Eastern Resonances 1: Ottoman Empire and Persia, 16th-18th centuries

Contrary to 'the echo' or 'the trace', which both imply an enduring, but fading prolongation of a presence, 'resonance' suggests not only a continuation, but a reinforcement of a sound or image, provoked by a reflection on another surface. Taking from Stephen Greenblatt's definition of 'resonance' as 'the power of the object displayed to reach out beyond its formal boundaries to a larger world, to evoke in the viewer the complex, dynamic cultural forces from which it has emerged' ('Resonance and Wonder', in Learning to Curse, p. 170), this conference aims at studying the moves, shifts, transformations and translations through which the idea of the East resonated in Europe in general, and Britain in particular, from the early modern period to the romantic age.

Calling into question the adversarial nature of Orientalism as defined by Edward Said, our conference will address the deterritorializations and reterritorializations (to borrow the concepts developed by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Odipus) through which the East reshaped itself in the West through its many reflections and reverberations. Our focus will not just be on what was lost and what was gained along the routes of such recuperations, but we also wish to chart in greater detail the routes themselves, the people who crossed them and the motivations underpinning these attempts at reaching, understanding and picturing the East.

The first of our series of two conferences on 'Eastern Resonances', to be held at the University of Montpellier 3 (30 May-1 June 2013), will focus on the Ottoman empire and Persia, while the focus of the second, to be held at the University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (5-7 Dec. 2013), will be on India and the Far East. These geographical frames have been chosen mostly for practical reasons, but in keeping with the subject of 'resonances', contributions which would cross these boundaries or challenge them will also be welcome.

Suggested areas of reflection for the first conference could include:
  1. Texts and their circulation/translation: What were the Arabic, Persian and Turkish texts which resonated in the West in this period? Through what channels did manuscripts and books travel? Why and how did they reach Britain in adapted or translated forms?
  2. Places and their memories: What did travellers look back to in historical and cultural terms as they embarked on their journeys to the East? What images did they bring back with them from their eastern encounters? How did these reverberate as literary and artistic artefacts at the receiving end of the journey?
  3. Actors and intermediaries: Who went East or West, and why did they? Who were their interlocutors or mediators there? Why and how were 'contact zones' created? On what terms was trust granted and collaborative research carried on?
For 'Eastern Resonances 1: Ottoman empire and Persia', a title for the proposed paper should be sent by April 15, 2012 and short proposals in English (250 words) with a brief biographical statement by May 15, 2012 to the conference organisers:
Papers should be 30 minutes in length and may be presented either in French or English. We intend to publish a selected number of papers from the two conferences in a volume of essays on the topic of 'Eastern Resonances'.

Forum for European Philosophy Event | Immortality

Wednesday 30 May, 6.30 – 8pm
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

Stephen Cave, philosopher and writer. He is the author of Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation
John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, LSE. He is the author of The Immortalization Commission: the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

Chair: Simon Glendinning, Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy

Every human culture has claimed some way of defeating death, whether through mummification, reincarnation, or resurrection when the last trumpet sounds. In our age of failed ideologies and empty churches, many now hope science will provide the route to everlasting life. Can it? Should we even want it to? And is the will to live forever, which has so shaped the human story, a blessing or a curse?

Podcasts of most FEP events are available online after the event. They can be accessed at www.philosophy-forum.org

All events are free and open to all without registration
For further information contact Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539
J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk

Forum for European Philosophy
Cowdray House, Room G.05, European Institute
London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
www.philosophy-forum.org

Oxford Forum | After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Public Lecture,  Co-organised with the Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar and the Ruskin School, University of Oxford.

