Organized by Dana Jalobeanu and Rodolfo Garau
Wednesday from 4 pm; Department of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Nuremberg (Room 02 Ground Floor Ulmenstrasse 52i and online on zoom)
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Winter Semester 2026
January 14, 2026
Michael Francis Polios (Duquesne University), Spinoza and Bacon on a Science of Singular Things
January 21, 2026
Laura Georgescu (Groningen), From Wholes to Parts: Digby’s Philosophy of the Body
January 28, 2026
Erasmus Mayr (Erlangen–Nürnberg), Kant on Conscience
February 4, 2026
Doina Cristina Rusu (Amsterdam), Extracting Spirits: The Role of Distillations in the Emergence of Early Modern Experimental Philosophy
February 18, 2026
Hannes Amberger (Erfurt), From Roman Law to Modern Philosophy: Early Modern Natural Law
Spring Semester 2026
March 18, 2026
Alan Stewart (Columbia), Essays, Meditations, Colours: Francis Bacon’s Project in 1597
April 1, 2026
Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), Opening up the Ivory Tower: Science and Medicine in Public Disputations at Early Modern Oxford and Cambridge
April 22, 2026
Philip Beeley (Oxford), Astrologers, Almanac-Makers, and Mathematicians in Later Seventeenth-Century London. Structure and Nature of an Early-Modern Scientific Eco-System.
April 29, 2026
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), The magnetic Virtue of John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad
May 6, 2026
Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), The Knowledge Economy of Geocentric Astronomy from the 13th to the 17th Century
May 13, 2026
Martin Korenjak (Innsbruck), Euclid’s Elements as a Structural Model for Early Modern Books
May 27, 2026
Ovanes Akopyan (Zagreb) “Si interveniat Politianus: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Renaissance Rejection of Astrology as a Humanist Exercise.
June 3, 2026
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / Chicago), The Birth of a Scientific Object: Describing the Aurora Borealis in Early Modern Europe
June 17, 2026
Stephan Zieme (Paris Observatory), George of Trebizond’s Latin Translation of the Almagest and the Revision of Diagrams
Program 2025
September 5, Peter Anstey (Catholic University of Australia), Du Chatelet on Principles (Mark it is a Friday!)
October 1, Silvia Manzo (University La Plata, Argentina), “Freedom from impediments in politics and natural philosophy. Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, and the Late Scholastic Legacy” (in person)
October 15, Friedrich Steinle (Technical University Berlin), Analyzing concept dynamics. Newton and the concept of light rays
October 16, John McCaskey, The Other Kind of Induction: Philosophy, History, and Case Study (speaker online)
October 22, Martin Lenz (Hagen), Christian Thomasius on Language and Thought
October 29, Alan Stewart (Columbia), TBC
November 12, Stephan Schmidt (University of Hamburg), “Spinoza and the Possibility of Finite Modes”
November 19, Sophia Regopoulos (UTN), Dialectics and legitimation of property
November 26, Martin Korenjak (University of Innsbruck), „More geometrico. Euclid’s Elements as a structural model“ (speaker on site)
December 3 Sergius Kodera (University of Vienna): Bacon & fables – Prometheus
December 10 Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter) TBA
Dana Jalobeanu 