International Conference, University of Bucharest, 3-4 November 2023
Venue: 7-13 Pitar Moș St. (and online)
Sala de Consiliu (3 November) British Cultural Studies Centre (4 November)
Programme
All times are Bucharest times (UTC/GMT +2)
Friday, 3 November 2023
(Room: Sala de Consiliu)
09:45 – Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
10:00-11:00 – Avi Lifschitz (University of Oxford), Frederick the Great at the limits of Enlightenment
11:00-11:15 – Coffee break
11:15-12:15 – Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), “To be in error is our lot in life”: Frederick and the controversy over prejudices
12:15-14:15 – Lunch break
Chair: Sorana Corneanu
14:15-15:15 – Henny Blomme (University of Brussels), Frederick on the innocence of errors of the mind
15:15-15:30 – Coffee break
15:30-16:30 – Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest/Romanian Academy), “En le faisant raisonner lui-même”: Frederick on the autonomy of reason and the philosophical spirit
16:30-16:50 – Coffee break
16:50-17:50 – Stephen Howard (University of Leuven), Frederick, Kant, deception, and Enlightenment
19:00 Conference dinner
Saturday, 4 November 2023
(Room: British Cultural Studies Centre)
Chair: Alexandra Bacalu
09:30-10:30 – François Duchesneau (University of Montreal), Maupertuis’s last memoir to the Berlin Academy: epilogue to a scientific controversy
10:30-10:45 – Coffee break
10:45-11:45 – Fritz Nagel (University of Basel), Frederick the Great, the Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler. Some modest remarks concerning the King’s attitude towards science and scientists
11:45-12:00 – Coffee break
12:00-13:00 – Alessandro Nannini (University of Bucharest), “Viel Glück zum neuen collegio”! Frederick the Great, Wolffianism and Meier’s course on Locke
13:00-14:30 – Lunch break
Chair: Alessandro Nannini
14:30-15:30 – Jan Forsman (University of Iowa) and Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere University), The Prince and the Philosopher: Frederick and Émilie Du Châtelet’s “On Freedom”
15-30-15:45 – Coffee break
15:45-16:45 – Richard Elliott (University of London), Nietzsche’s Frederick the Great: the will to deceive, and tensions in the Enlightenment project
16:45-17:15 – Coffee break
17:15-18:30 – Discussion of Alessandro Nannini’s book Il segno e l’immagine. Estetica e semiotica delle arti da Du Bos a Lessing (Mimesis, 2023) with Márcio Suzuki (University of São Paulo) (in English)
Conference venue: 7-13 Pitar Mos Str., Bucharest
Zoom link available from
tinca.prunea@icub.unibuc.ro or alessandro.nannini@icub.unibuc.ro
A conference from the UEFISCDI research grant Between Truth and Freedom: Enlightenment Answers to Thinking for Oneself (code 105/2021)
organized by Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Alessandro Nannini