Seen on the Classicists list:
Lucretius in the European Enlightenment
A Conference hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
The University of Edinburgh3 – 4 September 2009
For more information, see
http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/lucretius09/index.htmlProgramme:
Thursday 3 September
Venue: Old High School, Infirmary Street
9:00 Registration
9:20 Opening: Thomas Ahnert, Hannah Dawson, Michael Lurie
Chair: Dr Michael Lurie
9:40 Mr. David Butterfield (Cambridge):
‘Lucretius’ De rerum natura and classical scholarship in the eighteenth century’
10:40 Tea and Coffee
Chair: Dr Thomas Ahnert
11:10 Prof. Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale):
‘Pierre Bayle’s Lucretius’
Chair: Dr Hannah Dawson
12:10 Dr James Harris (St. Andrews):
‘Of shipwrecks and sympathy: Lucretius, Hume, and the pleasures of tragedy’
1:10 Lunch
Chair: Dr Tim Hochstrasser
2:30 Prof. Ann Thomson (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-St. Denis):
‘Lucretius and la Mettrie’
Chair: Dr Thomas Ahnert
3:30 Dr Tim Hochstrasser (London School of Economics and Political Science):
‘The role of Lucretius in Diderot’s later political thought’
4:30 Tea and Coffee
Chair: Prof. Ernst A. Schmidt
5:00 Prof. Alan Charles Kors (University of Pennsylvania):
‘Lucretius and d’Holbach’
6:00 Reception
8:00 Dinner at La Garrigue, 31 Jeffrey Street
Friday 4 September
Venue: Old High School, Infirmary Street
Chair: Prof. Gianni Paganini
9:30 Prof. Piet H. Schrijvers (Leiden):
‘Lucretius in the Dutch Enlightenment’
10:30 Tea and Coffee
Chair: Dr John Robertson
11:00 Prof. Andrew Laird (Warwick):
‘Lucretius and Spanish Jesuit culture after the Bourbon Reforms: Diego José Abad and Rafael Landívar in Italy’
Chair: Prof. Alan Charles Kors
12:00 Prof. Wolfgang Pross (Berne):
‘»Atheorum antistes et oraculum«: Enemies of Lucretius in the European Enlightenment’
1:00 Lunch
Chair: Dr Hannah Dawson
2:30 Dr Avi Lifshitz (University College London):
‘Lucretius and German debates over the origins of language, c. 1750’
Chair: Dr Avi Lifshitz
3:30 Dr Mario Marino (Jena):
‘Herder and Lucretius’
4:30 Tea and Coffee
Chair: Dr Michael Lurie
5:00 Prof. Ernst A. Schmidt (Tübingen):
‘Wieland and Lucretius’
Chairs: Thomas Ahnert, Hannah Dawson, Michael Lurie
6:00 Final Discussion
8:00 Dinner at The Home Bistro, 41 West Nicolson Street
Dr Michael Lurie
Classics
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
Scotland
Office: +44 (0)131 650 35 88
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 17 83
Email: michael.lurie AT ed.ac.uk
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