Models of Intellectual History

Tuesday 17th April

12:00-1:15

Welcome from Dr Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

Panel 1: Morality and Nature in the early Enlightenment
Organiser/Chair: Richard Serjeantson (Cambrdige/California Institute of Technology)

> Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh):
"Pufendorf and Locke on Moral Entities"
> Richard Serjeantson (California Institute of Technology):
"The Origins of the Enlightenment Science of Human Nature"

> Ben Dorfman (Aalborg University):
"Crisis, Words and Memory: Occasions for a Century of Phenomenological Histories of Ideas"
> Agnieszka Steczowicz (Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London):
" New Genres in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Paradox"
> William E. Duvall (Willamette University, Salem, Oregon):
"The Dominated Intellectual: Strategies and Tactics"
> Frédérique Aït-touati (Université de la Sorbonne/Trinity College, Cambridge):
"The Uses of Narrative Genres in Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Writing"

Plenary Lecture
> Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney):
"Physico-theology and the construction of a new world picture, 1680-1700"

Reception – Launch of Intellectual History Review

Wednesday 18th April

Panel 1: Twentieth-Century French Historiography of Early Modern Life Science
Organiser/Chair: Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University)

> Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania):
“Life Sciences Interrupted? The Historiographical Study of the Early Modern Doctrine of Pre-existence”
> Justin E. H. Smith (Concordia University):
“Was there ‘Life’ in the 17th Century? Foucault and the Limits of Historical Ontology”
> Charles T. Wolfe (University of Sydney):
“The Return of Vitalism in Post-War France: Metabiology in Canguilhem, Simondon and Roger”

Panel 2: Historiography 2
Chair: Constance Blackwell (ISIH)

> Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig):
"Writing Intellectual History in the biographical Mode – Dictionaries of Scientific Biography"
> Siep Stuurman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam):
"Intellectual History as Global History"
> Howard Hotson (St. Anne's College Oxford):
"Intellectual geography: territorial fragmentation and intellectual activity in the Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806"

1:00-3:00

Panel 1: Re-Modelling Intellectual History: Intellectual History Meets Historical Epistemology: A
Organiser: Sandra Pott (King’s College, London)
Chair: Ulrich Schneider (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig)

> Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Freie Universität Berlin):
"Was ist wahr an der Hermeneutik?/What is true in hermeneutics?"
> Sandra Pott (King’s College London):
"Competition. A popular concept, its forgotten histories and its analytical value"
> Mariana Saad (Sussex and Centre François Viète, Nantes):
"When language, philosophy and politics meet science"

> Franz Leander Fillafer (Cambridge/Göttingen):
"How not to write the history of the Austrian Enlightenment: Theoretical and methodical predicaments"
> Anna Seregina (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow):
"Changing the canon? Catholics and the history of political ideas."
> Derya Gurses Tarbuck (University of Mersin, Turkey):
"Nine Muses of Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century: New approaches to Enlightenment Sociabilities"
> Carolina Armenteros (University of Cambridge):
"Education versus Instruction: National Moral Transformation and the Struggle between Rousseauians and Voltaireans during the French Revolution, 1790-1795"

> Antti Tahvanainen (University of Helsinki):
"Interest theory and rhetoric in the political writings of Marchamont Nedham and James Harrington"
> Ann T. Orlando (Weston Jesuit School of Theology):
"Pierre Gassendi and the Void: An example of the use of intellectual history to support seventeenth century physics"
> Marco Sgarbi (Università di Verona):
"History of Problems and the Future of Intellectual History"

3:00-3:30

Panel 1: Re-Modelling Intellectual History: Intellectual History Meets Historical Epistemology: B
Organiser/Chair: Sandra Pott (King’s College, London)

> Carlos Spoerhase (Humboldt Universität Berlin):
"The Concept of Precursorship in Intellectual History"
> Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham):
"Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy Again"

Panel 2: Philosophy and its History
Organiser/Chair: Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)

> Joanne Waugh (University of South Florida):
“ Philosophia and historie”
> Andrea Falcon (Concordia University):
“Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition in Antiquity.”
> Roger Ariew (University of South Florida):
“René Descartes and Intellectual History: Theory versus Practice”
> Douglas Jesseph (North Carolina State University):
“Hobbes, History, and Scientia”

Panel 3: Magic and Intellectual History
Organiser/Chair: Peter Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London)

> Peter Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London):
" Magia nova, renata, seu reformata?"
> Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London):
"Is there a Western Esoteric Tradition?"
> Lauren Kassell (HPS, University of Cambridge):
" Thomas Vaughan's reformed ritual magic"
> Guido Giglioni (Warburg, University of London):
"Belief, Disbelief and Suspension of Disbelief in Early-Modern and Modern Attitudes towards Magic"

