Suomen 1700-luvun tutkimuksen seura järjestää Tieteiden talossa Helsingissä
17.–18.10.2008 kansainvälisen valistusseminaarin, ”The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia”. Tilaisuuden ulkomaisina pääpuhujina ovat Jean Marie Goulemot sekä Miguel Benítez.
Kahvitarjoilun vuoksi pyydämme osallistujia ilmoittautumaan 13.10. mennessä sähköpostitse osoitteeseen: minna.ahokas (at) helsinki.fi
Lisätietoja seminaarista seuran kotisivuilla:
http://www.helsinki.fi/historia/1700/su/dokum/enlightenment.htm
PROGRAMME:
The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia
International symposium, 17th and 18th October 2008, Helsinki.
Tieteiden talo / House of the Sciences, Kirkkokatu 6
Friday 17th October
9.00 Opening words (Hall 104)
9.15-10.15 WORKSHOP 1: The French Connection, part I (Hall 104). Chair: Petter Korkman
Olivier Tonneau (Homerton College, Cambridge): Diderot and Virtue Ethics
Logan Connors (Louisiana State University): Philosophes, encyclopédistes, or playwrights?
Blurring criticisms in Charles Palissot’s La Comédie des philosophes (1760)
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.45 Keynote lecture (Hall 104)
Jean Marie Goulemot (University of Tours): Les Lumières en politique (XVIIIe –XXesiècles). Chair: Charlotta Wolff
11.45-13.00 Lunch
13.00-15.00 WORKSHOP 1, part II and WORKSHOP 2 (Hall 404). Chair: Petter Korkman
Workshop 1: The French Connection, part II.
Ville Lähde (University of Tampere): Rousseau’s Natural Man as the Critic of Urbanised Society
Suvi Leppämäki (University of Helsinki): Jean Guéhenno and the Enlightenment tradition
Workshop 2: Between East and West.
Tatyana Artemyeva (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia): Epistemological Utopias of Russian Enlightenment
Dragana Grbic (The Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia): Between East and West - Enlightenment in The Balkans
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 WORKSHOP 3 (Hall 404): Religion and theology. Chair: Pasi Ihalainen
Jarmo Pulkkinen (University of Oulu): Belief vs. Reason as a Source of Knowledge: Christian Wolff and Pietist Theologians
Ilona Salomaa (University of Helsinki): In David Hume’s Day: Religion, Society and the New “Science of Man”,
Lassi Larjo (University of Helsink): Person and Revelation: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Critique of the Enlightenment
17.00-18.00 Keynote lecture (Hall 104).
Miguel Benítez (University of Seville): ’A gigantic manifestation of spinozism'?: Spinoza
dans la littérature clandestine. Chair: Timo Kaitaro
Saturday 18th October
9.00-10.30 WORKSHOP 4 (Hall 404): Politics and Education. Chair: Kari Saastamoinen
Pasi Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä): Parliamentary debates as a way towards modern ‘democracy’: Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands in the late eighteenth century
Zefiryna Żegnałek (University of Łódź, Poland): Mary Wollstonecraft’s and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Views on Society and Education. Ancient or Contemporary?
Kristian Keto (University of Helsinki): The Enlightenment and “Mündigkeit”. Contact with reality in the case of conscription in the Nordic countries during the second half of the 19th century.
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Keynote lecture (Hall 505).
Timo Kaitaro (University of Helsinki): Nature and Morality in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism. Chair : Pasi Ihalainen
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 WORKSHOP 5 (Hall 404): Kantian Themes. Chair: Timo Kaitaro
Vesa Oittinen (University of Helsinki): Ein Radikaler Aufklärer zwishen Kant un Hume: Peter Forskål
Carl Christoph Claussen (University of Vienna): Kant and Hamann: Language and the nature of enlightenment
Karianne Marx (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Reinhold’s Enlightenment and practical reason
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.30 WORKSHOP 6 (Hall 404): Ambivalence and Diversity. Chair: Mikko Lahtinen
Peggy Heller (University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada): Adam Ferguson’s Ambivalent Enlightenment
Asko Nivala (University of Turku): Friedrich Schlegel and the principles of the
Enlightenment
Jouko Nurmiainen (University of Helsinki): The Idea of “Our Enlightened Times” in Swedish Eighteenth-Century History Writing
Junichi Toyota (Lund University, Sweden): The “Light” and the process of the cognition (joint paper with Dragana Grbic)