Friday, 25 May, 4.00-5.30 pmMcKenna Room, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College at the University of Chicago

Chair: Joseph Schear, University Lecturer in Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

For more information, contact Dr Joseph Schear: joseph.schear@philosophy.ox.ac.uk,
Dr Roxana Baiasu: Roxana.Baiasu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
or the Forum Coordinator: Dr Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539, J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk

Forum for European Philosophy
www.philosophy-forum.org
www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Invention, Philosophy and Technology in the Seventeenth Century

Below is the schedule for a day conference entitled Invention, Philosophy and Technology in the Seventeenth Century. Attendance is free, but I'd appreciate if you could let me know that you plan to attend ( kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk ). Attached is a conference poster. Please circulate this email.
Wednesday 23rd May 2012

Berrick Saul Building – Treehouse and BS/008
9.15 Registration
9.30 Technology and the mysteries of trade (Treehouse)
  • Ayesha Mukherjee (Exeter), The economy and philosophy of manure in Hugh Platt (title tbc)
  • Paddy Bullard (Kent), Isaac Walton and Joseph Moxon, on technical manuals. (title tbc)
  • Eleanor Decamp (Oxford), [Keep] sharpe Instruments...as neere as you can, ever hidden from the eyes of the Patient’: the visibility of surgical objects in seventeenth-century literature
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Invention, Rhetoric and the rhetoric of invention, Part 1 (Treehouse)
  • Tullia Giersberg (King’s College, London), Cornelis Drebbel’s Perpetuum Mobile and the Contested Meanings of Invention in Ben Jonson’s Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court (1614-15)
  • Raphael Hallett (Leeds), ‘Invention’, ‘Creation’ and Early Modern Laboratory Culture
12.00 Lunch
1.00-1.45 Invention, Rhetoric and the rhetoric of invention, Part 2 (BS/008)
  • Helen Hills (York), ‘'Inventio and invenzione: from saintly relic to art and back in baroque Italy'
  • Adam Ganz (Royal Holloway), “Close, naked, natural" How the Lens changed writing

2.00 Making things and the cost of labour (BS/008)
  • Michael Harrigan (Warwick), Plantation, Labour and Technology in the Early Modern Antilles
  • Katherine Hunt (London Consortium, University of London) , From procedural to miscellany: how to make a firework in the mid-seventeenth century.
  • Cesare Pastorino (Sussex), Francis Bacon and the State Promotion of Innovation: the Early Stuart Patent System

3.30 Coffee
4.00 Getting Dirty in Early Modern England: Mines and Drains (BS/008)
  • Daisy Hildyard (Queen Mary’s), ‘The Workmen could give me very little Account of any thing’: John Locke and Daniel Defoe meet miners.
  • Will Calvert (Cambridge), "Invention, National Power, and the Limits of the Possible in Early Stuart England."
  • Claire Preston (Birmingham), 'Big Dig: the poetics of early-modern drainage'.

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This symposium will look the history of invention, technology and philosophy
in the early modern era, the ways in which material life changed in the
period. It will consider how the period constituted the relationships
between science, philosophy and craft, or between trade and society. Topics
might include:

Public works and the provision of society - drainage, water, sewers, food,
mining, weapons, surgical instruments, trade and trade-guilds; the
regulation of the city; is 'capitalism' a helpful category for thinking the
early modern era?; what was the relationship between science and society?;
the early modern 'expert'; innovation and tradition; literature and
invention; automata and the early modern machine.

Symposium - May 23rd 2012

CREMS - University of York.

Speakers include: Claire Preston (Birmingham), Ayesha Mukherjee (Exeter)

Contact Kevin Killeen - kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk

This symposium is part of the entirely digressive Thomas Browne Seminar,
whose designs for bullets made no impact whatsoever on the course of the
civil war.

http://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/browne/
http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/

Dr Kevin Killeen
Department of English and Related Literatures
University of York
Heslington, York
YO10 5DD

Forum for European Philosophy Event | Singing Neanderthals? The Evolution of Music and Language

Tuesday 22 May, 6.30-8.00pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Steven Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Reading. He is the author of The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

Chair: Kristina Musholt, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy

The relationship between music and language has been discussed by philosophers ever since Giambattista Vico in the 17th century, and probably before. Today many disciplines contribute to this debate, notably neuroscience and comparative ethology. This lecture will bring a perspective from archaeology, interpreting the artefacts and fossils of our extinct stone-age ancestors and relatives. It will find that they may have been singing long before they were speaking.

