Komende week in Groningen weer een Collegium Spinozanum

Zoals het programma laat zien krijgen de deelnemers vanmiddag een City tour aangeboden. Daarna, vanaf dinsdag, ziet het programma van het Collegium Spinozanum II er best volgeladen uit. Er zijn weinig deelnemers uit Nederland te ontwaren.

Sunday 2 July
    15:00-17:00  City Tour of Groningen
Monday 3 July
    15:30-20:00  Registration and Welcome
Tuesday 4 July
      9:30-11:15  Karolina Hübner (Toronto): "Spinoza on thinking and minds"; discussion
    11:30-13:15  Beth Lord (Aberdeen): "Spinoza and Equality"; discussion
    15:00-15:30  Anna Tomaszewska (Jagiellonian): Kant’s Religious Rationalism and Spinoza"
    15:30-16:00  Oliver Istvan Toth (Eotvos Lorand/Klagenfurt): "Spinoza’s theory of intellect: Alexandrian, Averroist, Themistian or Cartesian?
    16:00-16:30  Christopher Noble (Villanova): "Automata in Spinoza’s Critique of Descartes in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione"
    16:30-17:00  Stephen Zylstra (Toronto): "Spinoza and Some Protestant Scholastics on Emanation and Immanent Causation"
    17:15-18:30  Reading Group (Andrea Sangiacomo, Toronto, chair): Principles of Cartesain Philosophy, selection
Wednesday 5 July
      9:30-11:15  Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus U Rotterdam): "Tractatus theologico-politicus: Triumph and Failure"; discussion
    14:30-15:40  Aurelia Armstrong (U Sydney): "On becoming what one is: Spinoza"; discussion
    15:00-15:30  Keith Green (East Tennessee State): "Spinoza on Turning the Other Cheek"
    15:30-16:00  Sanja Särman (Hong Kong U): "Spinoza’s Dual Concept of Perfection"
    16:00-16:30  Marta Libertà de Bastiani (Roma Tre/ENS Lyon): "Glory, Pride and Ambition: Between Spinoza and Roman Thought"
    16:30-17:00  Tobias Sebastian Dreher (Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munich): "Condition and Immanence: Education in Spinoza"
    17:15-18:30  Reading Group (Henri Krop, Erasmus U Rotterdam, chair): "Pierre Bayle"
Thursday 6 July
      9:30-11:15  Martin Lenz (Groningen): "Spinoza on the Conatus of Ideas"; discussion
    11:30-11:55  Steph Marston (Birkbeck Coll London): "Tumult, indignation...Trump?"
    11:55-12:20  Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins/Yale): "Spinoza on Power"
    12:25-12:50  Philip Waldner (Klagenfurt): "Spinoza on the forces of law: a political perspective"
    Free afternoon  Guided trip to Spinoza's house in Den Haag
Friday 7 July
      9:30-11:15  Lodi Nauta (Groningen): "Spinoza and the Limits of Philosophical Language"; discussion
    11:30-12:00  Robert Matyasi (Toronto): "Spinoza’s two concepts of parthood"
    12:00-12:30  Sarah Tropper (Alpen-Adria-U Klagenfurt): "‘Form’ as a Limiting Term in Spinoza’s Conception of Species"
    12:30-13:00  Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril (Aberdeen): "What is individual agency for Spinoza?"
    15:00-16:45  Michael della Rocca (Yale): "The Elusiveness of the One and the Many in Spinoza: Substance, Attribute, and Mode": discussion
    17:00-17:30  Kyle Driggers (North Carolina): "Tschirnhaus’ Question, Revisited: Why We Can Conceive Only Two of God’s Attributes"
    17:30-18:00  Stefanos Regkas (Panteion U): "The quatenus function: an approach of Spinoza’s theory of the attributes"
    18:00-18:30  Li-Chih Lin (Groningen): "Geometrical Method as the Spinozist Philosophical Language"
    18:30-19:00  Timon Boehm (ETH Zürich): "The power to act: A new approach to link 'metaphysics' and 'ethics' in Spinoza" (Abstract, short presentation)
Registration deadline is June 1. University Housing is no longer available, but it is possible to sign up for a waiting list, should any option become available.