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Colloquia in Venice

Colloquia of the ERC-EarlyModernCosmology group on projects. These regular research meetings take place at the University Ca’ Foscari Venice, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà 3484/D Dorsoduro, Venezia

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
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

Coming events

2019, May 21^st-22^nd - ERC-EarlyModernCosmology Workshop "Marsilio Ficino’s Cosmology: Sources, Reception, Historiography"
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"

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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"”
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 - “Verum factum: Perspectives in Political Epsitemology”, the ERC-EMC book serie

Events participation and Talks by Group members

Annual conference of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), (Mexico City, 2018 November 12-17). Session organization (double session): “Early Modern Geological Agency". Pietro Daniel Omodeo, talk: “Natural History and Human Praxis between Renaissance Vitalism and Magic.”
Galileo nel contesto, Università di Perugia, Dipartimento di Filosofia (2018, October 25). Pietro Daniel Omodeo, talk: “Coordinate politico-culturali dell’affare Galileo” (Cultural-political coordinates of the Galileo affaire).
8th conference of the European Society for the History of Science in conjunction with the British Society for the History of Science (2018, September 14-17, London). Session organization (double session): “Towards a Curriculum of Political Epistemology: Theory and Case Studies” Pietro Daniel Omodeo, talk: “Cultural Politics of Cosmology in Europe in the Early Modernity.”
Revolutions in the History of Early Modern Philosophy and Science (2018, July 26-28, Iowa State University). Pietro Daniel Omodeo, talk (with Jonathan Regier): “Celestial Physics.”
Nicolaus Copernicus in the 21st Century: Context, Resources, Methods (Warsaw, Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, 21 May 2018). Pietro Daniel Omodeo, talk: “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe.”
Raccontare il Rinascimento: Telesio, Bruno e Campanella nei centri di ricerca europei, (Cosenza, Centro di Studi Telesiani, Bruniani e Campanelliani, 6 November 2017.

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