The lunchtime seminar is the current research seminar of the Humanities Division of the ICUB, in which fellows and affiliated researchers are presenting work-in-progress. It takes place every Thursday during term-time (October-June). The seminar begins at 1.30 pm with an informal brown-bag lunch. From 2 pm, the speaker has 45 minutes to present their work in progress, followed by 30 minutes of discussions. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a collegial, interdisciplinary and competitive environment in which scholars can try and test their ideas and sharpen their arguments. The seminar is open to fellows of the Institute and associate researchers and their guests.
Venue
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 14.00 – Larisa Avram (University of Bucharest), Bianca-Elena Babei-Popa (University of Bucharest), Language-internal and language-external factors in the acquisition and maintenance of heritage languages
Thursday, 06 February 2025, 14.00 – Andreea Popescu (ICUB Fellow), Conceptually engineering gender terms
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 11.30 – Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Living in the Past: Confessions of an Intellectual Tourist
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 14.00 – Argyrios Tasoulas (ICUB Fellow), Soviet intelligence archives on the Cyprus issue
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 14.00 – Virginia Hill (ICUB Visiting Professor), Romanian languages differential object marking and diachrony
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 14.00 – Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest), The Treatise on the Government of Thoughts in the Seventeenth Century: Rearticulating the Imagination and its Remedies
Thursday, 07 December 2023, 14.00 – Marcos Cortés Guadarrama (ICUB Visiting Professor), From the Narratives of the Medicine (16th-18th centuries) to the Spiritism (19th century) The meeting will take place ONLINE
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 14.00 – Raluca Bujor (ICUB Fellow), Philosophical discourse, freedom and skholē in the Theaetetus
Thursday, 11 January 2024, 14.00 – Ana Honcu (ICUB Fellow), ArcGIS for studying the origin of veterans from the province of Upper Moesia
Thursday, 25 January 2024, 14.00 – Matei Iagher (ICUB Fellow), Eliade and the myth of the eternal return – The meeting will take place ONLINE
Thursday, 01 February 2024, 14.00 – Ruben Noorloos (ICUB Fellow), Spinoza on Number and Numerical Identity
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 14.00 – Silvia Manzo (ICUB Visiting Professor), Francis Bacon’s nomological network
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 14.00 – Giulia Zava ( ICUB Fellow), First investigations on the iconography of vernacular canzonieri in 15th-century Italy
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 14.00, Camelia Crăciun (University of Bucharest), The Vilna Trupe in Interwar Romania: Between National and Transnational
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 14.00, Arleen Ionescu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), New Ways of Exploring Memory in the 21st Century
Thursday, 06 June 2024, 14.00, Argyrios Tasoulas (ICUB Fellow), Andreas Stergiou (University of Thessaly), Soviet Naval Presence in The Mediterranean During The Cold War
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 14.00 – Hiro Hirai (Columbia University), The Medical Context of the Scientific Revolution: Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates
Thursday, 03 November 2022, 14.00 – Barbara di Gennaro (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Theriac and Mithridate. Antidotes From and For the State
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 14.00 – Miklos Redei (London School of Economics), Imre Lakatos 1922-1974 – comments on his life and work
Abstract: After fleeing Hungary in 1956, Imre Lakatos made an international career and became a leading figure in 20th century philosophy of science as a professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, and based in part of archival material in the Lakatos Papers at the LSE library, the talk recalls some episodes of his controversial life and personality, commenting also on his philosophy of science.
Thursday, 08 December 2022, 14.00 – Anamaria Schwab (ICUB Humanities Fellow), How to Content Yourself with Less: D. H. Lawrence’s Practical Guide to Sustainable Living in Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Lost Girl
Thursday, 12 January 2023, 14.00 – Alexandra Ilina (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Editorial practices and diafilms – a comparative approach
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 14.00 – Anca Meirosu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Solitude and Sufferance in Secretum (Petrarch)
Thursday, 02 March 2023, 14.00 – Andreea Popescu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Reference and Institutions
Thursday, 02 December 2021, 14h – Michal Wasiucionek (ICUB Humanities fellow), Document as Performance: On the Cultures of Reading Documents in the Early Modern Ottoman Domains
Thursday, 20 January 2022, 14h – Matei Iagher (ICUB Humanities fellow), Mircea Eliade and the History of Higher Consciousness
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 14h – Marco Faini (ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Marvelous Crimes. Crime, Criminals, and Popular Print in Early Modern Italy (XVI-XVIII centuries)
Thursday, 03 March 2022, 14h – Răzvan Voinea (ICUB Humanities fellow), Prefab socialism: a social history of Floreasca District in Bucharest (1954-1965)
Thursday, 17 March 2022, 14h – Anita Paolicchi (ICUB Humanities fellow), The Eucharistic dove: a rare object in Southeast Europe
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 14h – Paula Tomi (ICUB Humanities fellow), A Sketch of Metaphysical Deflationism
Thursday, 14 April 2022,14h – Michael S Jones (ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Lucian Blaga’s A Historical Being: An Exposition
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 14h – Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter / ICUB Alumna), Demonstrations, Definitions and Newton’s Experimental Philosophy – this talk is part of the workshop Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science and it takes place at ICUB Humanities, Dimitrie Brândza 1.
