PMP research seminar (http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/pmp/index.htm) continues on next Wednesday with the following programme:
Wednesday, 12 May, 12.45-16
(Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24 [Helsinki], Seminar Room 136, ground floor)
Hopes of an enlightened civilisation
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm 1st Session
Chair: S-J Savonius-Wroth
T. J. Hochstrasser (LSE, London) – ‘Leibniz and Pufendorf revisited: natural law theory and confessional reunion’
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Coffee & Tea
2:20 pm – 4 pm 2nd Session
Chair: Markku Peltonen
Kari Saastamoinen (Helsinki) – ‘Locke and basic equality’
Chair: Virpi Mäkinen
Petter Korkman (Helsinki) – ‘Love and law in the early Enlightenment’
For more information, please contact: Sami Savonius-Wroth
Please, note also the seminar in June:
Wednesday, 2 June, 12-14
(Auditorium II, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34 [Helsinki], 2nd floor)
Justin E.H. Smith (Montreal), Ethnolinguistics as Theodicy in Leibniz's Correspondence with Peter the Great
[see our calendar entry http://filosofia.fi/node/5253 for more details on Smith's presentation, updated 10.5.2010]