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Weekly Seminar: Sensing the Truth: Changing Conceptions of the Perceptual in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

Weekly Seminar: Sensing the Truth: Changing Conceptions of the Perceptual in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe

Date: 
Yearly Semester, Tuesday 10:00

Date

Meeting Type

Hours

Speaker

Title / Topics

14.9.2021

Group Seminar #1 (CLOSED)

10-12

Core-Fellows Gen. Meeting – Coordinated by Everyone!

General Discussion – General meeting, Methodology, et al.

5.10.2021

Group Seminar #2 (CLOSED)

 

Core-Fellows – Embodiment / Epistemology

TBN

19.10.2021

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

15-17

Prof. Elena Lombardi (University of Oxford) - ZOOM

Dante and the Senses I

21.10.2021

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

15-17

Prof. Elena Lombardi (University of Oxford) - ZOOM

Dante and the Senses II

26.10.2021

Group Seminar #3 (CLOSED)

 

10-12

Prof. Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

"COMMON SENSE AMONG THE SCHOLASTICS:
BETWEEN SENSUS COMMUNIS AND CONCEPTIONES COMMUNES"

2.11.2021

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

17-19

Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University) - ZOOM

““The Triple Essence of the Visual Process”, or Thinking with Diagrams in the Middle Ages and Modernity”

9.11.2021

Guest Speakers (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

17-19

Anthony Grafton (Princeton) and Maren Elisabeth Schwab (Universität Göttingen) - ZOOM

Sacred and profane antiquarianism in Renaissance Italy

16.11.2021

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

17-19

Joseph Leo Koerner (Harvard University) - ZOOM

Adam's Augenblick:  The Moment of the Fall from the Catacombs to Kierkegaard

23.11.2021

Group Seminar #4 (CLOSED)

10-12

Core-Fellows - General Discussion

TBN

30.11.2021

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

14-16

Lizzie Marx (University of Cambridge)

Fleeting – Scents in Colour

7.12.2021

Group Seminar #5 (CLOSED)

10-12

Core-Fellows - General Discussion on John Milton’s PL V. Group Discussion led by William Kolbrener

TBN

14.12.2021

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

 

TBN

21.12.2021

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

17-19

Andrew Kettler (Kenyon College) - ZOOM

The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World

28.12.2021

Group Seminar #6 (CLOSED)

10-12

Core-Fellows - General Discussion

TBN

4.1.2022

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney)

Descartes, Kepler and Vision

11.1.2022

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

Emilie Murphy (University of York)

Hearing anglophone travel narratives

23.1.2022

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia)

“Mummy as Pharmakon in Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles”

25.1.2022

Group Discussion #7 (CLOSED)

10-12

Prof. Joseph David

The Sense of Justice

1.2.2022

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

No meeting

 

8.2.2022

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

17-19

Anna Sierka (Harvard University) - ZOOM

Weaponizing the Olfactory Sense: The Succubus in Jewish Esoteric Sources

15.2.2022

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

15-17

William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University) - ZOOM

“Falstaff’s Nose: Perfumed Presences and the Past Beyond Meaning”

22.2.2022

Group Discussion #8

10-12

Stephanie Shirilan (Syracuse University)

Sensing An/Aesthetic Atmosphere in Macbeth

1.3.2022

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

Elizabeth Swann (University of Durham)

Shadows in the Water: Over-reading Thomas Traherne

8.3.2022

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

16-18

Jacob M. Baum (Texas Tech University) - ZOOM

Sensory History from an Impaired Perspective: Ability, Disability, and Daily Life in Early Modern Life-Writing.

15.3.2022

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

13:30-15:00

Mark Jenner (University of York)

The Sanitary and the Sensory in Early Modern London

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (Dublin) 30.3 – 2.4

7.4.2022

Joint Group Discussion with “Purity” IIAS Group - Embodiment and Text

12.4.2022

Core-Fellow Pres.

10-12

William Kolbrener (Bar-Ilan University)

'Newton's Opticks, Addison's Sight, and the End of Reading'

25.4.2022

History of Science Cycle

(OPEN TO PUBLIC)

#1

Raz Chen Morris (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The Telescope as a Mind-Designer

    #2 Ofer Gal (Sydney University)

“Des Cartes’s fantastical conjecture:” Englishmen in Paris and the Specter of the Naturalized Senses.

    #3

Lola Kantor Kazovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Scepticism about the Senses, the “Dream Argument” and Art Theory in 18th-century Venice

3.5.2022

Guest Speaker

16:30

Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College and Conservatory)

Beyond Beyond: Shakespeare's Cymbeline, The Camera Obscura, and the Ontology of Elsewhere

10.5.2022

History of Science Cycle

(OPEN TO PUBLIC)

10-12

Alex Wragge-Morley (University of Lancaster)

Intersubjectivity and Medical Expertise in the letters of George Cheyne, Selina Hastings, and their patients

12.5.2022

Guest Speaker 13:30-15:00

Stephanie Bowry (Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London)

 TBN

16.5.2022

Guest Speakers 11-12:30

Piers Brown (Kenyon College) and Allison Deutermann (Baruch College CUNY)

TBN

17.5.2022

Guest Speaker

Senses in Jewish Thought

(OPEN TO PUBLIC)

16-18

Gregory Wayne Schmidt Goering (University of Virginia)

Senses in the Bible

18.5.2022

Guest Speaker     TBN

24.5.2022

Guest Speaker

Senses in Jewish Thought

(OPEN TO PUBLIC)

10-12

Yael Fisch (Buber Society of Fellows)

Senses in Rabbinical Thought

26.5.2022

Guest Speaker

Senses in Jewish Thought  

(OPEN TO PUBLIC)

10-12

Yonatan Moss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Early-Modern Jewish Conceptions of the Senses

31.5.2022

Short-term Fellow

 

Bridget Heal (St Andrews University)

 

1.6.2022 Outreach Workshop All Day

Joint Initiative with JEWTACT group at BGU

 
2.6.2022

Guest Speaker (OPEN TO PUBLIC)

15:00-16:30 Laura Sumrall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

TBN

7.6.2022

Guest Speaker

10-12

Tomas McAuley (University College Dublin)

Hearing Music, Hearing Truth

9.6.2022

Guest Speaker  

Prof. Emily Michelson (St Andrews U) and Prof. Barbara Wisch (SUNY Cortland)

TBN

IIAS “SENSING THE TRUTH” CONFERENCE

21.6.2022

Group Discussion #9 (CLOSED)

10-12

Core-Fellows - General Discussion

TBN