First Workshop of the ERC Starting Grant MOM
Francis Bacon and the Medicine of the Mind
Stoic Protestantism in Late Renaissance England
First Workshop of the ERC Starting Grant MOM
New Europe College, Bucharest
13-15 May 2010
This is the first of a series of 5 workshops and colloquia organized as a part of the 5 years ERC Grant ‘Medicine of the mind in early modern England’ by Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) and Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest).
Participants:
Peter Harrison (Oxford University), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Koen Vermeir (CNRS), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Joseph Wolyniak (Oxford University), Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest).
Program
Thursday, 13 May: Papers
9-9.30 Short presentation of the project (Guido Giglioni, Sorana Corneanu, Dana Jalobeanu) over coffee
9.30-11.00 Peter Harrison, Francis Bacon and the Fruits of the Cultivation of the Mind
11.00-12.30 Dana Jalobeanu, Empirical aspects of medicina mentis: ‘Stoic’ natural histories of mind and body in late 16th century
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Guido Giglioni, Tacitean Stoicism or Stoic Tacitism? On Bacon’s Reception of Stoic Ideas and Its Context
15.30-17.00 Sorana Corneanu, Bacon on the ‘End of Knowledge’ and the Reconfiguration of Learning in the Late Renaissance
17.00-18.30 Round-up discussion
Friday, 14 May: Papers and Panel discussion: Bacon and the imagination
9.30-11.00 Koen Vermeir, Bacon's magician: projection and imagination
11.00-12.30 Doina Cristina Rusu, Imagination - Fascination and Prolongation of life
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-18.00 Panel discussion on selected texts (Bacon on imagination)
Saturday, 15 May: Panel discussion: French Protestants and Neostoicism
9.30-12.30 Panel discussion on selected texts (La Primaudaye, Du Plessis Mornay, Goulart, Wright)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
