[H-verkko] Helsinki, The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia

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The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia
Helsinki 17.10.2008 klo 09:00 - 18.10.2008 klo 17:30

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 tilaisuudesta 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 –XXe siècles). 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)

Suomen 1700-luvun tutkimuksen seura (
http://www.helsinki.fi/historia/1700/su/dokum/enlightenment.htm )

Tiedustelut:
Minna Ahokas <minna.ahokas at helsinki.fi> 

Ilmoituksen lähetti:
 Minna Ahokas <minna.ahokas at helsinki.fi> 
29.9.2008 10:19

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