The spring 2021 issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS), ISSN: 2285-6382 (paperback), ISSN: 2286-0290 (electronic), edited by the Foundations of Modern Thought Research Centre, University of Bucharest, is now available on the Zeta Books website. The issue contains articles by Patrick Brissey, Hanoch Ben-Yami, Osvaldo Ottaviani and Joseph Anderson, as well as a review article by Dana Jalobeanu, a corpus review and three book reviews.
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JEMS CFP Special Issues Spring 2023 – Fall 2023
The Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS), ISSN: 2285-6382 (paperback), ISSN: 2286-0290 (electronic), edited by the “Foundations of Modern Thought” Research Centre, University of Bucharest, welcomes proposals for its Spring and Fall 2023 Special Issues. Prospective guest editors are invited to explore any topic pertinent to JEMS’s general interest in cross-disciplinary approaches to early modern thought that draw on intellectual history, history of philosophy and history of science. The main language of the journal is English, although contributions in French are also accepted. JEMS is a double blind peer-reviewed journal, currently indexed in Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index, ERIH+, EBSCO, Philosophy Research Index, PhilPapers.
Please prepare proposals that contain the following:
• A description of the topic (up to 1200 words)
• A table of contents (6-8 articles of 8000 words each)
• Short abstracts of the contributions (up to 300 words each)
• Short bios of the editors and contributors
• A timeline of manuscript submission
The deadline for submission of proposals for either of the two issues is October 1, 2021.
Please send your queries and your proposals to jems [at] zetabooks.com.
For further details about JEMS, please visit https://zetabooks.com/library/journals/journal-of-early-modern-studies/.
Early Modern Cluster at the University of Bucharest
There is a long tradition of studying the early modern period at the University of Bucharest. Scholars from different faculties and departments of the university are caring out projects and collaborate in interdisciplinary manner. We are constantly engaged in organizing international events, such as the conferences and colloquia in Early Modern Philosophy and Early Modern Science.
At the moment, several research projects are being implemented:
- Prințul Dimitrie Cantemir (1675-1723) în căutarea unei reforme creștin-răsăritene a cunoașterii (2021-2023; PI: Vlad Alexandrescu)
- Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution (2020-2022; PI: Mihnea Dobre)
- Recipes, ‘technologies’, experiments: Enactment and the emergence of modern science (2021-2023; PI: Dana Jalobeanu).
- Between Truth and Freedom: Enlightenment Answers to “Thinking for Oneself” (2021-2023; PI: Tinca Prunea)
Calls:
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships in Early Modern Thought at the University of Bucharest – Expressions of Interest
The research group in Early Modern Thought at the University of Bucharest
invites expressions of interest from candidates wishing to apply for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship in Early Modern Science, Philosophy, and/ or Intellectual History. Information about the 2021 call will be soon available at the following link:
https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/node_en.
We are a very active interdisciplinary group of scholars working on a variety of aspects of the Renaissance and the early modern period (philosophy, literature, religion, science, etc.). Our members do research and teach in several faculties at the University of Bucharest (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest-ICUB). We coordinate various research projects, and we organize early modern conferences and colloquia in Early Modern Philosophy and Early Modern Science, including the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. The working atmosphere is very friendly and supportive, and we are committed to international events.
The list of potential mentors for the MSCA application include: Vlad Alexandrescu, Corina Anton, Sorana Corneanu, Mihnea Dobre, Smaranda Elian, Dana Jalobeanu, Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Silvia Ștefan.
We are looking for candidates working on any topic related to the early modernity (broadly conceived) and highly determined to be involved in the dynamic group we have built in Bucharest. Potential applicants are invited to submit the following documents: (1) full CV (including publications); (2) an outline proposal of no more than 1000 words.
Please send the material to Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@filosofie.unibuc.ro) and Mihnea Dobre (mihnea.dobre@unibuc.ro) by May 20; decisions will be communicated by June 1.
For any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us!
