Formal sessions and social activities will take place from lunchtime on Tuesday 21 September to early afternoon on Thursday 23 September. Please note that this schedule is provisional and all details are subject to change:
Tuesday 21 September
Wednesday 22 September
Thursday 23 September
Tuesday 21 September
| Foyer, Ruth Deech Building 12.00-1.45pm Registration and Buffet Lunch |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building 1.45-2.00pm Welcome and Introduction Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) & Vladimír Urbánek (Czech Academy of Sciences) |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building 2.00-3.00pm Introductory Plenary Session |
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| Central European Universalism: Medieval Roots and Post-Reformation Practices Chair: Robert Evans |
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| Pavlína Cermanová (Czech Academy of Sciences) ‘Un édifice déja construit?’: Medieval Prophecies of Universal Reform and the Apocalyptic Imagination of Post-Reformation Central Europe |
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| Antonín Kostlán (Czech Academy of Sciences) European Calvinist Intellectual Networks and the Czech Lands: A Case Study of Jan Opsimathes |
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| 3.00-4.00pm Parallel Sessions 1 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Intellectual and Confessional Networks in Central Europe before 1620 Chair: Ian Maclean |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Eschatology in Central Europe before the Thirty Years War Chair: Noel Malcolm |
| Martin Holý (Czech Academy of Sciences) Bohemian and Moravian Nobility and its Connections with European Scholars in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century |
Lucie Storchová (Czech Academy of Sciences) Fatal Periods: Routinisation of an Eschatological Concept within Bohemian University Humanism (c.1550–1621) |
| Hanna Orsolya Vincze (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Hungarian Heidelbergians and the Further Reform Agenda |
Leigh Penman (University of Oxford) Schola Spiritus Sancti: The Chiliastic Underground in the Holy Roman Empire, 1600-1630 |
| Foyer, Ruth Deech Building 4.00-4.30pm Tea and Coffee |
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| 4.30-5.30pm Parallel Sessions 2 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Polish Socinianism in European Context Chair: Maria Rosa Antognazza |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Millenarian Traditions in Poland and Hungary Chair: TBC |
| Sarah Mortimer (University of Oxford) Cosmopolitan Christians: The Socinians and Intellectual Exchange |
Rafał Prinke (Eugeniusz Piasecki University, Poznań) ‘Heliocantharus Borealis’: The Alchemist Michael Sendivogius and Fourth Monarchy Millenarianism |
| Michal Choptiany (Jagiellonian University) Ramism Applied? A Case Study of the Pedagogical Socinian Academy of Raków |
Pál Ács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) The Last Jews: The Apocalyptic Pamphlet by Stephanus Pannonius (1608) in the Hungarian Context |
| 6.00-8.00pm Drinks Reception for Conference Participants Divinity School, Bodleian Library |
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| Incorporating viewing of ‘My Wit Was Always Working’: John Aubrey and the Development of Experimental Science Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library |
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| Dining Hall 8.30pm Hot Buffet, St Anne’s College |
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Wednesday 22 September
| Dining Hall 7.45-8.45am Breakfast and Coffee |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building 9.00-10.00am Keynote Lecture Chair: Vladimír Urbánek |
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| Piotr Wilczek (University of Warsaw) The Socinians and Reformation Theology: Intellectual Networks and Historiographical Debates |
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| 10.00-11.00am Parallel Sessions 3 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Polish Irenicism: Two Examples Chair: Natalia Nowakowska |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Palatine Propaganda and Popular Prophecy Chair: David Norbrook |
| Howard Louthan (University of Florida) Toleration and Irenicism in the Polish Context |
Christof Ginzel (University of Giessen) Protestant Prophecy and the Palatine Marriage of 1613: Names, Numbers, and the Need to Map the Future in William Cheeke’s Anagrammata et Chron-Anagrammata Regia |
