Event Description
The Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies – IMEMS at Durham University will host a webinar entitled “Debating Intellectual Change in Early Modern Europe (16th – 18th centuries).”
Stephen Taylor (Durham University, IMEMS Director) – Introduction
Giorgio Caravale (University of Roma Tre) – Censorship as an Agent of Change? Early Modern Italy and the Role of the Church
Franz L. Fillafer (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – The Chrono- and Geopolitics of Enlightenment
Ruth Hill (Vanderbilt University) – How the Others Became the Norm: Spain, Portugal, and the ‘New’ Models of ‘European’ Scientific Modernity
Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute) – Ancient Climate Theories in Early Modern Europe: Continuity and Change
Andrea Strazzoni (Università Cà Foscari, Venezia) – Natural Philosophy in Early Cartesian Dictata (1650s–1660s)
Alexis Tadié (Sorbonne) – English Prose and its Relations with the Continent at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Chair/moderator: Marco Barducci (University of Pavia/IMEMS)
Thursday 6 July 2023, 15:00 BST
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