Conference Schedule

Day 1 – 5 May
09:20-09:30 Introductory Remarks
09:30-10:30 Session 1: Learned Societies in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chair: John Robertson
Eleá de la Porte (RU Nijmegen)
‘Beyond the Ars Historica. The Role of Dutch Societies in Shaping Historical Thought, 1750-1800’
Maria Floruțău (Oxford)
‘The Berlin Academy 1779 Speculative Class Essay Competition and the Philosophical Genre of the Enlightenment Academic Prize Contests’

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 Session 2: Learning Frameworks and their Afterlives
Chair: Noel Malcolm
Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford)
‘Christ Church, Oxford, Anglican Moral Theology, and the Reception of John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1689-1714’
Dmitri Levitin (Oxford)
‘Theological Disputations and Intellectual Change in Early Modern Europe. Some New Evidence’
Lewis Ashman (Edinburgh)
‘David Gregory’s Astronomical City: Newton’s Principia and the Problems of Philosophy’

12:15-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:00 Keynote: Raphaële Garrod (Oxford)
‘Rabelaisian Conjecture (Medicine-Philology-Poetry)’

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-16:30 Session 3: Godly Institutions and Godly Ideas
Chair: Kirsten Macfarlane
Jarrik Van Der Biest (KU Leuven)
‘From Cathedral of Scholasticism to Bulwark of Positive Theology? Re-shaping the Intellectual Formation of the Louvain Faculty of Theology in the Sixteenth Century’
Eloise Davies (Oxford)
‘A Training Ground for Godly Diplomacy: Cambridge’s ‘Puritan’ Colleges on the European Confessional Stage, 1603-1625’

16:30-16:45 Break

16:45-18:15 Session 4: Finding a Home for Natural Knowledge
Chair: Richard Oosterhoff
Daniel Fried (Oxford)
‘Robert Sharrock (1630-84): the Varying Institutional Commitments of Robert Boyle’s Sometime Editor’
René Winkler (Edinburgh)
‘Defending Natural History – Sir Robert Sibbald and the Vindiciae Scotiae Illustratae (1710)’
Will Poole (Oxford)
‘Oxford’s Anatomy School c. 1630-c.1780: Institutional History and Disciplinary Change’