to download on the conference webpage.

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Quest of the Heart: an International Conference on Affective Knowledge

Quest of the Heart: an International Conference on Affective Knowledge 2-3 June 2013. The conference will be held in room B18 (basement) of Birkbeck College, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington square). Entrance is free and all are welcome. Please contact Minna Koivuniemi for more information. Speakers: Tim Riggs, “Proclus on demonic mediation”; Stephen Clucas, “Affective states in the […]

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EMPHASIS Seminar: 18 May 2013

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 18 May 2013 in Room 261 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speaker: Eric Jorink (Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis): ‘Johannes Swammerdam, Nicolaus Steno and Spinoza’s Deus sive natura’. The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early […]

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4th Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science

Experiments and the Arts of Discovery in Early Modern Europe 12-14 May 2013 Center for the Logic, History and the Philosophy of Science. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest Program: Sunday, May 12, 2013 Chair: Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest) 09:30-10:30    Peter Anstey (Sydney), Experimental natural history (keynote lecture) 10:30-11:00    Coffee Break 11:00-12.00    Sergius Kodera (Vienna), The […]

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EMPHASIS Seminar: 4 May 2013

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 4 May 2013 in Room 104 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speaker: Ann Thompson (University of Paris 8): ‘Living matter and early Enlightenment materialism’. The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the […]

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Renaissance Philosophy Workshop: 14 June 2013

Renaissance Philosophy Workshop Room 243, Senate House, London 10.30-5.00 Friday 14 June 2013 Renaissance philosophy is a fascinating yet neglected period in the history of philosophy. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the rise of Humanism and the rediscovery of ancient texts led to new ways of doing philosophy. At the same time the period […]

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Literature, Ideas & Society Seminar: 8 May 2013

The next session of the 2012-2013 Literature, Ideas & Society seminar, Animal Lives – Human Fears, will take place at the Warburg Institute in London on Wednesday 8 May at 17.15. The speakers will be Robert Mills (University College London): ‘The Sex Lives of Animals: A Medieval Perspective’; and Cecilia Muratori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): ‘The Fly’s Happy Life: […]

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EMPHASIS Seminar: 6 April 2013 Postponed

The next EMPHASIS seminar, due to take place on 6 April 2013, has been postponed. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speaker: Eric Jorink (Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis): ‘Johannes Swammerdam, Nicolaus Steno and Spinoza’s Deus sive natura’. The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a […]

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EMPHASIS Seminar: 9 March 2013

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 9 March 2013 in Room 104 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speaker: Thibaut Maus de Rolley (University College, London): ‘Putting the Devil on the Map: Demonology and Cosmography in the Renaissance’. The purpose […]

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CFP: Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge

Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science A one-day colloquium at the Warburg Institute, London. Friday 28 June, 2013. Keynote speaker: Sven Dupré (Freie Universität Berlin). Organized by Sietske Fransen (Warburg Institute) and Niall Hodson (Durham University) in collaboration with Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute), Eric Jorink (Huygens ING), and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute). This […]

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