Podcasts of most FEP events are available online after the event. They can be accessed at www.philosophy-forum.org

All events are free and open to all without registration
For further information contact Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539
J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk

Forum for European Philosophy
Cowdray House, Room G.05, European Institute
London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
www.philosophy-forum.org

Vacancy: Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, University of Sussex

Lecturer in Medieval English Literature Ref 642
School of English

Lecturer in Medieval English Literature
Salary range for Lecturer A: starting at £30,122 and rising to £35,938 per annum
Salary range for Lecturer B: starting at £37,012 and rising to £44,166 per annum
Closing date for applications: 11 June 2012
Expected start date:1st September 2012
Description

The School of English at the University of Sussex wishes to appoint a lecturer in Medieval English Literature (1300-1500) from 1st September 2012 or by arrangement.

The successful candidate will possess a completed doctorate in English or a related subject and have teaching experience at least to undergraduate level. You will possess high quality research publications that demonstrate your ability to achieve international distinction in your specialist area. The successful candidate will contribute teaching into a wide range of courses on the BA English Literature and develop research-led courses in your particular special field. You will also contribute teaching in your research area to one of the School’s MAs and participate in Sussex’s vibrant research culture.

This new post addresses the School’s desire to restore medieval literature to its research and teaching profile. We welcome applicants with specialisms in any area within the field of late Medieval Studies. An ability to develop our teaching of Chaucer and/or Medieval Drama and/or the History of the Language is welcome. As well as demonstrating a research potential to become a leader in your field, you will possess a strong commitment to teaching and innovation in pedagogy. English recruits high quality undergraduates – normal A level entry requirement AAA – and is favourably ranked by good university guides: The Guardian 2012 guide places English 8th in the UK, The Complete University Guide 2011-12, places English 11th, while The Sunday Times University Guide places English 13th. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 95 per cent of the School’s research was rated as recognised internationally excellent or higher.

For further information please contact Prof Thomas Healy, Head of School, (t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk)


A full job description and details of how to apply are athttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/642

Vacancy: Lecturer in English Literature 1500-1700, University of Sussex

Lecturer in English Literature 1500-1700 Ref 643
School of English | Permanent, full time

Salary range for Lecturer A: starting at £30,122 and rising to £35,938 per annum
Salary range for Lecturer B: starting at £37,012 and rising to £44,166 per annum
Closing date for applications: 11 June 2012
Expected start date: 1st September 2012 or by arrangement

Description

The School of English at the University of Sussex wishes to appoint a lecturer in one or more areas of early modern English Literature (1500-1700) from 1st September 2012 or by arrangement.

The successful candidate will possess a completed doctorate in English or a related subject and have teaching experience at least to undergraduate level. You will possess high quality research publications that demonstrate your ability to achieve international distinction in your specialist area. The successful candidate will contribute teaching into a wide range of courses on the BA English Literature and develop research-led courses in your particular special field. You will also contribute teaching in your research area to one of the School’s MAs, notably the MA in Early Modern Literature and Culture, and participate in Sussex’s vibrant research culture, notably in the Centre for Early Modern Studies.

The School enjoys a particularly strong reputation in early modern studies, co-ordinated through the Centre for Early Modern Studies which is based in English and led by Prof Andrew Hadfield, Dr Matthew Dimmock and Dr Margaret Healy. As well as regular speakers, symposia, and hosting conferences, the Centre has recently started a new project on Early Modern Sussex with a post-doctoral appointment. The Centre has connections with Petworth House and co-hosts an AHRC funded collaborative doctorate with the National Trust on a cache of 144 early modern play quartos acquired by the Earls of Northumberland in the 17th century. The School of English also has a close connection with London’s Globe Theatre.

