pátek | 13. 10. 2023 - 14. 10. 2023
workshop | Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Prague
Northern Networks, Prague
Organized by Anglia Ruskin University as a part of a grant project "Northern Networks: Astronomical and Medical Knowledge from the Baltic to East Central Europe" with the Institute of Philosophy, CAS as a project partner.
Further information
The latest in a series of workshops devoted to intellectual networks and the circulation of knowledge in the early modern age.
If interested in attending, please contact PhDr. Vladimír Urbánek, Ph.D. at:
PROGRAMME
Friday 13rd October
Coffee available from 9.30am
10am – welcome (Cassie Gorman, Stefano Gulizia and Vladimίr Urbánek)
10.30-12.00
Panel 1: Regulating Intellectual Exchanges. Chaired by Stefano Gulizia
Boris Jardine, ‘A Republic of Makers? Towards a Model for the Circulation of Craft Know-How’
Dániel Margócsy, ‘The Military Complex of the Republic of Letters’
12-1pm – lunch at the Macedonian Bistro Antonio Sandev (http://antoniosandev.cz/bistro/)
1-3pm.
Panel 2: The Dissemination of Cosmology. Chaired by Vladimίr Urbánek
Lucie Storchová, ‘Astronomical Poetry between Wittenberg and Prague: A Case Study in Early Modern Intellectual Exchange’
Adam Mosley, ‘Cosmological Questions in North Central Europe in the Seventeenth Century’
Mordechai Feingold, ‘The Confessional Underpinnings of Triumphant English Copernicanism’
3-3.30 – coffee
3.30-6pm – Transfer to the Strahov Monastery and visit of the collection.
7pm – dinner at Petřínské Terasy, https://petrinsketerasy.cz/
Saturday 14th October
9-10.30.
Panel 3: Looting and Collecting. Chaired by Iva Lelková
Veronika Čapská, ‘Knowledge and Negative Reciprocity in the Time of the Thirty Years War’
Stefano Gulizia, ‘Antiquarianism and the Quest for Hyperborean Languages’
10.30-11.00 – coffee
11.00-12.30.
Panel 4: The Natural World. Chaired by Cassie Gorman
Florike Egmond, ‘Northern Exchanges and Natural Science in Clusius’ Network, c. 1560-1610: between the Local and the International’
Maria Florutau, ‘Transylvania in the Northern Networks: The Adoption of Linnaean Taxonomy and Instructions in the Eighteenth Century’
12.30-1.30 – lunch at the Institute of Philosophy
1.30– 2pm – closing discussion