- Internship at the Early Modern Cluster
The research group in early modern thought at the University of Bucharest is looking for highly motivated graduates (undergraduates are also encouraged to apply) interested in the early modern period (broadly conceived) to act as interns for the next academic term. We are searching for an intern to help us develop the website (WordPress) and to be active in disseminating the work of the group. Depending on the technical skill and involvement of the candidates, we can extend the collaboration to other digital-related activities.
In order to apply, please send a CV and a motivation letter (max. 1-page each) to Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@filosofie.unibuc.ro) and Mihnea Dobre (mihnea.dobre@unibuc.ro).
CFP JEMS Special Issues Spring-Fall 2023
The Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS), ISSN: 2285-6382 (paperback), ISSN: 2286-0290 (electronic), edited by the Foundations of Modern Thought Research Centre, University of Bucharest, welcomes proposals for its Spring and Fall 2023 Special Issues. Prospective guest editors are invited to explore any topic pertinent to JEMS’s general interest in cross-disciplinary approaches to early modern thought that draw on intellectual history, history of philosophy and history of science. The main language of the journal is English, although contributions in French are also accepted. JEMS is a double blind peer-reviewed journal, currently indexed in Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index, ERIH+, EBSCO, Philosophy Research Index, PhilPapers.
Please prepare proposals that contain the following:
- A description of the topic (up to 1200 words)
- A table of contents (6-8 articles of 8000 words each)
- Short abstracts of the contributions (up to 300 words each)
- Short bios of the editors and contributors
- A timeline of manuscript submission
The deadline for submission of proposals for either of the two issues is October 1, 2021.
Please send your queries and your proposals to jems@zetabooks.com.
For further details about JEMS, please visit https://zetabooks.com/library/journals/journal-of-early-modern-studies/.
CFP JEMS 2021
Bran 2015
BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR
IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
15th Edition
Organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought (FME), University of Bucharest, in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at Princeton University
12 – 17 July 2015
Bran, Romania
Bran, Romania
Philosophical Conversations:
Intellectual Interactions in the 17th Century
The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is an international annual meeting of scholars interested in various aspects of early modern thought. The aim of the seminar is to create a stimulating environment for discussing papers and ideas. It includes workshops in the morning and presentations of papers in the afternoon, where participants can present work in progress. While the morning sessions will focus on the theme of “Philosophical Conversations: Intellectual Interactions in the 17th Century,” the afternoon sessions seek to give participants an opportunity to discuss their own special interests with an open and sympathetic audience of students and scholars with broad interests in early modern thought. Throughout we try to maintain a balance between the high scholarly level and the informal friendly spirit of a colloquium.
The Seminar will take place in Bran, a small mountain resort near Brasov, in Transylvania. It will be hosted in a small, friendly Bed and Breakfast (single or double rooms). The participation fee is 250 EUR for faculty and 150 EUR for students (covering accommodation with breakfast). There will be a certain number of scholarships for participants; please indicate on your application if you would like to be considered. We invite applications for contributions (from researchers) and for attendance (from students). Researchers are strongly encouraged to contribute papers, though not required. While the morning sessions will focus on the announced theme of the workshop, contributed papers may be about any subject in early-modern philosophy and/or science. If you want to contribute a paper, please send a CV and a one-page abstract, and if you want to attend, a CV and a letter of intent – by May 2th – to Vlad Alexandrescu (valexandrescu@gmail.com), Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro).
Programme Bran 2014
Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Bran, 8–13 July 2014
De rerum natura: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism
Programme
Tuesday, 8 July
9.30 Departure to Bran from Hotel Flowers, Plantelor str. 2, Bucharest (lunch on the way in Brașov)
17.00 Arrival in Bran (Vila Andra)
19.00 Dinner
Wednesday, 9 July
10.00-10.40 Enrico Pasini (Turin): The development of physics/philosophy of nature between Copernicus and Galilei
10.40-10.55 Coffee break
10.55-13.00 Reading group (I): Naturalism: Cardano, Telesio and Bacon
Convenors: Daniel Garber, Mihnea Dobre, Doina-Cristina Rusu
Texts: Cardano, De subtilitate II (fragments); Telesio, On the Nature of Things (Chaps. 8-16); Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, experiments 800-830 (SEH II 602-609), 30-32 (SEH II 351-353); Bacon, Novum organum II (OFB XI 221-253).