This post addresses the School’s desire to maintain its early modern strengths following the appointment of Prof Brian Cummings to an Anniversary Chair at the University of York. We welcome applicants with specialisms in any area within the field – from early Tudor writing to the Restoration. As well as demonstrating a research potential to become a leader in your field, you will possess a strong commitment to teaching and innovation in pedagogy. English recruits high quality undergraduates – normal A level entry requirement AAA – and is favourably ranked by good university guides: The Guardian 2012 guide places English 8th in the UK, The Complete University Guide 2011-12, places English 11th, while The Sunday Times University Guide places English 13th. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 95 per cent of the School’s research was rated as recognised internationally excellent or higher.

For further information please contact Prof Thomas Healy, Head of School, (t.f.healy@sussex.ac.uk)

Further particulars and how to apply athttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/643


Religious Lives: Catholic Culture in the Early Modern World

Friday 18–Saturday 19 May 2012

St Edmund Hall and Queen’s College Chapel, Oxford

Written, spoken, painted, or performed, the life stories of Catholic men and women – particularly members of religious orders – dominated the culture of early modern Catholicism. This conference will address the growing body of scholarship devoted to understanding biographies and auto-biographies as they appeared in various forms within religious communities and Catholic society at large. These include institutional chronicles, canonization documents, festive decorations, images and pictorial cycles, and musical pieces, in addition to auto/biographical texts and spiritual testimonies – to name only a few. Many such narratives remained amongst a small audience, whilst others crossed national boundaries and were introduced in new, altered or translated forms. The conference will explore how life narratives were presented, interpreted and used to express confessional viewpoints and the corporate identities of religious orders. We seek to bring scholars from the disciplines of literature, history, theology, art history and music into conversation about the forms and functions of religious life stories in Asian, African, European and new world contexts.

The conference will include a period performance of Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier’s biographical oratorio ‘S. Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi’ by Oxford Baroque. The oratorio premiered at the Palazzo Pamphili, Rome in 1687. This piece will be placed in its historical context, opening discussion on the modes and purposes of articulating Catholic lives.

For further details of the conference and oratorio, and to reserve a place, please visit our website: http://religiouslives.wordpress.com/

Call for papers:

We would particularly like to encourage papers from graduates in the areas of art history and music and/or focusing on Asia or the new world. Papers addressing British, Irish or Continental subjects or from the disciplines of history, literature, and theology are also most welcome. Please email proposals of no more than 300 words to religiouslives@gmail.com by 10 April 2012. A number of graduate bursaries are available to fund graduate speakers thanks to the generosity of the Society for Renaissance Studies.
  • What, if anything, was distinctive to the genres of biography and auto-biography in the post-Reformation period?
  • How hagiographical were representations of religious lives?
  • How collaborative was the process of constructing a life
  • To what extent were auto/biographical lives imitative of lives in the same media or other media?
  • In what ways were accounts of lives put to polemical uses?
  • How were the identities of religious orders and their members expressed in or influenced by accounts of exemplary lives?
  • How were life stories transmitted across national lines and how were they read/consumed/witnessed within different contexts?

With the generous support of the Society for Renaissance Studies:http://www.rensoc.org.uk/


Forum for European Philosophy Event | Dialogue On Guilt

Tuesday 8 May, 6.30 – 8pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE

Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London

Edward Harcourt, University Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble College

Chair: Kristina Musholt, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy

Is guilt one emotion or many? In exploring this question, topics addressed will include the relationship between different kinds of guilt (e.g. moral guilt, guilt at breaking a diet, survivor guilt and collective guilt); the experience of guilt in relation to cultural and religious background; and the place of guilt in ‘developed’ and ‘primitive’ moral consciousness.

