News and events

1 non-tenured Assistant Professor

The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the University Ca' Foscari Venice, Host Institution of the ERC-EarlyModernCosmology, is looking for a non-tenured Assistant professor / Ricercatore (RTD-a) (3 years) with an outstanding scholarly profile in the research area of the ERC endeavor:

Institutional and cultural history of cosmology and relevant sciences in the Early Modern age.

The position will also be connected with part-time teaching duties in the history of science (one module of 30 hours).

Call deadline: 11 March 2019 at 12:00 (Venice time)

Link to the full call (ITA): https://intra.unive.it/plapps/bandi/common/showbando?id=30549

The call in English can be downloaded at the following link: https://intra.unive.it/plapps/bandi/common/file_bandi/30624.pdf  

Apply through the online procedure: https://static.unive.it/domandeconcorso-en/accesso/rtda-msto05

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, February 4th - Francesca Putignano, “Feminist Standpoint Theory: an Overview of Historical Roots and Epistemological Issues”. Discussant: Sascha Freyberg
• 2019, January 16th - Matteo Fornasier, “Echoes of Renaissance Thought in Academic Medicine and Botany in Paris (XVI-XVII centuries)” Discussant: Rodolfo Garau
• 2018, December 19th - Omar Del Nonno, “The behaviour of the free man in the Ethics and the Tractatus politicus”. Discussant, Gregorio Baldin.
• 2018, December 5th - Sascha Freyberg, “Ethico-political Consequences of Cosmology: Edgar Wind on Kant‘s Antinomies”. Discussant: Omar Del Nonno. 
• 2018, November 22nd - Jacomien Prins, “Marin Mersenne: Harmonist at the Heart of the Scientific Revolution”. Discussant: Darrel Rutkin.
• 2018, October 17th – Gregorio Baldin, “Temporal power, spiritual power and potestà de’ prencipi: Politics and political theology in Sarpi and Hobbes”. Discussant: Rodolfo Garau
• 2018, October 3rd - Darrel Rutkin, “What Makes Early Modern Cosmology ‘Early Modern’?: Reflections on and a Suggestion for a Historical Periodization Scheme”. Discussant: Pietro Omodeo.
• 2018, September 26th - Pietro Omodeo, “Political Epistemology of Early Modern Cosmology.”

Coming events

• 2019, February 21st -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 21st - Stefano Gulizia, New Europe College, Bucharest, "Nicolaus Andreae Granius: Physics and Cosmology at Helmstedt”

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• 2018, December 5th - Jean Sanchez, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, “Astrology in modern France”
• 2018, Novembre 22nd - Doina-Cristina Rusu, University of Groningen and Visiting Scholar at Ca’ Foscari, “Cosmology and Redemption in Anne Conway’s Metaphysics”
• 2018, October 17th - Stefan Zieme, HU Berlin, "Interpreting Art through the History of Science. Adam Elsheimer and the Renaissance Night Sky"
• 2018, September 5th - Alberto Bardi, Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig, “The Astronomical Manuscripts of the Bessarione Collection at the Marciana Library”
• 2018, June 18th - Dana Jalobeanu, University of Bucharest - Roberto Bondì, Università della Calabria, “Telesio and Bacon: a conversation on Renaissance science and philosophy”
• 2018, June 4th - Ana Simões, University of Lisbon - Claudia Stein, University of Warwick - Roger Cooter, University of London, “Perspectives on epistemology and politics”
• 2018, March 20th-21st - Bruno scholars, "Brainstorming for an Opera Dedicated to Bruno: Renaissance Science, Philosophy, and Art"
• 2018, March 2th-3rd - "Towards an Ethical-Political History of Early Modern Science", the ERC-EMC editorial project  
• 2017, December 12th - "Edition Open Access Berlin", the ERC-EMC editorial project
• 2017, November 13th-14th - “Verum factum: Perspectives in Political Epsitemology”, the ERC-EMC book serie

• 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.