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Programme
Enlightenment? Ideas, transfers, circles, attitudes, practices
Conference organised by the Werkgroep 18e Eeuw (Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies) in Het Pand te Ghent, Belgium, 22-23 January 2010
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Friday 22 January 2010 |
11:30 | Member Meeting of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:00 | Registration |
13:15 | Opening: Wiep van Bunge, chair of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL) |
13.30 | Announcement of the winner of the essay contest 2008 |
13:45 | Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht University, NL)
In search of the Enlightenment |
14.45 | Alise van Hecke-Jameson (Ghent University, B)
Enlightenment Authorship: The Case of the Society for the Encouragement of Learning |
15.15 | Coffee break |
15.45 | Hanco Jürgens (University of Amsterdam, NL)
How to Study the Cultural History of Change? The Enlightenment Compared with the Sixties |
16:15 | Peter Clark (University of Helsinki, FIN)
Spaces, Circuits and Short-circuits in the European Enlightenment |
17:15 | Drinks |
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Saturday 23 January 2010 |
9:30 | Registration |
10:00 | David Sorkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Four Characteristics of the Religious Enlightenment |
11:00 | John Robertson (St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, GB)
Do We Need More than One Enlightenment? |
12:00 | Coffee break |
12:15 | Christophe Madelein (Ghent University, B)
The Epic Struggle of the Ancien Regime |
12:45 | Emiliano Acosta (Ghent University, B)
Religious Dimension in the Radical Enlightenment? Towards a Definition of the Concept of Radical Enlightenment |
13:15 | Lunch |
14:00 | Florian Heyerick (University College Ghent, B)
“Der Tod Jesu” between Bible and Poetry |
14:30 | Marion Huibrechts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B)
‘Enlightened’ Views of the American Continent During the 1780s |
15:00 | Plenary discussion |
15:30 | End |
Participation Conference
Registration for the conference: www.18e-eeuw.nl or penningmeester@18e-eeuw.nl
Entrance fee Friday 22 January 2010: € 15,- (students and AIO’s € 10,-), entrance fee Saturday 23 January 2010: € 25,- (students, AIO’s € 15,-); entrance fee both days € 40,- (students and AIO’s € 25,-).
The prices are inclusive coffee, tea and lunch.
The participants receive a programme with the abstracts of the presentations after registration in Ghent.
>> To the registration form
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