Podcasts of most FEP events are available online after the event. They can be accessed at www.philosophy-forum.org

All events are free and open to all without registration
For further information contact Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539
J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk

Forum for European Philosophy
Cowdray House, Room G.05, European Institute
London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
www.philosophy-forum.org

Call for Papers: Ars et Medicina symposium

7-8. May 2012, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Italy

From antiquity to the present, medical science and art have been inextricably entwined. The first anatomical theories in Ancient Greece developed in conjunction with and parallel to artistic theories about human proportions. From the 16th c. artists practiced dissection in order to improve their depictions of human form, and their drawings in anatomical atlases were used to educate generations of medical professionals. The Charcot school in Paris studies art works in an attempt to improve their understanding of psychological phenomena like hysteria. Sigmund Freud ´s psychological theories were enriched by his study of literature, and his theories inspired the arts of literature and film. The theory and practice of connoisseurship is based on principles borrowed from medical science. Contemporary artists collaborate with medical scientists, and medical professionals still find inspiration for new medical techniques and practices in art. The lectures in this symposium will necessarily be only a small selection of in-depth case studies illustrating the varied relationships between art and medicine.

The symposium lectures will be structured in sessions composed of lectures related to each other by topic and/or disciplinary perspective. Both medical scientists with interests in the arts, and scholars of the arts with interests in science and medicine are encouraged to participate. One goal of the symposium is to provoke all participants to confront the challenge of engaging in discussion of how medical science and the humanities enrich and inspire each other.

We hope that the participants will attempt to transcend disciplinary borders and challenge pre-existing interpretations of the relationship between medical theory, practice and artistic expression.

All lectures will be published as videopodcasts. Selected papers will be included in a subsequent edited digital book or journal volume devoted to the symposium topic. The symposium papers should be 20 minutes (ca. 10 double-spaced pages) and in English.

Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of 150-200 words to Einar Petterson einarp@ifikk.uio.no by March 15, 2012.

Participants will be notified by March 25, 2012.

Organizers:
Einar Petterson, Professor of Art History, University of Oslo, Norway
Knut Kvernebo, MD, PhD, FRCS, Professor of Cadio-Thoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hosptial, Ullevaal

The symposium (reception, lunches and a symposium dinner) is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway.

Professor dr.philos. Einar Petterson
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
University of Oslo
Norway
einarp@ifikk.uio.no


Book Launch, Colin Howson, 'Objecting to God' (CUP)

I am pleased to announce that Colin Howson, an emeritus professor of the
LSE department of philosophy, will do a talk about his latest book. You
are all cordially invited.

Regards,

Luc Bovens
Professor
Head of Department
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE

Friday, May 4 in T206 or LAK206 from 4 to 5:30, followed by a reception
on the first floor of the Lakatos Building


Objecting to God (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

The growth of science and a correspondingly scientific way of looking at
evidence have for the last three centuries slowly been gaining ground
over religious explanations of the cosmos and mankind's place in it.
However, not only is secularism now under renewed attack from religious
fundamentalism, but it has also been widely claimed that the scientific
evidence itself points strongly to a universe deliberately fine-tuned
for life to evolve in it. In addition, certain aspects of human life,
like consciousness and the ability to recognise the existence of
universal moral standards, seem completely resistant to evolutionary
explanation. In this book Colin Howson analyses in detail the evidence
which is claimed to support belief in God's existence and argues that
the claim is not well-founded. Moreover, there is very compelling
evidence that an all-powerful, all-knowing God not only does not exist
but cannot exist, a conclusion both surprising and provocative.


A Performance History of Plays Written By Early Modern Women (Lumley – Behn)

While plays written by women are now part of the scholarly canon, the irregular performances or readings that do take place are mainly private events in academic environments. Gathering information on these ‘irregular’ performances requires intensive searching that often produces inadequate data because there is an acute lack of stage and performance history of the plays written by early women dramatists. From the small amount of material we have there can be no doubt that plays by early women dramatists are performable in both private and public spaces, but there can be no tradition of performance, no chance of building upon earlier productions, if no stage history exists. Just as the plays themselves became lost or muted after their composition, so the lack of scholarly projects based on the performance history of early women’s dramatic writing prevents the development of a repository of previous production experience and, as such, hinders future stagings. If we cannot prove that these plays were performable, how can we ensure that in the future they will be performed?

