Conference Programme
Another Humanism: Traditions of Critique and Resistance. Stockholm University 9–10 February 2023.
Thursday 9 February
09:00-09:15 | Coffee and registration |
09:15-09:30 | Opening by Deputy Head of Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Professor of Art History, Catharina Nolin, and organizers’ welcome |
09:30-10:45 |
Keynote lecture: Zahi Zalloua: “Montaigne avec Žižek: The Inhuman Neighbor in the Self and the Friend” |
10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00: Panel 1: Reason, Passions and Bodies
11:00-12:30 | (chair: Cecilia Rosengren) Niels Nykrog, University of Copenhagen: “Unconscious Conversions: Passions and Metatheatre in the St. Genesius Plays” Karine Durin, University of Nantes: “To Have Reason: Argumentative Texture and Chains of Discourse. The Art of Logic of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” Johanna Vernqvist, Linköping University:“’I want you to bow to experience’”: The Importance of Experience and Free Will in Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogo della infinità di amore” |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch at the department library |
13:30: Panel 2: Premodern/Modern Subjectivity I
13:30-14:30 | (chair: Carin Franzén) Christian Høgel, University of Lund: “Subjectivity in the Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas” Dariusz Krawczyk, University of Warsaw: “The 16th Century French Discourse on Civility and the Emancipation of Subjectivity” |
14:30-14:40 | Break |
14:40: Panel 3: Premodern/Modern Subjectivity II
14:40-15:50 |
(chair: Carin Franzén) |
15:50-16:10 | Coffee break |
16:10: Panel 4: Boundaries Between Humans and the Non-human
16:10-17:10 | (chair: Nan Gerdes) Nicolas Correard University of Nantes: “The Ass and the Philosopher: Anselm’s Turmeda’s Disputa del Ase and its reception in the Renaissance” Jan Miernowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison/ University of Warsaw: “Epihumanism. Animal Laughter in the Times of Humanism and Posthumanism” |
19:00 | Conference dinner at Artilleriet |
Friday 10 February
09:00-10:15 |
Keynote lecture: Alison Calhoun, “Another Descartes? Early Modern Drama and Cartesianism After 1650” |
10:15-10:30 | Coffee break |
10:30: Panel 5: Early Modern Ecocriticism/Ecology
10:30-12:00 |
(chair: Johanna Vernqvist) |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch at Fakultetsklubben, Stockholm University |
13:00: Panel 6: Power and Gender
13:00-15:00 | (chair: Sofia Warkander) Alejandra G. Acosta Mota, University of La Laguna: “Who Reigns in the Garden of Creation? A Study of Female Patronage and Clientelism in a Loa of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Jobst Welge, University of Leipzig: Power, Gender and (Dis-)Embodied Subjectivity in Sor Juana’s Neptuno Alegórico and Primero Sueño Anna Carlstedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: “The Queens Embodiment of Concord and Diplomacy: Reshaping the Neoplatonic Concept in the Shadow of Religious War” Matilda Amundsen Bergström, University of Gothenburg: “Love, Hate and the Life Well Lived: Passion and Judgement in Agneta Horn’s Description of My Miserable Life” |
15:00-15:25 | Coffe break |
15:15: Panel 7: Libertinism/Free-thinking, and Posthumanism
15:15-16:45 | (chair: Anna Carlstedt) Chad Córdova, Emory University: “Letting Oneself Go: Hearing Montaigne in the Middle Voice” Anne Fastrup, University of Copenhagen: “Early Modern Orientalism as Post-Humanism” Dennis Meyhoff Brink, University of Copenhagen: “Demonology, Descartes, and the satirical subversion of Christian subjectivation in Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde” |
16:45-17:00 | Break |
17:00-17:30 | Closing discussion |
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Last updated: February 9, 2023
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics