16-18 March 2020, Research Institute of the University of Bucharest Venue: ICUB Humanities, 1 Dimitrie Brandza Str., Bucharest How do philosophers approach the history of their discipline? While it is obvious that some knowledge of the historical development of philosophy is essential in order to engage in philosophy today, scholars do not agree on the […]

Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 18h – Alain Touwaide (UCLA), There are Traditions and Traditions: A Comparative Study of Byzantine Materia Medica Alain Touwaide earned a PhD in Classics at the University of Louvain (Belgium, 1981) and a Habilitation à diriger des recherches in Ancient and Medieval History at the University of Toulouse (France, 1997). He researches the history of ancient science, particularly […]

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Department of Romance, Classical and Modern Greek Languages and Literatures Bucharest, 19th-20th June 2020               It is well known that the cultures of the Iberian Peninsula have been depicted from a variety of perspectives, but often as a peripheral border zone both separating and connecting Europe, […]

The ERC Group Early Modern Cosmology (based at Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, GA n. 725883), in partnership with the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, invites applications for the summer symposium Heavens on Trial.  Venice and the Venetian Alps, June 15-20, 2020  Early modernity was the stage of heated cosmological debates. These, far from […]

ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest, 19 December 2019 The reception of Cartesian cosmology in the second half of the seventeenth century was not an easy one. It varied from fast adoption and identification with the philosophical narration of the Biblical cosmogony, to open accusations of atheism. Moreover, the mechanization of the celestial phenomena was equally worrisome for religious […]