News and events

Colloquia in Venice

Colloquia of the ERC - Early Modern Cosmology group on projects. These regular research meetings take place at the University Ca’ Foscari Venice, Malcanton Marcorà (Aula Valent) at 4:00 p.m.

2019, June 12^th - Marco Storni, “Institutions and Politics in the Debate over the Shape of the Earth, 1666-1740”. h. 2:45-4:00 p.m.
2019, May 6^th - Jacomien Prins, “Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus Commentary: Musical Speculations of a Renaissance Interpreter”.
2019, April 15^th - Gregorio Baldin, “Against Aristotle and Metaphysics: Paolo Sarpi’s Natural Philosophy”.
2019, March 20^th - Rodolfo Garau, “Manuscript draft on the introduction to my book on the concept of conatus”. Discussant: Omar del Nonno
2019, February 4^th - Francesca Putignano, “Feminist Standpoint Theory: an Overview of Historical Roots and Epistemological Issues”. Discussant: Sascha Freyberg
2019, January 16^th - Matteo Fornasier, “Echoes of Renaissance Thought in Academic Medicine and Botany in Paris (XVI-XVII centuries)” Discussant: Rodolfo Garau

Past events

2018, December 19^th - Omar Del Nonno, “The behaviour of the free man in the Ethics and the Tractatus politicus”. Discussant, Gregorio Baldin.
2018, December 5^th - Sascha Freyberg, “Ethico-political Consequences of Cosmology: Edgar Wind on Kant‘s Antinomies”. Discussant: Omar Del Nonno.
2018, November 22^nd - Jacomien Prins, “Marin Mersenne: Harmonist at the Heart of the Scientific Revolution”. Discussant: Darrel Rutkin.
2018, October 17^th – Gregorio Baldin, “Temporal power, spiritual power and potestà de’ prencipi: Politics and political theology in Sarpi and Hobbes”. Discussant: Rodolfo Garau
2018, October 3^rd - Darrel Rutkin, “What Makes Early Modern Cosmology ‘Early Modern’?: Reflections on and a Suggestion for a Historical Periodization Scheme”. Discussant: Pietro Omodeo.
2018, September 26^th - Pietro Omodeo, “Political Epistemology of Early Modern Cosmology.”

Seminars and Workshops in Venice

2019, June 19^th - Hannah Marcus (Harvard University) and Cynthia Klestinec (Miami University), "Discussions on the History of Medicine"
2019, June 18^th - Guido Giglioni (Università di Macerata) and Matteo Martelli (Università di Bologna), "A Conversation on Medieval and Renaissance Studies on Science"
2019, June 12^th - Luca Guzzardi, Università degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Filosofia, "Politics of Collaboration: The Case of Astronomy and Observatory Sciences in the Late Eighteenth Century"
2019, May 23^rd - Razieh-Sadat Mousavi (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jonathan Regier (Ghent University), Alberto Bardi (Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University), "Cosmology in Early Medieval Islam - Through the lens of al-Fargha¯nı¯’s Elements of Astronomy"
2019, April 11^th-12^th - Flavio D'Abramo, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, "Integrating science and politics: Ecological Developmental Biology and its historical roots"
2019, March 29^th - Senthil Babu (IF Pondicherry & Visiting Ca' Foscari Venice) and Roy Wagner (ETH Zürich), "Political Economy of Computational Work in History: The case of the Vernacular Math Traditions in India"
2019, March 20^th - Silvina Paula Vidal, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research / Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina), “Giordano Bruno’s metaphor of the Spanish conquest as a "swallowing whale"”

Past events

2019, March 7^th - Gerardo Ienna, Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, “Introduzione alle radici francesi dell’epistemologia storica”
2019, March 6^th - Sascha Freyberg, Pietro Omodeo and Giulia Rispoli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), with the participation of Gerardo Ienna (Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione), “Boris Hessen’s textbook on Classical Physics in the context of early Soviet approaches to historical epistemology”
2019, February 21^st - Ralph & Dagmar Neuhäuser, University Jena - Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory, Jena, “Astrophysical and cultural relevance of historical celestial observations - examples from the 16th and 17th century”
2019, February 21^st - Stefano Gulizia, New Europe College, Bucharest, "Nicolaus Andreae Granius: Physics and Cosmology at Helmstedt”
2018, December 5^th - Jean Sanchez, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, “Astrology in modern France”
2018, Novembre 22^nd - Doina-Cristina Rusu, University of Groningen and Visiting Scholar at Ca’ Foscari, “Cosmology and Redemption in Anne Conway’s Metaphysics”
2018, October 17^th - Stefan Zieme, HU Berlin, "Interpreting Art through the History of Science. Adam Elsheimer and the Renaissance Night Sky"
2018, September 5^th - Alberto Bardi, Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig, “The Astronomical Manuscripts of the Bessarione Collection at the Marciana Library”
2018, June 18^th - Dana Jalobeanu, University of Bucharest - Roberto Bondì, Università della Calabria, “Telesio and Bacon: a conversation on Renaissance science and philosophy”
2018, June 4^th - Ana Simões, University of Lisbon - Claudia Stein, University of Warwick - Roger Cooter, University of London, “Perspectives on epistemology and politics”
2018, March 20^th-21^st - Bruno scholars, "Brainstorming for an Opera Dedicated to Bruno: Renaissance Science, Philosophy, and Art"
2018, March 2^th-3^rd - "Towards an Ethical-Political History of Early Modern Science", the ERC-EMC editorial project
2017, December 12^th - "Edition Open Access Berlin", the ERC-EMC editorial project
2017, November 13^th-14^th and 15^th-18^th - “Verum factum: Perspectives in Political Epistemology”, the ERC-EMC book series