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 14h – Andrei Dan Sorescu (ICUB Humanities fellow), Exclusion by Analogy? Anti-Chinese Legislation and Late Nineteenth Century (Central) European anti-Semitism
Thursday, 26 May 2022, 14h – Andrei Mărășoiu (University of Bucharest / ICUB Alumnus), Counterfactuals in historical narratives
Abstract. A long-standing methodological debate concerns whether (good) history needs to involve counterfactuals. My contribution to this debate is twofold. First, I survey some of the reasons given in favor of thinking that counterfactuals are necessary for (good) historical narratives, and find that such reasons are not compelling. Second, I offer a diagnosis of what the debate is: each side of the debate relies on a plausible intuition, but the two sides construe counterfactuals differently, so the debate equivocates. For friends of counterfactuals, these are devices without which our everyday speaking and thinking would be severely impoverished. Those who think historical discourse can (in principle) be purged of counterfactuals must be construing them differently, as an appeal to circumstances that never actually occurred; and it is sensible to think that appeal to what didn’t happen can’t clarify what did happen.
Thursday, 02 June 2022, 14h – Valeska Bopp-Filimonov (ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Saddening Encounters. Children and Animals in Romanian Fiction and beyond
Thursday, 16 June 2022, 14h – Laura Demeter (University of Bamberg), Conflict as Resource for Heritage Transformation in Eastern European Cities. Focus on War-Damaged Romanian Cities at the Beginning of the 20th Century – POSTPONED
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 14h – A Roundtable Discussion on Grants, Fellowships, Applications
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 14h – Michal Wasiucionek (ICUB Humanities fellow), Morphology, Literacy and Scribal Culture: Moldavian Documents as a Trans-Cultural Phenomenon in the Early Modern Period
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 14h – Ion Popa (ICUB Humanities fellow), Church, Politics, and the Destruction of Jews in Romania: Examining the Context and Influence of Patriarch/Future Prime Minister Miron Cristea’s August 1937 Declarations
Thursday, 08 April 2021, 14h – Mircea Duluș (ICUB Humanities fellow), Late Antique Anti-Christian Polemics and the Framing of Byzantine Scriptural Exegesis: the case of Philagathos of Cerami and Neilos Doxapatres
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 14h – Anita Paolicchi (ICUB Humanities fellow), Anthropomorphic reliquaries of the National Museum of Art
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 14h – Paula Tomi (ICUB Humanities fellow), Can we Have Semantic Deflationism Without a Metaphysical one?
