Locating the Ancient World in Early Modern Subversive Thought -12-13-14/04/2018, Newcastle (England)
Dichotomies have long been used to define the intellectual developments of early modern Europe - reason and faith; authority and subversion; science and humanism; radicalism and tradition; heterodoxy and orthodoxy — with classical thought usually located on the side of tradition, a behemoth of learning which inhibited man’s reason and his ability to learn through observation. Such unilinear accounts of the progression to modernity have been subjected to increasingly numerous challenges in the last two decades, as scholars have sought to demonstrate that the ideas which drove Europe towards the Enlightenment were far more complex and multi-layered than suggested by the traditional narratives.
The keynote speakers will be Peter Harrison (University of Queensland) and Marianne Pade (Danish Academy at Rome).
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 12-13-14/04/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Newcastle University (Newcastle, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Katherine A. East
INFO: web - katherine.east@ncl.ac.uk
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PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday 12th April
13.30-14.00 Coffee and Registration
14.00-14.30 Welcome Address
14.30-16.30 Panel One: Institutions of Religion
Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh): ‘Numa in Plaid: Scottish Interpretations of Roman Religion, c. 1602-1759’
John Holton (Newcastle): ‘Thomas Hobbes, Diodorus Siculus, and Early Human Society’
Ashley Walsh (Cambridge): ‘Ciceronianism and the Multitude in the Civil Religion of the Third Earl of Shaftesbury’
17.00-18.00 Keynote Address
Marianne Pade (Danish Academy at Rome): ‘Thucydides vs Aristotle: Leonardo Bruni on Popular Government’
18.00-19.00 Drinks Reception
Friday 13th April
9.30-11.30 Panel Two: Rewriting the Natural World
Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University): ‘Subverting Aristotelianism through Aristotle: Giordano Bruno’s Interpretation of the Physics’
Karine Durin (Nantes): ‘Dangerous Pliny: Natural Philosophy and the Limits of Christian Orthodoxy in the Renaissance’
Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford): ‘William Coward (1657-1724), the Material Soul, and ‘Undeniable History’: a Physician’s Critical Study of Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian Pasts’
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.30 Panel Three: Pagan Belief
Jonathan Nathan (Cambridge): ‘Orthodox Atheism and the Manuscript Theophrastus Redivivus’
Tim Stuart-Buttle (York): ‘Pagan Philosophy and Early Modern Natural Law Theory: John Maxwell’s Edition of Cumberland’s De Legibus Naturae (1727)’
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Panel Four: The Power of Words
Callum Murrell (Durham): ‘The Invention of Subversion: Fiction and Narrative in the Elizabethan Star Chamber’
Julianne Mentzer (St Andrews): ‘“Give me my fee!”: Transgressive Use of Rhetoric in The Dutch Courtesan’
Rowland Smith (Newcastle): ‘The Persecuting Pagan and the Philosophic Protestant: Julian the Apostate in English Reception from Marvell to Gibbon, by way of Hampton Court and Voltaire the Bigot’
17.00-18.00 Keynote Address
Peter Harrison (University of Queensland): ‘The Authority of the Ancients: the Case of Heterodox Religion in Seventeenth Century England’
18.00 Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner
Saturday 14th April
9.30-11.30 Panel Five: Popular Politics
Astrid Khoo (KCL): ‘Subverting Cicero: Roman Republican Polemic in Milton’s Defensio Pro Populo Anglicano’
Dikaia Gavala (Aberdeen): ‘“Rise before the Majesty of the People”: Popular Republicanism in Restoration Drama’
Minchul Kim (St Andrews): ‘War and Patriotism: Roman History and Military Government in the French Revolutionary Debates’
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.30 Panel Five: Epicurean Echoes
Jessica Pirie (Birmingham): ‘Aphra Behn’s The Young King and the Lucretian Revival’
Jared Holley (EUI): ‘Epicureanism and Popular Sovereignty in Rousseau’
13.30 Lunch and Farewells