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) Sophie Pousette, Kingston University: “Rousseau’s New Heloise: Love as Social Critique?” Anna Enström: Södertörn University: “Subjectivity and Sensibility. On the Concept of Gemüt in Kant’s Aesthetics”
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)
Chelsey Lush McMaster University: “Breaking Binaries: Women, Nature, and Civility in Love’s Labour’s Lost”
Alexander Paulsson Lash, Stockholm University: “’Nature is but one body’: Staging Margaret Cavendish’s Materialist Monism”
Cecilia Rosengren, University of Gothenburg: “Thinking with Ice – Observations and Conceptions of Cold in the Little Ice Age”

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

Contact

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Last updated: February 9, 2023

Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics