The Making of the Humanities

 

First International Conference on the History of the Humanities

 

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23-25 October 2008, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Final Program

 

Organizers: Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn

 

Theme: The Emergence of the Humanities in Early Modern Europe

 

Pdf-file of Program and Abstracts

 

Frontpage of Conference book

 

Historical Map of the Humanities in Amsterdam

 

 

����������������������� Thursday 23 October

 

9.45-10.15: ������� ���Coffee and tea. Sale of Conference dinner vouchers (45 Euro).

 

10.15-10.25: ����� ���Opening of the conference by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Jos� van Dijck

 
10.25-11.15: �������� Invited paper by Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame School of Architecture). 
������������������������������ �Describing the World: From Metaphor to Science�
 
11.15-12.25: �������� Heretics and Humanists in Italy

11.15-11.50: �������� Hilary Gatti (U. of Rome, La Sapienza). �Giordano Bruno and Metaphor�

11.50-12.25: �������� Bernward Schmidt (U. of M�nster). ��In Erudition there is no Heresy.� The Humanities in Baroque Rome

 

12.25-13.30: �������� Lunch. Sale of Conference dinner vouchers (45 Euro)

 

13.30-15.15: �������� Painting and Poetry as Liberal Arts

13.30-14.05: �������� Marieke van den Doel (U. of Amsterdam). �Painting and the Orphic Lyre: the Liberal Arts According to Ficino�

14.05-14.40: �������� Thijs Weststeijn (U. of Amsterdam). �Pictography and Utopianism in the Seventeenth Century�

14.40-15.15: �������� Cesc Esteve (King�s College London). �The History of Poetry in Early Modern Literary Criticism�

 

15.15-15.45: �������� Coffee and tea

 

15.45-17.30: �������� Language and Education

15.45-16.20: �������� Michael Edwards (U. of Cambridge). �Rhetoric, Text and Commentary in the Philosophy of the Schools, 1550-1640�

16.20-16.55: �������� Paivi Mehtonen (U. of Tampere). �Towards the Obscure Discipline of Comparative Literature: A.G. Baumgarten (1714-1762) and George Campbell (1719-1796) on

�������������������������� �� Rhetoric and Poetics�

16.55-17.30: �������� Michiel Leezenberg (U. of Amsterdam). �Wilhelm von Humboldt and Adamantios Korais on Language, Nation and Education�

 

17.45-18.45: �������� Reception at the Residence of the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, Herengracht 502 (ten minutes walking from the conference venue)

 

 

 

Friday 24 October

 

9.45-10.15: ������� ���Coffee and tea

 
10.15-11.05:��������� Invited paper David Cram (Jesus College, University of Oxford). 
���The Changing Relations between Grammar, Rhetoric and Music in the Early Modern Period�

 

11.05-12.15: �������� Linguists and Logicians

11.05-11.40: �������� Jaap Maat (U. of Amsterdam). �The artes sermocinales in Times of Adversity: How Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric Survived the Seventeenth Century�

11.40-12.15: �������� Rens Bod (U. of Amsterdam). �Formalization in the Humanities: From Valla to Scaliger�

 

12:15-13.15: �������� Lunch

 

13.15-14.05: �������� Invited paper Floris Cohen (Univerity of Utrecht).

�� �Music as Science and as Art � The 16th/17th-Century Destruction of Cosmic Harmony�

 

14.05-15.15: �������� Science versus Art

14.05-14.40: �������� Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie (U. of Minnesota). �Partially Modern: Scholastic Sound Particles and Empiricist Overtones�

14.40-15.15: �������� Cynthia Pyle (New York U.). �Renaissance Humanism and Science: A Different View of the Development of the Humanities in Early Modern Europe

 

15.15-15.45: �������� Coffee and tea

 

15.45-17.30: �������� Early Humanism and its Impact

15.45-16.20: �������� Lodi Nauta (U. of Groningen). �Lorenzo Valla�s Critique of Scholastic Language and Philosophy�

16.20-16.55: �������� Juliette Groenland (U. of Amsterdam). �Humanism in the Classroom, a Reassessment��������������

 

17.30-18.45: �������� Public Event on the History of the Humanities at SPUI25

 

19.15-21.30: �������� Conference Dinner in De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4 (Conference dinner voucher needed).

 

 

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Saturday 25 October

 

9.45-10.15: ������� ���Coffee and tea

 
10.15-11.05: �������� Invited paper Anthony Grafton (Princeton University). 
����How Late was Late Humanism? Renaissance Learning and the Research University

 

11.05-12.15: �������� Defending the Text

11.05-11.40: �������� M�r J�nsson (U. of Iceland). �Manuscript Hunting and Philological Progress in the Seventeenth Century�

11.40-12.15: �������� Dirk van Miert (U. of London). �Humanism and Warfare: Philology and Military Engineering in the Decades around 1600�

 

12-15-13.15: �������� Lunch

 

13.15-15.00: �������� Philology and Philosophy

13.15-13.50: �������� Martine van Ittersum (U. of Dundee). �All in the Family: How Hugo Grotius� Relations Shaped the Writing, Circulation and Publication of His Work�

13.50-14.25: �������� Piet Steenbakkers (U. of Utrecht). �Spinoza in the History of Biblical Scholarship�

14.25-15.00: �������� Martine P�charman (CNRS-EHESS). �The Import of the Debate between Richard Simon and Antoine Arnauld�

 

15.00-15.30: �������� Coffee and tea

 

15.30-16.40: �������� The History of History

15.30-16.05: �������� Jacques Bos (U. of Amsterdam). �Renaissance Historiography: Framing a New Mode of Historical Experience�

16.05-16.40: �������� Wouter Hanegraaff (U. of Amsterdam). �Philosophy�s Shadow: Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) and the History of Thought�

 

16.40-17.15: �������� General Discussion with Anthony Grafton (Princeton University):

�������������������������� Towards a Comparative History of the �Humanistic Sciences�?

�������������������������� �� Publication plans and future conference.

 

17.15: ��������������� ���Closing and Drinks

 

 

Auspices: European Science Foundation (ESF), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)

 

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