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 14h – Irina Stoica (ICUB Humanities fellow), On knowing and regretting – an overview of Romanian factive verbs
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 14h – Matei Iagher (ICUB Humanities fellow), The Religious Faculty, a short history from Max Müller to Mircea Eliade
Thursday, 24 June 2021, 14h – Andru Chiorean (ICUB Humanities fellow), TBA
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 14h – Lloyd Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan University), Prémontval on natural and rational theology
Thursday, 21 November 2019, 14h – Lorena Anton (ICUB Humanities), Politics of Solidarity and Socialist Friendship: African Students in Ceausescu’s Romania
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 10 h – Muel Kaptein (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Academic Integrity: Challenges and Lessons from Practice
Thursday, 5 December 2019, 14h – Frederic Tremblay (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”), Goethe’s Metaphysical Quest for Urphänomena
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 14h – Ancuța Mortu (ICUB Humanities fellow), Uses of Naturalistic Systems in Art History
Thursday, 19 December 2019, 14h – Ida Valicenti (ICUB Humanities fellow), Elena Bacaloglu and the other Fascism. Socio-political analysis of her Manifesto between Literature, Mysticism and History
Thursday, 23 January 2020, 14h – Ion Popa (ICUB-Humanities fellow), The Puppet and the Puppeteer: Orthodox Patriarch Miron Cristea and the Problem of Responsibility for the First ‘Dictatorship’ of Modern Romania
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 14h – Mihaela Constantinescu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Virtue & Virtuousness: Ascribing moral responsibility to individuals and organizations
Thursday, 06 February 2020, 14h – Silvia-Alexandra Ștefan (ICUB-Humanities Grant), «Honesto loco natus, non prima nobilitate, nobilis tamen». The purity of virtue in Fernando de Herrera´s Historical Prose
Thursday, 13 February 2020, 14h – Mihai Ometiță (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Aspects of Cinema and Senses of the Modern
Thursday, 20 February 2020, 14h – Radu Dipratu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Letters to Jerusalem: Ottoman High-Ranking Officials’ Dealings with Catholics in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 14h – Miklos Redei (London School of Economics), Philosophical qualities of science in Musil’s “Man without qualities”
Thursday, 05 March 2020, 14h – Andrei Mărășoiu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), “Aha!” – “Are you sure?”: contrasting approaches to the nature of insight
CANCELLED Thursday, 12 March 2020, 14h – Andrei Ionescu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Between Mental Health and Illness: What Can Literature Teach Science and Philosophy?
Thursday, 18 September 2018, 14h – Sigrid Leyssen (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Re-animating Filmology Experiments. Historical and Historiographical Explorations
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 14h – Cătălin Țăranu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), ‘Truth is the trickiest’: Constructing Historical Veracity in Anglo-Saxon England
Thursday, 27 September 2018, 14h – Stephen Howard (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Kant’s critique of rational cosmology
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 14h – Lorena Anton (ICUB Humanities), RedExEd_Levant: Exotic Educational Migration to Ceausescu’s Romania
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 14h – Theodor Ulieriu-Rostás (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Inventors, victors and cataloguers: lists and the construction of knowledge in ancient Greek musical scholarship
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 14h – Paschalis Pechlivanis (ICUB Humanities Fellow), An Uneasy Triangle: Ceausescu, the Colonels and the Greek Communists (1967-1974)
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 14h – Alessandro Nannini (ICUB Humanities Fellow), From the Density of Sense to the Density of the Sensible. The Emergence of Aesthetic Pregnancy from the Spirit of Hermeneutics in the Early Modern Age
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 14h – Tinca Prunea (ICUB Humanities), Thomasius at the Berlin Academy: eclectic philosophy and academic spirit
Thursday, 15 November 2018, 14h – Oana Maria Cojocaru (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Youth, sex and sexual morality in Byzantium
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 14h – Mihai Ometiță (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Filmmaking and Philosophizing without Theory: Herzog and Wittgenstein
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 14h – Dragos Ivana (ICUB Humanities Grant), Crossing the Atlantic: Representations of Quixotism in the Early American Novel
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 14h – Stathis Psillos (University of Athens), Induction: The history of a Philosophical Problem
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 14h – Radu Dipratu (NEC / Institute for South-East European Studies), Amending the Ottoman Capitulations: Venetian ‘imperial signs’ (nişan-ı hümayun) in the Seventeenth Century
Thursday, 14 February 2019, 14h – Ida Valicenti (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Elena Bacaloglu, the Manifesto Nazionale Fascista Italo-romeno, and the Italian political and intellectual class
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 14h – Adina Camelia Bleotu (ICUB Humanities Grant), Alexandru Nicolae (ICUB Humanities Grant), Modality in Romanian. Problems of Syntax and Pragmatics, Chair: Alexandra Cornilescu (UB)
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 14h – Viktor Ilievski (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/ ICUB Humanities Alumnus), Chance and Necessity in Plato’s Timaeus
Thursday, 07 March 2019, 14h – Melania Stancu (UB), Borja Mozo Martín (UB), Mianda Cioba (UB), Scientific Projections in Literature and Literary Projections in Science in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 14h – Ancuța Mortu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Psychological Investigations of Art Response
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 14h – Ștefan Firică (UB), Interwar Political Fiction: Possible Readings
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 14h – Ana Petrache (ICUB Humanities Fellow), What can someone achieve through a fake eschatology?