Thursday 19th April

Panel 1: Thinking Religion
Organiser/Chair: Kevin Killeen (University of Leeds)

> Peter Harrison (University of Oxford):
"Intellectual History and the History of Religion"
> Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow):
"Paradoxes and Legacies of the Early Modern ‘Liberal (Whig) Bible"
> Jane Shaw (University of Oxford):
"Intellectual History and Lived Religion"

> Vera Zvereva (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):
"Models of Natural History"
> Heiko Pollmeier (Technische Universität Braunschweig):
"The French Debate on Smallpox Inoculation (1754–1774) in a multidisciplinary Light"
> Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest):
"The Regulation of Assent and the Cultivation of the Self in Seventeenth-Century Thought"

> Constance Blackwell (ISIH)
"Georg Morhof’s Polyhistor Physicus 1708 and the Johann Georg Walch, De progressu ac fatis logicae 1721 and the codification of the progress of philosophy"
> Sergey Zenkin (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow):
"What is a historical idea?"
> Fabiola Zurlini (Studio Firmano dall’Antica Università per la Storia dell’Arte Medica e della Scienza):
"Models of Intellectual History: History of Bibliography and Early Modern Medicine"

Lunch

Panel 1: Why the Renaissance matters for Intellectual History - A Conversation
Organiser/Chair: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

> Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA)
> Dilwyn Knox (University College London)
> Sarah Hutton (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
> Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

> Elinor Shaffer (Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies, London):
"The Problems of Reception as an Intellectual Approach: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe Research Project"
> Francesca Billiani (Manchester University):
"Translating the Nation: Publishers and Censors in Inter-war Italy"
> Alessandra Tosi (University of Exeter):
"European Literature in Russia Around 1800: The Case of Volkonskaia"
> Lachlan Moyle (Institute of Romance and Germanic Studies, London):
"'As Others See Us': Interpreting Caricatural Imagery in British-German Relations 1945-2000"

> José Tomás Velasco Sánchez (Universidad de Zaragoza):
"Intellectual History and their models in the Anglosaxon World from a Spanish historiographical perspective "
> Beatriz Helena Domingues and Sonia Cristina da Fonseca Machado Lino (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora):
"Utopia and Religiosity in Oswald de Andrade"
> Jose-Javier Beneitez Prudencio (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha):
"Museumazing Imagination and Old Rearticulated Nationalism"

AGM

7:30

Friday 20th April

Panel 1: Early Modern 3
Chair: Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA)

> Ann E. Moyer (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania):
"Ficino’s Florentine Legacy"
> Andrew Fix (Lafayette College):
"Balthasar Bekker on Comets."
> Dana Jalobeanu (Western University “Vasile Goldiş”, Arad, Romania):
"Bacon’s reformation in context and its seventeenth century readers"

Panel 2: Presentation of the IDIH

> Ulrich Schneider (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig):
"Presentation  of the International Dictionary of Intellectual Historians (IDIH)"

11:00-11:30

Panel 1: Historiography 4
Chair: Peter Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London)

> Cynthia M. Pyle (New York University):
"History as Science?"
> Michael Lang (University of Maine):
“Civilization and Globe in Toynbee”
> Andrea Ragusa (Università di Siena):
"History of language: a model for history of intellectuals?"
> John Potts (Macquarie University):
"Toward a Refigured History of Ideas"

Panel 2: Epistemology, Culture and Intellectual History
Chair: Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)

> Rajesh Heynickx (History Department, University of Leuven):
"Linking epistemology and cultural criticism: a concept for writing the history of twentieth- century aesthetics"
> Frances Nethercott (University of St Andrews):
"Russians Writing History 1755-2005"
> Michael C. Carhart (Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia):
"Travel Reports and Comparative Linguistics: Malayo-Polynesian"

Panel 3: Historiography and Politics
Chair: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)

> Fred W. Beuttler (U.S. House of Representatives):
"Creating the 'Judeo-Christian' Tradition: Intellectuals, Institutions and Ideas in the Development of Democratic Theory"
> Theodore Christov (UCLA):
"Reuniting Political Theory and International Relations as a Model of Intellectual History: The Case of Thomas Hobbes"
> Alek D. Epstein (Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel):
"Intellectuals’ Freedom and Intellectuals’ Accountability: Israeli Scholars’ (Mis)interpretations of History in Comparative Perspective"