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, José 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 Münster). “„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/17^th-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).

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: Már Jónsson (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 Pécharman (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)