Category Archives: Conferences and Workshops

Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance 24-26 April 2014, Palacký University v Olomouc The Center for Renaissance Texts at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic) will hold an international conference on the philosophy of Francesco Patrizi (Petriš, Petrić; 1529-1597) in April this year. For further information, please contact Tomáš Nejeschleba.  

Early Modern Medicine of the Mind 30-31 May 2014, Warburg Institute, London Speakers will include: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Università di Parma), Fabrizio Bigotti (Warburg Institute), Davide Cellamare (Radboud University Nijmegen), Annalisa Ceron (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Claire Crignon (Paris Sorbonne), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Angus Gowland (UCL), Rina Knoeff (University of […]

Transforming the Early Modern Republic of Letters: Literature, Learning, Logic, Books. A Conference in Honour of Ian Maclean 31 March – 2 April 2014, All Souls College and Maison Française, Oxford Speakers: Irena Backus, Chimene Bateman, Ann Blair, Warren Boutcher, Robin Briggs, Colin Burrow, Terence Cave, Tim Chesters, Nicholas Cronk, Richard Cooper, Nicholas Davidson, Marie-Luce Demonet, Ingrid […]

‘A great variety of admirable discoverys’: Newton’s Principia in the Age of Enlightenment 11-13 December 2013, The Royal Society, London This conference commemorates the 300th anniversary of the second edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica (1713), one of the key texts in the history of science. This was no hasty redrafting of the first edition (1687), […]

Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas 7-8 March 2014, Trinity College, Cambridge Announcing the forthcoming Symposium at Trinity College, Cambridge: Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions between Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art and architecture; […]

Conference: Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’s ‘Summa Theologiae’ – 16th to 18th Century 17-19 October 2013, Universidade do Porto The Summa Theologiae is one of the classical works of the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, the Summa marked the teaching and the making of theology from […]

Conference: The Enlightenment and the Development of Philosophical Anthropology 4-6 November 2013, University of Sydney The conference focuses on the development of various forms of anthropology in the second half of the eighteenth century, with a special focus on philosophical anthropology, as a distinct discipline that competed with metaphysics, both in scope and aim. The birth of philosophical anthropology in […]

Conference: Early Modern Medicine of the Mind 30-31 May 2014, The Warburg Institute The idea of the cure and care of the soul, seen as parallel or complementary to the cure and care of the body, became increasingly popular in the early modern period, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It is certainly not […]

Conference: Printing Mathematics in the Early Modern World 16-17 December 2013, All Souls College, Oxford The early modern period saw the printing, in large numbers, of mathematical tables, primers, textbooks and practical manuals, as well as the incorporation of mathematical notation into a wide range of works on other subjects. Algebraic notation, diagrams and even printed […]