Thursday, 04 April 2019, 14h – Viorel Panaite (University of Bucharest), Studying Islamic Law and Ottoman History: Sources, Methods, Results
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 14h – Mihaela Constantinescu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Moral Responsibility in Organizations: An Aristotelian Account
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 14h – Theodor Ulieriu-Rostás (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Musical inventions and mythographic emplotment in Diodorus’ Historical Library, book III
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 14h – Valentin Săndulescu (University of Bucharest), Attempting Reconstruction, Facing Hostility: Notes regarding the state of the Jewish Community in Romania after the Holocaust (1944 – 1947)
Thursday, 23 May 2019, 14h – Lloyd Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan University), Prémontval on Natural and Rational Theology
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 14h – Oana Matei (New Europe College), “Mapping new territories”: Bacon and Maupertuis on the advancement of knowledge
Thursday, 06 June 2019, 14h – Silvia Ștefan (ICUB Humanities Grant), From Famagusta to Lepanto: Spain between Cultural Inferiority and Imperial Aggrandizing
Tuesday, 26 June 2018, 14h – Sorana Corneanu (UB) & Koen Vermeir (CNRS Paris/ ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), The Art of Thinking and the Scientific Revolutio
Thursday, 21 June 2018, 14h – Matthew Dentith (New Europe College/ICUB Humanities Alumnus), What’s fake about fake news?
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 14h – Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen/ ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Later Wittgenstein and Logical Necessity
Thursday, 07 June 2018, 14h – Divna Manolova (Marie Skłodowska-Curie/POLONEZ 1 Fellow, University of Silesia/ICUB Humanities Alumna), The Mirror of the Moon and the Moon in the Mirror: Demetrios Triklinios’ on Lunar Theory
Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 17.00 – Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu (University of Western Ontario/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor)- Erosophy vs. Philosophy
Thursday, 24 May 2018, 14h – Fabrizio Bigotti (ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor) – The Forgotten Mathematics of Intensity. Measuring Equilibrium in Scholastic Medicine and beyond
Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14h – Brad Gregory (University of Notre Dame), After 500 Years: Why the Reformation Still Matters
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 14h – Ana Petrache (ICUB Humanities Fellow), In the shadow of eschatological narratives
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 14h – Justin Begley (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Margaret Cavendish and the English Universities
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 14h – Douglas Hedley (Cambridge University), Devout Contemplation and Sublime Fancy: the Cambridge Platonists and their Philosophical Legacy
Thursday, 29 March 2018, 14h – Svetlana Tsonkova (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Recent Results from the Comparative Research of Bulgarian and Romanian Early Modern Verbal Magic – CANCELLED
Thursday, 22 March 2018, 14h – Alexandru Nicolae (ICUB Humanities Grant), Romanian modal verb configurations and phases
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 14h – Cornelia Ilie (Malmö University /ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Parliamentary language of power in a gender perspective: Sexist stereotyping in the UK Parliament
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 14h – Adina Camelia Bleotu (ICUB Humanities Grant),Scalar implicatures with quantifiers in Romanian. Are children more logical than adults?
Thursday, 15 February 2018, 14h – Alessandro Nannini (ICUB Humanities Fellow),The Obscure Ground of the Soul: A Central Idea of the German Enlightenment at the Crossroads of Theology, Psychology and Aesthetics
Thursday, 1 February 2018, 14h – Oana Cojocaru (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Byzantine adolescence: concept and contexts
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 14h – Viktor Ilievski (ICUB Humanities Fellow)– Aristotelian causes in Plato’s Timaeus?
