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EMPHASIS 2003-4 Programme

4 October 2003
(Saturday)

Venue: ST274 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Sophie Page (University College London)
‘Magic and the Medieval Universe.’


1 November 2003
(Saturday)

Venue: ST273 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Dr. Howard Hotson (University of Aberdeen)
'Instauratio imaginis dei ad hominem: encyclopedism, Baconianism, and universal reform.


13 December 2003
(Saturday)

Venue: ST274 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Prof. Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA)
'Neoplatonism and Renaissance Science'.


17 January 2004
(Saturday)

Venue: ST273 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Crofton Black (Warburg Institute)
'Pico della Mirandola's Heptaplus and Jewish Sources'.


7 February 2004
(Saturday)

Venue: ST274 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Rhodri Lewis (Wolfson College, Oxford)
'Language, reason and religion in seventeenth-century England: John Wilkins's Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language.'


6 March 2004
(Saturday)

Venue: ST274 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Dr Dilwyn Knox (University College London)
'Copernicus' Neoplatonic theory of gravity and levity.'


3 April 2004
(Saturday)

Venue: ST273 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Peter J. Forshaw (Birkbeck, University of London)
'Uses of Pythagorean symbolic numbers in sixteenth-century occult philosophy'.


8 May 2004
(Saturday)

Venue: ST273 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Prof. Brian Copenhaver (UCLA)
'Who wrote Pico's Oration?'


5 June 2004
(Saturday)

Venue: ST273 (Stewart House), Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Dr J.V. Field (London)
'Truth, Proof and just getting answers in mathematics and natural philosophy'.


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