This summer I will begin a three-year project that aims to gather information about the performance of Early Modern women’s plays. If you have any information I would be really grateful to have:

Any paper materials or recordings about past, present or future productions
If you are planning a production, could you let me know with the possibility of filming it?
If you have published anything that might be relevant – and this includes performance possibilities from the time of the play’s composition to today – can you give me link ?
If you have worked on, acted in or been a spectator of any performance would you be prepared to be interviewed about your experience?

Thank you for your help and I very much look forward to hearing from you

Marion Wynne-Davies
m.wynne-davies@surrey.ac.uk

Visiting Fellowship in Strasbourg

The Research Group EA 2325 SEARCH "Savoirs dans l'Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire," University of Strasbourg (France), offers a Visiting Fellowship in the Humanities for the second year running.

Applications for a period of six months (January to June 2013) are now invited from scholars wishing to pursue research in any of the areas covered by the Group and engage in active participation in the Group's activities.

EA 2325 SEARCH has particular strengths in the following areas:

o Literature, 16th to 18th centuries

o Celtic studies

o Canadian studies

o Nabokov and contemporary American literature

o Contemporary American politics and culture

o India

Two scholarly societies are hosted by the University of Strasbourg and run by members of EA2325: "Société d'Études Canadiennes" and "Société Française Nabokov." Strasbourg has also been selected to coordinate research on 16th-18th centuries in the English-speaking world for the East of France.

EA2325 is made up of about forty professors, lecturers and doctoral students, who contribute to the Group's main research topic. As of September 2012 the theme of interest is "Contacts, frictions, clashes." EA2325 organizes seminars and conferences throughout the year, and is involved in fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue with other Research Groups in the University: modern languages, French literature, history, theology. The Visiting Fellow will be encouraged to take part in these activities and will be invited to present a paper at one of our seminars.

The Group has strong ties with scholars from the Universities of Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Germany), Haute-Alsace-Mulhouse (France) within the EUCOR-English network. The applicant will have the opportunity to present a paper in the EUCOR seminars and will have free access to the libraries of the four institutions.

The Fellowship is conceived as an opportunity to combine individual and self-directed research and engagement with the research conducted in the Group. Although the Fellowship does not imply full-time residence in Strasbourg, it would be of particular interest to scholars on leave from their home institutions, so as best to benefit from the city's rich cultural life and long-standing University tradition.

A CV and a cover letter stating how the applicant's project would fit in with the Group's activities should be sent to Prof. Jean-Jacques Chardin (chardin@unistra.fr) and Prof. Anne Bandry-Scubbi (bandry@unistra.fr) by September 15, 2012.

http://search.unistra.fr

Anne BANDRY Scubbi
Professeur des universités
Tél : +33 (0)3 68 85 67 13
Tél 2 : +33 (0)3 68 85 65 74
Fax : +33 (0)3 68 85 65 73
bandry@unistra.fr

EA 2325 SEARCH http://search.unistra.fr

Bureau 4220
Département d'études anglaises et nord-américaines

22 rue Descartes
F - 67084 Strasbourg
http://www.departement-anglais.unistra.fr


Literature, Ideas & Society: Seminar Programme 2011-2012

All sessions held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB.
Admission free, no need to book. Reception follows each session.

Session 3: Philosophy and Narrative - Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 5.15
Letizia Panizza (RHUL), Telling the Truth while Telling Lies: Ariosto's Debt to Lucian's Vera Historia
Maria Rosa Antognazza (KCL), Interpretive Guidelines for an Intellectual Biography of Leibniz