Major project events in Venice

2019, May 30^th - ERC EarlyModernCosmology-K4U Joint Conference "Mettere ordine al mondo: prospettive logiche ed epistemologiche su scienza, natura, società"
2019, May 21^st-22^nd - ERC-EarlyModernCosmology Workshop "Marsilio Ficino’s Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography"

Calendar and announcements

Events participation and Talks by Group members

2019, May 29-30 - Marco Storni: "Early Eighteenth-Century Cartesian Epistemologies," in Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, VI, University of Groningen.
2019, May 25 - Sascha Freyberg: "Morphological Principles of Iconology" at International Conference "Iconologies", 23-25 May, University of Cracow.
2019, May 21-22 - Darrell Rutkin: "Is Ficino's Astrology Theurgic?: A Preliminary Expolration," at ERC EarlyModernCosmology Workshop: Marsilio Ficino's Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography, Ca' Foscary University of Venice.
2019, May 21-22 - Pietro D. Omodeo: "From Ficino’s Psychology to Bruno’s Populist
Reason: Culianu Reassessed" at ERC EarlyModernCosmology Workshop: Marsilio Ficino's Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography, Ca' Foscary University of Venice.
2019, May 21-22 - Gregorio Baldin: "Marsilio Ficino’s Theory of Light, and Marin Mersenne" at ERC EarlyModernCosmology Workshop: Marsilio Ficino's Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography, Ca' Foscary University of Venice.
2019, May 21-22 - Sascha Freyberg: "Dialectics and Depiction: Edgar Wind on Ficino and his Influence" at ERC EarlyModernCosmology Workshop: Marsilio Ficino's Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography, Ca' Foscary University of Venice.
2019, May 21-22 -Jacomien Prins: "Sounds and Images as Expressions of Divine Order in Ficino’s Timaeus commentary," at ERC EarlyModernCosmology Workshop: Marsilio Ficino's Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography, Ca' Foscary University of Venice.
2019, March 17-19 - Jacomien Prins: "Music, Emotions and Tranquillity of Mind in Renaissance Music Theory,"" Panel: Music, Emotions and Ethics, Renassaince Society of America Conference Toronto.
2019, May 17-18 - Gregorio Baldin: "Against Aristotle and Metaphysics: Paolo Sarpi's Natural Philosophy," in Les fondements d'une autre modernité/The Foundations of Another Modernity, organisé par Delphine-Antoine Mahut, Pierre Girard, Gianni Paganini et Susana Seguin, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon.
2019, April 11-12 - Marco Storni: "Mécanisme, matière et force chez Maupertuis: les usages de Descartes et de Newton dans la Vénus physique," in Les usages de la métaphysique classique chez les matérialistes français du 18e siècle, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon.
2019, March 13 - Rodolfo Garau: "Taking pleasure in history. Some notes on Catherine Wilson’s history of Epicureanism and of philosophy," Conference in Honor or Catherine Wilson. The University of York, York (UK).

Past events

2018, December 21 - Omar Del Nonno "Osservazioni sulla mereologia spinoziana. La connessione tra ontologia e politica nella filosofia pratica di Spinoza," in II Riunione della Societas Spinozana. Giornata di Studi: "Spinoza: ipotesi e risultati," KNIR, Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma.
2018, December 18, - Darrell Rutkin: “Divination, Superstition and the Marginalization of Astrology: Discourses of Legitimacy and Marginalization from Thomas Aquinas to the Index of Prohibited Books (1564), the Two Anti-Astrological Bulls (1586 and 1631) and Beyond,” in Astrologie dans les Communautés Françaises au 17e Siècle, organisé par Jean Sanchez et Steven Vanden Broecke, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
2018, November 12^th-17^th - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Annual Conference of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), Mexico City. Session organization (double session): “Early Modern Geological Agency". Talk: “Natural History and Human Praxis between Renaissance Vitalism and Magic.”
2018, November 11 - Rodolfo Garau: "Gassendi’s Logic: Syllogism, Inductivism and Experiments," International Symposium: Logic and Metaphysics in the Modern Era. Université Libre de Bruxelles – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles.
2018, October 25^th - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Galileo nel contesto, Università di Perugia, Dipartimento di Filosofia. Talk: “Coordinate politico-culturali dell’affare Galileo” (Cultural-political coordinates of the Galileo affaire).
2018, October 18-19 - Jacomien Prins: "Musical Ethos and Chaste Love in Early Modern Conceptions of the Good Life,"
Conference: Inventing the Good Life: How Italy Shaped Early Modern Moral Culture, Wolfenbüttel/Herzog August Bibliothek.
2018, September 14^th-17^th - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Conference of the European Society for the History of Science in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science, London. Session organization (double session): “Towards a Curriculum of Political Epistemology: Theory and Case Studies” Talk: “Cultural Politics of Cosmology in Europe in the Early Modernity.”
2018, September 16 - Rodolfo Garau: "Biological Individuality in Early Modern Science: The Cases of Gassendi and Descartes,"" at European Society for the History of Science, panel “Unifying life from the Scientific Revolution”. London.
2018, September 15 - Sascha Freyberg "Metapolitics and the History of Science in Marburg Neo-Kantianism" at Conference of the European Society for the History of Science in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science, London. Panel: “Towards a Curriculum of Political Epistemology: Theory and Case Studies”
2018, July 26^th-28^th - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Revolutions in the History of Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Iowa State University. Talk (with Jonathan Regier): “Celestial Physics.”
2018, 21^st May - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Nicolaus Copernicus in the 21st Century: Context, Resources, Methods, Warsaw, Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. Talk: “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe.”
2017, 6^th November - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Centro di Studi Telesiani, Bruniani e Campanelliani, Cosenza. Talk: "Raccontare il Rinascimento: Telesio, Bruno e Campanella nei centri di ricerca europei".