Societas Magica: International eColloquium, Thomas Vaughan's Alchemy and the Reform of Ritual Magic in Seventeenth-Century England

Lauren Kassell (Cambridge University)

AGR 2D71, 1:00pm Thursday, February 9 (7 pm GMT)
(NOTA BENE: The announced time is local time in Cambridge, UK.)

At present we have been able to establish nodes in electronic seminar rooms in Waterloo, Saskatoon, Cambridge, and Paris. For those who wish to establish a node your own institution, we plan to expand in the future, once we have the technical expertise. 

In the meantime, those who wish to participate you can still do so independently by going to the following URL, downloading the software, and logging on on the day of the talk.

Software Download

However you are able to join us, I look forward to your participation in what will unquestionably be a valuable and rewarding talk.

Frank Klaassen
frank.klaassen@usask.ca

The Uses of Space In Early Modern History 1500-1850, Seminar Series


International History Department, LSE

The study of space and place is an increasingly important research-field in the humanities and social sciences. This series explores how spatial ideas and approaches can be used to understand the societies, cultures and mentalities of the past. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines will reflect on the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history; and how particular spaces were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods

Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock p.stock@lse.ac.uk
Place: LSE New Academic Building, room 2.14 Time: 18.00 All welcome

9 February 2012: Prof Michael Heffernan (Nottingham) 'Disciplining Space: Geography and Cartography in the Paris Academy of Sciences 1666-1793'

The Natural Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: its context and developments

Organised by Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Noel Malcolm (All Souls College) and Martine Pércharman (CNRS-MFO).

The speakers will be: Philip Beeley, Stephen Clucas, Daniel Garber, Franco Giudice, Francesca Giuliano, John Henry, Douglas jesseph, Cees Leijenhorst, Agostino Lupoli, Timothy Raylor and Elaine Stroud.

The sessions will be chaired by Noel Malcolm, Kinch Hoekstra, Luc Borot, Catherine Wilson, Daniel Garber and Martine Pécharman.

The Natural Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Context and Development

Date: Friday 03 Feb 2012 (All day) to Saturday 04 Feb 2012 (All day)
Place: Friday: MFO - Saturday: All Souls College
Research programme: Modernities

Friday 3 February, Maison Française d’Oxford

Morning Session
Chair: Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford)

10.30-11.30 Timothy Raylor (Carleton College, Northfield)
Hobbes's Method of Composition and its Implications

11.30-12.30 Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, London)
Defining the Terms of Motion in Hobbes's Natural philosophy

Afternoon Session I
Chair: Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)

14.00-15.00 John Henry (University of Edinburgh)
Galileo, Hobbes, and the Physics of Simple Circular Motion

15.00-16.00 Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida)
Hobbes on the Foundations of Natural Philosophy

Afternoon Session II
Chair: Luc Borot (MFO)

16.30-18.00 Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Hobbes, Descartes, and Laws of Nature

Francesca Giuliano (Università del Salento)
Response to Dan Garber

Saturday 4 February, All Souls College

Morning Session I
Chair: Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)

9.30-10.30 Franco Giudice (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
The Place of Optics in Hobbes's Natural Philosophy

10.30-11.30 Elaine Stroud (University of Wisconsin)
Lines of Vision: A Construction Integrating Physics, Geometry, and Psychology

Morning Session II
Chair : Daniel Garber ( Princeton University)

11.45-12.45 Philip Beeley (Linacre College, Oxford)
Experimentarian Philosophers. Hobbes's Writings on Pneumatics and their Reception by Boyle and Wallis

Afternoon Session
Chair: Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)

14.00-15.00 Agostino Lupoli (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Hobbes’s Concept of Accident

15.00-16.00 Cees Leijenhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Causality and Representation in Hobbes's De Corpore


Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Intellectual History: ‘Scientific and Other Mentalities in Early Modern Europe'

Convenors: Prof. Maclean and Dr Malcolm; All Souls (Hovenden Room), Wednesdays 5.00 p.m.

1 Feb: Prof. Daniel Garber (Princeton): ‘Ghosts: More, Glanvill and the Experimental Philosophy’

The Social History of Knowledge: Encylopédie to Wikipedia

The Institute of Historical Research, and the University of Notre Dame present a series of seminars in GLOBAL HISTORY at the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame, 1 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG (off Pall Mall East, west of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery) on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m.

Registration essential; please email Charlotte Parkyn (cparkyn@nd.edu).
Forthcoming Programme for 2012

1st February: Peter Burke (Cambridge) with Steve Fuller (Warwick) and Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame) in a panel on Professor Burke´s The Social History of Knowledge: Encylopédie to Wikipedia (There will be a reception after the seminar. )

Professor Burke is one of the most influential and admired living historians. He joins the Auguste Comte Professor at Warwick University, whose books include Science vs Religion and New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies.

The University of Notre Dame invites seminar-goers to wine at or after the seminars. Seminar-goers who would like to dine with the speaker should send a cheque for £40 to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, UND, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG at least a fortnight in advance. Men wear suit and tie to the dinner parties and women are kindly asked to dress accordingly. Steering group: William Clarence-Smith (SOAS), Surekha Davies (Birkbeck), Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame), Geoffrey Hosking (SEES, UCL). N.B: Seminar-goers should register with cparkyn@nd.edu. Enquiries to FELIPE.FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO@nd.edu.

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