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
Section 1
16.00-16.35 Doina-Cristina Rusu (Bucharest): Naturalizing the unnatural in Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum: the power of imagination to create forms
16.35-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-17.25 Oana Matei (Bucharest/Arad): The use of experiment with plants in Francis Bacon’s Syla Sylvarum V
17.25-18.00 Claudia Dumitru (Bucharest): Sounds and Spirits in Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
Section 2
16.00-16.40 Aaron Spink (South Florida): Descartes: knowing passions and clueless minds
16.40-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-17.40 Daniel Colette (South Florida): Passions embodied: Descartes’ ethics in the Letters to Elisabeth revisited
19.30 Dinner
Thursday, 10 July
9.15-9.50 Tamàs Pavlovits (Szeged) : La perception de l’infini et la nature de l’esprit chez Descartes
9.50-10.40 Igor Agostini (Lecce): Descartes and More on the infinity of the world
10.40-10.55 Coffee break
10.55-13.00 Reading group (II): Descartes and supernaturalism
Convenors: Vlad Alexandrescu, Grigore Vida, Daniel Garber
Texts: Descartes to X, September 1629 (AT I 21); to X, early 1638? (Clerselier II 159); to Morin, 12 September 1638 (AT II 365); to Mersenne, 19 June 1639 (AT II 557-558); to Elisabeth, November 1646 (AT IV 531-532); to Mersenne, 25 January 1647 (AT IV 593-594); to Silhon, March or April 1648 (AT V 136-137); Descartes, Cogitationes privatæ (AT X 218); Le Monde (AT XI 443); Principes de la philosophie, art. 187 (AT IX-2 308-309); Annotationes in sua Principia philosophiæ (AT XI 654)
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
Section 1
16.00-16.40 Sarah Ellenzweig (Rice, English): Richard Bentley’s Boyle Lectures and the Epicurean void
16.40-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-17.40 Veronika Szànto (Budapest): Margaret’s Cavendish’s hierachical vitalism
Section 2
16.00-16.35 Ed Slowik (Winona State): The ‘situation’ of the unextended in Leibniz’s immaterialist metaphysics
16.35-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-17.25 Andrea Strazzoni (Rotterdam): The concept of nature in early modern Dutch philosophy
17.25-18.00 Rodolfo Garau (UniTo/MPIWG Berlin): Gassendi’s experimental naturalization of astrology
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 11 July
9.15-9.50 Olivier Dubouclez (Liège): Fascination as a case of action at a distance in Early Modern science
9.50-10.40 Jennifer Rampling (Princeton): Alchemy, theory of matter and natural magic
10.40-10.55 Coffee break
10.55-13.00 Reading group (III): Heaven on Earth: Celestial Virtues in Early Modern Astrology and Alchemy
Convenors: Jennifer Rampling (Princeton), Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent)
Texts: Basic readings: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Ia.q105.a3-4; Cornelius Agrippa, On Occult Philosophy, book I (chapter 12-16; chapters 1-11 highly recommended); Pierre Bayle, Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet, selected passages; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quintae essentiae, selected passages; ps.-Ramòn Lull, Novum Testamentum, selected passages;
Additional readings: Cornelius Agrippa, On Occult Philosophy, book III (chapters 3-9); Joshua Childrey, Indago Astrologica, selected passages; John Goad, Astro-Meteorologica, selected passages.
