Location
University College London
Lost in Time: Intellectual History Before the Guillotine
Gustave Tuck lecture theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
Day One: Thursday 10th of April 2025
Welcome and Registration: (10.00-10.15)
Introductory remarks: (10.15 – 10.30)
Prof. Angus Gowland (UCL)
Panel 1: Re-reading the classics (10.30 – 12.00)
Marta Spina (Warwick) – Republicanism and Freedom in Florence: Sallust’s Influence on the Development of Early Renaissance Political Thought
Lidia Negoi (Independent scholar) – Aristotle for the Many: Social and Ethical Ideas in Late Medieval Sermons
Matthew Haji-Michael (Vienna) – Plato’s Political Realism
LUNCH: (12.00 – 13.00)
Panel 2: Global Chronologies and Christian Formats (13.00 – 14.00)
Ross Moncrieff (Oxford) – The Chinese Noah: Harmonising Chinese and Biblical Chronology in Early Modern Britain and China
Sofía Williamson-García (Cambridge) – Domingo Chimalpahin: Between Epistemologies of Time
Break (14.00 – 14.30)
Panel 3: Virtues in a Christian World (14.30 – 16.00)
Yunru Chen (Cambridge) – Augustine’s exchange with Nectarius
Susie Heywood (KCL) – The Virtue of Prudence: forgotten hero of medieval political thought
Eero Arum (Berkeley) – Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology
Break (16.00 – 16.30)
Keynote lecture: (16.30 – 18.00)
Dr. Dmitri Levitin (Oxford) – Saving Early Modernity from Modernity: the New Contextualism
Wine reception: 18.00-19.00
Day two: Friday, 11th of April 2025:
Panel 4: Politics and Artifice (10.30 – 12.00)
Karl Peeter Valk (Tallinn) – The Clock and its Maker: On the Late Medieval Mechanical Turn
Genevieve E. Caulfield (UCL) – Political visions: Reframing Roger Bacon’s and Johannes Kepler’s optics as political thought
James Coghill (Independent scholar) – Unruly Beasts and the advance of common law in the 16th century
Lunch: (12:00 – 13.00)
Panel 5: Nature before and after the Fall (13.00 – 14.30)
Lilia M. Ellis (Chicago) – Human weakness, divine love: a theological anthropology of finitude and infinitude in Julian of Norwich
Valentin Braekman (Lausanne) – What if Adam Had Not Sinned? Francisco Suárez on the Foundations of Political Power
Eva-Sophie Mörschel (Erfurt) – Towards an early modern approach to privacy: Bodin and private contemplation
Break: 14.30-14.45
Panel 6: Tinkering with texts and genres (14.45 – 16.15)
Robyn MacLeod Stewart (York) – The Use of the Eusebian Apparatus in Hiberno-Latin Gospel Texts (c. 700-900): Paratextual and Intertextual Approaches
Edvald Johnsen (NUST) – Phaedrus’s Aesop
Charlotte McCallum (QMUL) – Nicholas Machiavel’s Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings (1675): texts, paratexts, context
Break: (16.15 – 16.30)
Roundtable: (16.30 – 18.00)
Prof. Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL) – Concluding Remarks
Prof. George Garnett (Oxford)
Prof. Valentina Arena (Oxford)
Dr. Shiru Lim (Leiden)
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