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Dear All, 

Please find below the programme for the Conference "Power of Spirit and Imagination in the 17th Century" 
to be held at the Maison Francaise d'Oxford on Tuesday 19 October. The conference has been organized by Martine Pécharman 
and Koen Vermeir. Speakers are: Frédrerique Ait-Touati (St John’s College, Oxford), John O’Brien (Royal Holloway)
Angus Gowland (University College London), Robin Briggs (All Souls College, Oxford), Thibaut Maus de Rolley (Worcester College, Oxford)
Anna Corrias (Warburg Institute, and Frédéric de Buzon (UMR 5037CNRS).

Tuesday 19^th October

9.30am: Welcome and Tea/Coffee

10.00am-10.15am

Martine Pécharman (MFO-CNRS)-Koen Vermeir (SPHERE-CNRS)

“Introduction : Power of Spirit and Imagination in the 17th Century”

Session 1

10.15am -12.45 am

Chair : Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)

10.15am-11.00am: Frédérique Aït-Touati (St John’s College, Oxford)

“Voir, imaginer, savoir : du bon usage de l’imagination en philosophie naturelle”

Tea/Coffee Break

11.15am-12am: Frédéric de Buzon (UMR 5037-CNRS)

“Du bon usage de l’imagination : physique et mathématique chez Descartes et Malebranche”

12.00am-12.45pm: John O’Brien (Royal Holloway, University of London)

“Montaigne imaginaire”

 
Lunch Break

Session 2

2.00 pm-3.30 pm

Chair : Martine Pécharman (MFO-CNRS)

2.00pm-2.45pm: Thibaut Maus de Rolley (Worcester College, Oxford)

“Entre mauvais esprits et esprits animaux : les débats sur la force de l’imagination dans les traités démonologiques des 16ème et 17ème siècles”

2.45pm-3.30pm: Robin Briggs (All Souls College, Oxford)

“Witches, demons and the early modern imagination”

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 3

4.00 pm-5.30 pm

Chair : Koen Vermeir (SPHERE-CNRS)

4.00pm-4.45pm: Anna Corrias (Warburg Institute, University of London)

“Nebuchadnezzar among the oxen : the power of the imagination in Marsilio Ficino’s theory of the vehicles of the soul”

4.45pm-5.30pm: Angus Gowland (University College London)

“Theories of melancholic dreaming in the Renaissance”

With the support of the Maison Française d’Oxford and of the Institut des Sciences de la Communication (ISC-CNRS, Project PEPS).

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Dr. Koen Vermeir
Senior Research Fellow, REHSEIS-SPHERE, CNRS
Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France