13.00-15.00 Lunch break
Section 1
16.00-16.35: Alison Peterman (Rochester): Spinoza on the common notions
16.35-16.50 Coffee break
16.50-17.25 Michael A. Rosenthal (Washington): Spinoza on beings of reason
17.25-18.00 Raphael Krut-Landau (Princeton/ENS): Spinoza’s naturalism about the emotions
Section 2
16.00-16.40 Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent): Medical Epicureanism and Philosophical Epicureanism: La Mettrie and Diderot
16.40-17.00 Coffee break
17.00 -17.40 Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (NEC Bucharest): Baumgarten’s conception of the transcendental and its role in Kantian philosophy
19.00 Dinner
Saturday, 12 July
9.15-9.50 Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent) : L’analyse de Michel de Certeau du croire et les avantages possibles pour l’étude historique des rapports entre la science et la religion
9.50-10.40 Roger Ariew (South Florida) : Leibniz and the Petrifying Virtue of the Place
10.40-10.55 Coffee break
10.55-13.00 Reading group (IV): Naturalism in Spinoza and Leibniz
Convenors: Daniel Garber, Roger Ariew, Yitzhak Melamed, Michael Rosenthal
Texts: Spinoza, Ethics, part I, particularly props. 15&S, 16, 17, 18, 28-33, appendix; part III, pref.; part IV, pref. (note also the version of E1p18 from the Opera Posthuma in a separate file); Spinoza, Short Treatise (KV) I.4; Spinoza, TTP chapt 6, note; Leibniz, “Two Sects of Naturalists”; Leibniz, “On Nature Itself”
13.00-15.00 Lunch
16.00-16.40 Peter Anstey (Sydney): Early modern experimental philosophy and the principles of religion
16.40-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-17.40 Justin E. Smith (Paris) : The Unity of human species in Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant
18.00 Dinner
Sunday, 13 July
9.30 Departure to Bucharest
This Seminar is supported by two research grants of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0998: Models of Producing and Disseminating Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: the Cartesian Framework and project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0719: From Natural History to Science: the emergence of experimental philosophy.
List of participants Bran 2014
BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
8– 13 July 2014
De rerum natura: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism
Participants:
1. Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
2. Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)
3. Igor Agostini (Università del Salento) –
4. Peter Anstey (Sydney)
5. Olivier Dubouclez (Liège)
6. Justin E.H. Smith (Paris)
7. Tamás Pavlovits (Szeged)
8. Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University)
9. Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent University)
10. Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent University)
11. Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest)
12. Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest)
13. Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
14. Grigore Vida (New Europe College, Bucharest)
15. Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest)
16. Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
17. Oana Matei (Vasile Goldis University of Arad)
18. Aaron Spink (University of South Florida)
19. Rafael Krut-Landau (Princeton University)
20. Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington)
21. Ed Slowick (Winona State University)
22. Rodolfo Garau (Università degli studi di Torino)
23. Sarah Ellenzweig (Rice University)
24. Enrico Pasini (Università degli studi di Torino)
25. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (New Europe College, Bucharest)
26. Daniel Collette (University of South Florida)
27. Alison Peterman (University of Rochester)
28. Andrea Strazzoni (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
29. Veronika Szanto (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
BUCHAREST-PRINCETON SEMINAR
IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
14th Edition
Organized by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought (FME), University of Bucharest, in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at Princeton University
8–13 July 2014
Bran, Romania
Bran, Romania
De rerum natura: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism
Invited speakers include: Daniel Garber (Princeton), Roger Ariew (South Florida), Igor Agostini (Università del Salento), Peter Anstey (Sydney), Olivier Dubouclez (Liège), Justin E.H. Smith (Paris), Tamás Pavlovits (Szeged), Jennifer Rampling (Princeton), Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent).
