CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700

A Postgraduate Conference at the University of Sussex

Plenary speakers: Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke, University of Cambridge); Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews); Christopher Tilmouth (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

The Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies (CEMMS: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cemms/) at the University of Sussex is pleased to announce its forthcoming Postgraduate Conference on the theme of ‘Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700’, which will take place on the 14th-16th July 2015.

This conference will explore the relationship between early modern literature and philosophical thought, theories and issues. How philosophical was literature in this period? Did literature and philosophy work in symbiosis or discordantly? How are philosophical ideas approached in early modern literary texts? In what ways could literature function to promote or critique philosophical ideas? What was the role of commercial literature in disseminating philosophical thought? How did circulation of courtly literature influence contemporary political and philosophical thinking? What was the role of different textual mediums (such as codices, pamphlets or newsbooks) in disseminating philosophical ideas? How were philosophical theories engaged with in poetry, prose or drama? Did the genre or medium matter?

We welcome abstracts of 200-300 words for individual papers of 20 minutes or of 600 words for panels of three related papers. These could be on topics including but not limited to:

Aristotelianism

Atheism

Augustinism

Averroism

Casuistry

Epicurianism

Equivocation

Ethics/ Moral philosophy

Figures of Space

Humanism

Logic

Machiavellianism

Philosophy of Nature

Philosophy of Religion

Platonism/Neo-Platonism

Political philosophy

Rationalism

Scepticism

Scholasticism

Stoicism

Thomism

Toleration


Please submit your abstract along with your institution, paper title and a brief biography to litphilconference@sussex.ac.uk by 16th February 2015.

Philosophy’s Problem with Religion: The Interplay of Faith and Reason from Scholasticism to Enlightenment

British Academy Early Career Regional Event, Thursday, 4 September 2014
German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ

9:30 am
Welcome

9:45 am
Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute London): Faith and Reason in Thirteenth-Century Quodlibeta

10:30 am
Coffee break

11:00 am
Kantik Ghosh (Oxford): Religio-Intellectual History in Late-Medieval England: Possible Directions of Research

11:45pm

Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute): Christian Humanism, Platonism and Concordism: New Approaches to the Double Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:45 pm

Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute): Averroes’s Destructio destructionum in the Renaissance

2:30 pm
Roberta Giubilini (Warburg Institute): ‘Favello sempre secondo i filosofi’: The Incompatibility of Philosophical and Theological Speculation in Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565)

3:15 pm
Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London): The Place of Theology in Leibniz’s Thought

4:00 pm
Coffee break

4:30 pm
Neil Tarrant (Imperial College): Censoring Medical Astrology in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy: Defining Astral Knowledge in an Augustinian Age

5:15 pm
Conclusion

Attendance is free, but please register with Cornelia Linde (linde@ghil.ac.uk) as seats are limited.