Plenary Sessions

Here you will find an overview of the plenary sessions. Subject to changes.

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Abstracts Plenary Speakers

 

Wednesday May 4, 2022

Time

Session

Room
L 115
13:00-13:15 h Opening of the conference and welcome addresses
13:15-14:15 h Plenary lecture 1 (online): Simone de Angelis (University of  Graz, Center for the History of Science): On Philipp Melanchthon’s Concept of Body and Soul
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (Theological University of Apeldoorn)
14:15-15:15 h Plenary lecture 2: Iris Brahms (Kunsthistorisches Institut Berlin): Self-Reflection and Imagination. Visual Concepts of Body and Soul around 1600
Chair: Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen)
15:15-15:30 h Coffee Break
 
Room
Foyer
19:30 h Reception, sponsored by Brill Deutschland GmbH and De Gruyter
 
 
 
 

Thursday May 5, 2022

Time

Session

Room
L 115
09:00-10:00 h 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. Chair: Peter Opitz (Universität Zürich)
10:00-11:00 h Plenary lecture 4: Katja Krause (Max Planck Institut Berlin): Human Themes in Albert the Great’s Natural Philosophy. Chair: Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin)
11:00-11:05 h Announcement Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, May 11-13, 2023 in Leuven, by Wim François (KU Leuven)
 
14:15-15:15 h 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). Chair: Karla Boersma (REFORC)
15:15-15:30 h Award Ceremony REFORC Book Award 2022
18:00 h 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. Chair: Peter Opitz (Universität Zürich)

 

Friday May 6, 2022

 

Time

Session

 

Room
L 115
 
09:00-10:00 h Plenary Lecture 5, Lukas Mühlethaler (FU Berlin): Jewish Thinkers on the Problem of Individuation
Chair: Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin)
10:00-11:00 h Plenary Lecture 6, Jochem Kahl (SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“, FU Berlin): Crossing Boundaries – Posthumous Existence in Ancient Egypt. Chair: Herman Selderhuis (Theological University of Apeldoorn)
14:15-15:15 h Plenary lecture 7, Carmen Schmechel (FU Berlin): Spiritual Fermentations: Eschatology, Alchemia Medica, and Exaltation of Matter. Chair: Herman Selderhuis (Theological University of Apeldoorn)
15:15-16:15 h Plenary Lecture 8: Hana Gründler (Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte Florenz): Sculpting the Soul, Building Society: Art, Language and Selfhood in the Florentine Quattrocento. Chair: Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin)
16:15-16:30 h Announcements, closing of the conference

 

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