List of participants
Programme
List of participants
Programme
This seminar is concerned with early-modern conceptions of nature in the broadest sense. We will inquire into definitions of the natural and of what lies beyond or goes against it within several quarters of early modern thought, from the late Renaissance up to the early eighteenth century. In line with the important influence that Lucretius’s great Epicurean poem, “De rerum natura,” had at the time, we will raise the issue of naturalism, and attempts in figures as diverse as Cardano, Telesio, Bacon, Hobbes, or Spinoza to explain everything or nearly everything in naturalistic terms. The Epicurean, as well as Stoic and Platonic, influences are also at work in the traditions of natural history, from Pliny to Bacon and beyond, as well as in the new trends of medicine, natural magic, astrology, and alchemy, where reflections on the scope of the natural went hand in hand with practical thinking about technological and experimental intervention into nature. Drawing the boundaries of the natural and exploring the territory of the un-natural, preter-natural or contra-natural (whether in the form of ghosts, demons, monsters, or diseases) was also a powerful early modern concern. There was also the key development of new definitions of nature articulated in terms of natural laws and of their relationship with God, as well as discussions of the infinite and the finite with reference to both the natural and the super-natural worlds, such as in Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, or Newton. Whether committed to vital(ist) or to mechanical frames of thought, and whether using the instruments of physics, metaphysics, or mathematics, of medicine, alchemy, or the interventionist arts, these early modern inquiries asked fundamental questions about the boundaries of the natural, the structure and potential of matter, the status of the mind and the status of the human being with respect to nature.
The Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy is an international annual meeting of scholars interested in various aspects of early modern thought. The aim of the seminar is to create a stimulating environment for discussing papers and ideas. It includes workshops in the morning and presentations of papers in the afternoon, where participants can present work in progress. While the morning sessions will focus on the theme of “De rerum natura: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism,” the afternoon sessions seek to give participants the opportunity to discuss their own special interests with an open and sympathetic audience of students and scholars with broad interests in early modern thought. Throughout we try to maintain a balance between the high scholarly level and the informal friendly spirit of a colloquium.
The Seminar will take place in Bran, a small mountain resort near Brasov, in Transylvania. It will be hosted in a small, friendly Bed and Breakfast (single or double rooms). The participation fee is 150 EUR for faculty and 90 EUR for students (covering accommodation with breakfast). We invite applications for contributions (from researchers) and for attendance (from students). If you want to contribute a paper, please send a CV and a one-page abstract, and if you want to attend, a CV and a letter of intent — by April 20 — to Vlad Alexandrescu (valexandrescu@gmail.com) and Dana Jalobeanu (dana.jalobeanu@celfis.ro).
Colloque J.L. Marion
L’Université de Bucarest – Faculté de Philosophie
Société Roumaine de Phénoménologie
Centre d’études phénoménologiques
Centre « Fondements de la Modernité Européenne »
vous invitent
Jeudi et Vendredi les 10 et 11 octobre
au colloque
« Lectures de Jean-Luc Marion »
Faculté de Philosophie, Université de Bucarest
(Splaiul Independenței nr. 204, Amphithéâtre « Mircea Florian »)
JEUDI 10 OCTOBRE
Cristian Ciocan: Ouverture(10h00)
Anca Vasiliu: Jean-Luc Marion: le visible, le donné, l’acte. La philosophie de la donation entre métaphysique et phénoménologie
Première Session (11h00)
Modérateur: Anca Vasiliu
Georgiana Huian : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur d’Augustin
Marilena Vlad: Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Denys l\’Aréopagite
Florin Crîșmareanu : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Maxime le Confesseur
Jean-Luc Marion : Réponses
Deuxième Session (15h30)
Modérateur: Cristian Ciocan
Alexander Baumgarten : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur d’Anselme
Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Thomas d’Aquin
Vlad Alexandrescu : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Descartes
Călin Cristian Pop : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Pascal
Cristian Moisuc : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Malebranche
Jean-Luc Marion : Réponses
VENDREDI 11 OCTOMBRIE 2013
Troisième Session (10h00)
Modérateur: Vlad Alexandrescu
Claudia Șerban : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Kant
George Bondor : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Nietzsche
Delia Popa : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Husserl
Bogdan Mincă : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Heidegger
Jean-Luc Marion : Réponses
Quatrième Session (15h30)
Modérateur: Claudia Șerban
Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Hans Urs von Balthasar
Cristian Ciocan : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Levinas
Sorin Ovidiu Podar : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Michel Henry
Paul Marinescu : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Paul Ricoeur
Ovidiu Stanciu : Jean-Luc Marion lecteur de Derrida
Jean-Luc Marion : Réponses et Conclusions