Wednesday 20 December 2017, 15h – Ioan Muntean (University of North Carolina Asheville), Varieties of scientific realism: new work for principles, laws, and computation
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 14h – Nancy S. Jecker (University of Washington/ ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor) The Future of Population Aging: Lessons from Romania and China
Thursday, 7 December 2017, 14h – Cătalin Țăranu (ICUB Humanities Fellow) ‘Beyond Fact or Fiction: The Battle of Maldon Across Medieval Modes of History-writing
Thursday, 23 November 2017, 14h – Donca Steriade (MIT/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor) Intervals and grammars of rhyme
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 14h – Mogens Laerke (ENS Lyon), Spinoza on Common Notions
Thursday, 9 November 2017, 14h – Jennifer Radden (University of Massachusetts Boston /ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor) Defining Mental Illness: Some Philosophical Considerations
Thursday, 2 November 2017, 14h – Stefano Gulizia (CUNY /ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Prisca Historia. Rethinking Francesco Patrizi’s Anti-Aristotelian Philology from Humanist Doxography to English Empiricism
Thursday, 19 October 2017, 10h – Course Images of the Knowledge System Pivoted Around Cosmology, Matteo Valleriani (Max-Planck Institute Berlin/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Faculty of Philosophy
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 14h – Svetlana Tsonkova (ICUB Humanities Fellow) Verbal Magic in Bulgaria and Romania (17th – 19th century) – Structural and Contextual Comparisons and Contrasts
Thursday, 5 October 2017, 14h – Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor) Language and Languages. On the importance of linguistic variation as a means to understand the human mind
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 14h – Corina Ilea (ICUB Humanities Fellow) Images at a Distance: Witnessing, Remembering, Sharing
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 14h – María M. Carrión (Emory University), Sixteenth-century European Herbaria. Location, Conservation, Knowledge, Access
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 14h – Dimitris Michalopoulos (The Institute of Hellenic Maritime History, Athens/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), The problem of peasantry in Eastern Europe and the solution given in Romania
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 14h – Thomas Cousineau (Washington College/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), The Daedalus Complex: Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 14h –Viktor Ilievski (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Freedom and Determinism in Plato’s Myth of Er
Thursday, 13 April 2017, 14h – Salvatore di Piazza (University of Palermo/ University of Brussels), Believing is said in many ways. On the Greek notion of pistis
Thursday, 06 April 2017, 14h – Liviu Giosan (MIT/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/ ICUB Visiting Professor), Anthropocene: A Chance to Bridge the Gap between the ‘Two Cultures’?
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 14h – Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici (New Europe College), History and Human Agency: Western Ego-Documents, c. 1100-1450
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 14h – Adina Dragomirescu (University of Bucharest), Language contact and convergence: Old Church Slavonic and Old Romanian
Thursday, 9 March 2017, 14h – Corina Ilea (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Mediated Migrations
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 14h – Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria), The Burning of the Racovian Catechism in Jacobean England: A Four Century-Old Historical Myth
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 14h – Tamara Cărăuș (ICUB Social Sciences), Assuming Bare Life? Agamben on the Condition of Refugees and the Coming Politics
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 14h – Martin Maiden (Oxford University/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), On the Substance of Autonomous Morphology
Thursday, 9 February 2017, 14h – Iulian Toader (Utrecht University/ICUB Humanities alumnus), The Permanence of Forms in Quantum Mechanics
Thursday, 2 February 2017, 14h – Massimo Leone (University of Turin/ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Cognition and Emotion in Visual Hermeneutics
Thursday, 26 January 2017, 14h –Ionut Alexandru-Tudorie (University of Bucharest), The French Institute of Byzantine Studies (IFEB) and the Romanian Academia (1937-1949)
Thursday, 19 January 2017, 14h – Matteo Valleriani (Max-Planck Institute Berlin), The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 14h – Matjaž Vesel (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Galileo Galilei as a Peripatetic: Necessary Demonstrations, Demonstrative Regress and the Moon like the Second Earth
Thursday, 8 December 2016, 14h – Timothy Tambassi (ICUB Humanities Fellow) The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 14h –Antoni Malet (University of Barcelona) Mathematizing vision: Della Porta, Kepler, and beyond
Thursday, 17 November 2016, 14h – Paul Greenham (Tel Aviv University), Representation in Newton’s Mathematics: A Translational Approach
Thursday, 10 November 2016, 14h – Divna Manolova (New Europe College/ ICUB Humanities alumna), Redefining Exactness in Late Byzantine Astronomy
Thursday, 3 November 2016, 14h – Matthew R. X. Dentith (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Expertise and Conspiracy Theories: On the improvised nature of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorising
Thursday, 13 October 2016, 14h – Dana Jalobeanu (ICUB Humanities), Francis Bacon on mixed-sciences and the organization of knowledge
Thursday, 6 October 2016, 14h – Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki/ ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor), Dependence and Independence in Logic
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 14h – Stefan Ionescu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Restitution of Jewish Property in post-Holocaust Bucharest, 1944-1950
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 14h – Diana Stanciu (ICUB Humanities), Consciousness: Descartes and His Critics
Thursday, 9 June 2016, 14h – Grigore Vida (New Europe College), A Romanian Edition of Descartes’ Complete Correspondence: Challenges and Results
Thursday, 2 June 2016, 14h – Marian Coman (University of Bucharest), Dynastic Self-Fashioning in Sixteenth-Century Wallachia
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 14h – Alberto Vanzo (University of Warwick), Giorgio Baglivi, Seventeenth-Century Baconianism, and the Derivation of Principles from Experience
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 14h – Tzuchien Tho (Milan University), Why must (local) motion be continuous? Leibniz’s abstract and concrete space of motion
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 14h – Alexandra Parvan (University of Pitesti), Metaphysical Care for Chronic Patients: Monistic Dualism and the Body Electric
Thursday, 14 April 2016, 14h – Workshop on Simplification and Reductionism in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Thursday, 07 April 2016, 14h – Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, University of London), The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)
Thursday, 31 March 2016, 14h – Silvia Manzo (National University of La Plata), Matter’s quantity and the order of nature in Francis Bacon
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 14h – Peter Anstey (ICUB Humanities Visiting Professor/ University of Sydney), Experimental moral philosophy?
