The MaisonFrançaise d'Oxford (USR 3129, CNRS)
and the
Institutdes Sciences de la Communication (ISC-CNRS),Projet PEPS
are pleased to announce
InternationalConference PEPS :
Power of Spirit and Imagination
in the 17th Century
Tuesday19 October, Maison Française d'Oxford
9.30 Welcome and Tea/Coffee
10.00am- 10.15am: Martine Pécharman (MFO-CNRS) and Koen Vermeir(SPHERE-CNRS)
Introduction : “Power of Spirit and Imagination in the 17thCentury”
Session 1: 10.15am-12.45pm
Chair : Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)
Frédérique Aït-Touati (St John's College, Oxford)
“Voir,imaginer, savoir : du bon usage de l'imagination en philosophie naturelle”
Frédéric deBuzon (UMR 5037-CNRS)
“Du bonusage de l'imagination : physique et mathématique chez Descartes et Malebranche”
John O'Brien (Royal Holloway, University of London)
“Montaigneimaginaire”
Session 2: 2.00pm-3.30pm
Chair :Martine Pécharman (MFO-CNRS)
Thibaut Maus de Rolley (Worcester College, Oxford)
“Entremauvais esprits et esprits animaux : les débats sur la force de l'imaginationdans les traités démonologiques des 16ème et 17ème siècles”
Robin Briggs (All Souls College, Oxford)
“Witches, demons and the early modern imagination”
Session 3: 4.00pm-5.30pm
Chair : Koen Vermeir (SPHERE-CNRS)
Anna Corrias (Warburg Institute, University of London)
“Nebuchadnezzar among the oxen : the power of the imagination inMarsilio Ficino's theory of the vehicles of the soul”
Angus Gowland (University College London)
“Theories of melancholic dreaming in the Renaissance”
Convenors: Martine PÉCHARMAN (CNRS-MFO)and Koen VERMEIR (SPHERE-CNRS)
- ALL WELCOME -