Program

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Wednesday May 4, 2022

 

Time

Session

 
13:00 Opening of the conference and welcome addresses
13:15 Plenary Lecture 1, Simone de Angelis, (University of Graz), online: On Philipp Melanchthon’s Concept of Body and Soul
14:15 Plenary Lecture 2, Iris Brahms (Kunsthistorisches Institut Berlin): Self-Reflection and Imagination. Visual Concepts of Body and Soul around 1600
15:15 Coffee Break
15:30 Short Paper Panels 1
17:30 Short Paper Panels 2
19:30 Reception, sponsored by Brill Deutschland GmbH and De Gruyter
 

 

Thursday May 5, 2022

 

Time

Session

 
09:00 Plenary Lecture 3, Florentina Badalanova (Royal Anthropological Institute London): Discussing the Genesis of Human Body and Soul: Anthropogonic Discourses in Judaeo-Christian Apocryphal Writings and Indo-European Oral Tradition
10:00 Plenary Lecture 4, Katja Krause (Max Planck Institut Berlin): Human Themes in Albert the Great’s Natural Philosophy
11:00 Announcement Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, May 11-13, 2023 in Leuven, by Wim François.
11:05 Coffee Break
11:20 Short Paper Panels 3
13:20 Lunch Break
14:15 Round Table: Do we need a Research Infrastructure? RESILIENCE & Early Modern Christianity. Francesca Cadeddu (FSCIRE), Albrecht Döhnert (De Gruyter), Jörg Persch (Brill Deutschland), Zsombor Tóth (Research Center for the Humanities in Budapest)
15:15 Award Ceremony REFORC Book Award 2022
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Short Paper Panels 4
17:45 Coffee Break
18:00 Reading Class: Prof. Dr. Eveline Goodman-Thau (Jerusalem):  “He Gives her a rib and she gives him a soul in return“On the Dialectics of Body and Soul as a Paradigm
18:00 Short Paper Panels 4 (one panel)
19:30 End of the day
 

 

Friday May 6, 2022

 

Time

Session

 
09.00 Plenary Lecture 5, Lukas Mühlethaler (FU Berlin): Jewish Thinkers on the Problem of Individuation
10.00 Plenary Lecture 6, Jochem Kahl (SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung, FU Berlin): Crossing Boundaries – Posthumous Existence in Ancient Egypt
11:00 Coffee Break
11.15 Short Paper Panels 5
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Plenary Lecture 7, Carmen Schmechel (FU Berlin): Spiritual Fermentations: Eschatology, Alchemia Medica, and Exaltation of Matter
15:15 Plenary Lecture 8, Hana Gründler (Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Florence): Sculpting the Soul, Building Society: Art, Language and Selfhood in the Florentine Quattrocento
16:15 Announcements, closing of the conference

 

 

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