Thursday, 17 December 2015, 14h – Adrian Currie (University of Calgary), From models-as-fictions to models-as-tools
Thursday, 10 December 2015, 14h – Kirsten Walsh (ICUB Humanities Fellow) – Direct and Indirect Representation in Newton’s Natural Philosophy
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 14h – Ionut Tudorie (ICUB Humanities Grant) – May they not decay after death: In Search of the Uncorrupt Body of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (1258-1282).
Thursday, 26 November 2015, 14h – Christian Ferencz-Flatz (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Perception as a mass-phenomenon. Benjamin’s theory of „collective reception“ and its philosophical roots
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 14h – Delphine Bellis (Radboud University Nijmegen), Gassendi’s Theory of Space and its Relation to his Conception of Mathematics
Thursday, 12 November 2015, 14h – Franco A. Meschini (Universita del Salento), Entre le De Homine (1662) et l’Homme (1664). Matériaux et problématiques pour une édition critique de l’Homme de Descartes
Thursday, 5 November 2015, 14h – Daniel Garber (Princeton University) – Telesio among the novatores
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 14h – Ciprian Jeler (ICUB Humanities Fellow) – What kind of environment is required for natural selection?
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 14h – Fabrizio Baldassari (ICUB Humanities Fellow) – Descartes’ Philosophy of Medicine. Mechanical Theory, Botanical Practice: a Possible Therapeutics
Thursday, 15 October 2015, 14h – Divna Manolova (ICUB Humanities Fellow) – Polymathy and Intellectual Curiosity in Late Byzantium: Preliminary Remarks
Thursday, 8 October 2015, 14h – Andrew Janiak (Duke University), Presentation of the Project VOX
Thursday, 1 October 2015, 14h – Round table & future projects
Thursday, 24 September 2015, 14h – Doina Cristina Rusu (Romanian Academy – Iasi Branch), Describing Women in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine
Friday, 18 September 2015, 14h – Fabrizio Baldassari (ICUB Humanities Fellow), René Descartes’ Underdeveloped Studies. Completing His Natural Philosophy
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 14h – Ciprian Jeler (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Multi-level selection and the notion of “biological population”
Thursday, 11 June 2015, 14h – Christian Ferencz-Flatz (ICUB Humanities Fellow), “Tactile Perception” in Benjamin and Phenomenology
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 14h – Ioan Muntean (University of Notre Dame – The Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values & University of North Carolina, Asheville), Philosophy of complexity: contingency, laws, simulation (with a detour in Leibniz and Russell)
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 14h – Erdmann Görg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Newton and Euler on the Basic Principles of Mechanics
Thursday, 21 May 2015, 14h – Cristina Ionescu (CUA, Washington DC), The Method of Dialectics in Plato’s Philebus
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 14h – Kirstin Walsh (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Newton’s Philosophy of Science
Thursday, 7 May 2015, 14h – Iordan Avramov (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Communicating about Objects and Communicating Objects at the Early Royal Society; The Evidence of the Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 14h – On IHR-ICUB projects and perspectives (Dana Jalobeanu, Mihnea Dobre, Cristian Ciocan)