The British Society for the History of Philosophy
in collaboration with
The Department of Science and Technology and the Centre for Italian Studies of
University College London
The British Academy
The Italian Cultural Institute, London
Il Dipartimento di ricerche storico-filosofiche e pedagogiche, Università
di Roma “La Sapienza”
Il Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani of the Istituto Italiano per gli
Studi Filosofici
and the
Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del IV centenario della morte di
Giordano Bruno
sponsored by the Ministero dei Beni Culturali
announces an international Conference on
GIORDANO BRUNO: PHILOSOPHER OF THE RENAISSANCE
to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of his death at the stake
The Conference will be held at University College London, 15-17 June, 2000,
and will be preceded by an inaugural meeting on the afternoon of
Wednesday, June 14th,
at the Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrave Square,
where the proceedings will be introduced by
Prof. Tullio Gregory, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
followed by a special lecture by
Prof. Giovanni Aquilecchia, University of London
President, Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani
on
“Giordano Bruno as Renaissance Philosopher”
The opening address at University College on Thursday, June 15th, will be
given by Professor Michele Ciliberto, President of the Comitato nazionale
per le celebrazioni del IV centenario della morte di Giordano Bruno
Conference speakers will include:
Eliot Albert (Goldsmiths College): The contemporaneity of Bruno’s
Materialism; Lars Berggren (University of Lund, Sweden): The Visual Image
of Giordano Bruno; Constance Blackwell (Foundation for Intellectual
History): Bruno in the German Histories of Philosophy from Brucker to
Hegel; P.R. Blum (Peter Pazmany University, Budapest): Being a Modern
Philosopher and Reading Bruno; Stuart Brown (Open University): Monodology
in Bruno and the Young Leibniz; Lia Buono Hodgart (Royal Holloway College):
Neapolitan and Vernacular Speech-forms in Bruno’s “Candelaio”; Leo Catana
(University College London): Meanings of ‘contractio’ in Bruno’s ‘Sigillus
sigillorum’; Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College London): ‘Perfecte agit ars,
cum naturae agenti connectitur’: problems of disciplinary definition in
Bruno’s ‘ars memorativa’; Karen De Léon Jones (CNRS Paris): Moses the
Philosopher: Biblical Authority in the Italian Dialogues; Marta Fattori,
(Università di Roma “La Sapienza”): Alessandro Citolini, a Common Source
for Bruno and Bacon; Mordechai Feingold (Virginia Polytechnic Institute):
Has Giordano Bruno been in Oxford?; Maurice Finocchiaro (University of
Nevada, Las Vegas): Bruno and Galileo; Hilary Gatti (University of Rome “La
Sapienza”): Bruno and the Protestant Ethic; Andrew Gregory (University
College London): Bruno and Harvey on the Circulation of the Blood;; Dilwyn
Knox (University College London): Bruno’s Pythagorean Dyads in ‘La cena de
le ceneri’; Ramon Mendoza (Florida International University):
Metempsychosis in Bruno’s Nova Philosophia; Nuccio Ordine (University of
Calabria): Bruno e il “Filebo” di Platone; Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway
College London): Lucian’s Silenus in the context of Bruno’s “Spaccio de la
bestia trionfante”; Sandra Plastina (University of Calabria): Bruno and
Nicholas Hill: the New Cosmology in the “Philosophia epicurea”; Piyo
Rattansi (University College London): Bruno, Lull and Paracelsus; Ingrid
Rowland (University of Chicago): Bruno and Neapolitan Neo-platonism;
Ernesto Schettino (National Autonomous University of Mexico) The Necessity
of the Minima in the Nolan Philosophy; Leen Spruit (University of Rome “La
Sapienza”): Bruno and Astrology; Elisabetta Tarantino (University of Wales
at Aberystwyth): The Colonial Theme in Bruno’s “Ash Wednesday Supper” and
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”; Michael Wyatt (Wesleyan University, Conn.):
"Bruno's Infinite Worlds in John Florio's 'New World of Words'".
For information contact Prof. Hilary Gatti, Dipartimento di ricerche
storico-filosofiche e pedagogiche, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Villa
Mirafiori, via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 ROMA:
Fax: +39.06.49917303.
GIORDANO BRUNO: RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHER
REGISTRATION FORM:
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Tick appropriate items from (1), (2) and (3):
(1) Conference Fee
Conference Enrolment Fee
£30
Concessionary Fee for BSHP members, post-grads, unwaged and
UCL staff and fellows £20
Fee for June 14-15 only
£15
Concessionary Fee for BSHP members, post-grads, unwaged and
UCL staff and fellows
£10
Fee for June 16-17 only
£15
Concessionary Fee for BSHP members, post-grads, unwaged and
UCL staff and fellows £10
(2) Refreshments (June 14-17) and lunch (June 15-16)
June 14-17
£32.80 June 14-15 only
£15.65
June 16-17 only
£17.15
(3) Conference supper: Friday June 16th
£25
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A deposit of £10 for registration should be sent with this form before May
20th, 2000. Balance to be paid on arrival.
Cheques should be made payable to University College London (BSHP), and
sent to Ms. Rebecca Hurst, Departmental Administrator, Department of
Science and Technology Studies, University College London, Gower Street,
LONDON WC1E 6BT. For further information or queries please contact Ms.
Hurst on 020 7679 1328 or the conference organiser:
Professor Hilary Gatti, Dipartimento di ricerche storico-filosofiche e
pedagogiche, Universitˆ di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161
ROME, Italy.
Fax: +39.06.49917303.
Further information on the conference centres and the final programme of
events will be available from June 1st on the following internet sites:
http://www.giordanobruno.it
http://giordanobruno.org http://www.ucl.ac.uk/italian
http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/bshp
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Dr Brian Balmer
Department of Science & Technology Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: 0207-679-3924
Fax: 0171-916-2425
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/
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