| Steffen Huber (Jagiellonian University) Searching for the Philosophic Foundations of Irenicism: The Late Frycz Modrzewski |
Jana Hubková (Municipal Museum, Ústí nad Labem) The Early Versions of Christoph Kotter’s Prophecies: Their Sources, Symbols, and Relationship to Pro-Palatine Pamphlets |
| Foyer, Ruth Deech Building 11.00-11.30am Tea and Coffee |
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| 11.30-12.30pm Parallel Sessions 4 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Baconian Practices in Central Europe Chair: Stephen Clucas |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Eschatology in Central Europe during the Thirty Years War Chair: Howard Louthan |
| Vera Keller (University of Southern California) The Wish List in the works of Francis Bacon and Jakob Bornitz |
Vladimír Urbánek (Czech Academy of Sciences) The Reception of Alsted’s Eschatology among Bohemian Exiles: Partlicius, Skála, and Comenius |
| Jacek Kowzan (University of Podlasie, Siedlce) Jan Jonston and his Natural History: Between an Old and New Paradigm |
Noémi Viskolcz (University of Szeged) Millenarianism in Theory and in Practice in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: Johann Permeier’s Circle |
| 12.30-1.30pm Parallel Sessions 5 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Hartlibian Practices in Central Europe Chair: Stephen Johnston |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Italian Roots of Pansophia Chair: Nicholas Davidson |
| Anton Tantner (University of Vienna) Intelligence Offices in Early Modern Central Europe |
Tomáš Nejeschleba (Palacký University) Two Forms of the Reception of Patrizi’s Work in Central Europe: Jessenius’ Zoroaster and Comenius’ Project of Universal Reform |
| John Young (University of Sussex) Utopian Artificers: German Technology and the English Commonwealth |
Jean-Paul De Lucca (University of Malta) Campanella’s Renovazion del Secolo: Religious and Political Reconciliation, Reform, and Unity |
| Foyer, Ruth Deech Building 1.30-2.30pm Buffet Lunch |
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| 2.30-3.30pm Parallel Sessions 6 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building The Hartlib Circle and New England Chair: Scott Mandelbrote |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Encyclopaedism, Pansophia, and Ars Combinatoria Chair: David Cram |
| Karen Kupperman (New York University) The Hartlib Circle’s Interest in America as a Site for Utopian Reforms |
Pierre Olivier Lechot (University of Neuchâtel) Reason, Sanctification, and the Restoration of the Image of God in Man? John Dury’s Relationship to Bartholomäus Keckermann |
| Walter Woodward (University of Connecticut) The Hartlib Circle’s Interest in America as a Site for Utopian Reforms |
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) Words as Things: The Reconfiguration of the Ars Combinatoria and the Ars Memorativa in Johann Balthasar Schupp’s Reformed Rhetoric |
| 3.30-4.30pm Parallel Sessions 7 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Anglo-Imperial Connections Chair: Kathryn Murphy |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Pansophia and Cartesianism Chair: Peter Harrison |
| György E. Szönyi (University of Szeged/ Central European University) Eastward Ho! John Dee’s Legacy in England and Central Europe |
Erik-Jan Bos (University of Utrecht) Shared Ambitions? Rene Descartes and the Hartlib Circle |
| Jennifer Rampling (University of Cambridge) A Universal Solvent? English Alchemists in Imperial Prague |
Márton Szentpéteri (University of Oxford/Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest) ‘Cogito’ or ‘Cyclognomonica’? Combinatorial Encyclopaedia and Cartesian Meditation |
| Foyer, Ruth Deech Building 4.30-5.00pm Tea and Coffee |
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| 5.00-6.00pm Parallel Sessions 8 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Refugee Networks in the Dutch Republic Chair: William Poole |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building The Mundus Subterraneus in East Central Europe and Beyond Chair: Philip Beeley |
| Marika Keblusek (University of Leiden) The Reformed Librarian in Holland: Book and Information Brokerage in Hartlib’s Dutch Network |
Farkas Gábor Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University) Alchemy in the Jesuit Order: With or Without Paracelsus? |
| Danny Noorlander (Georgetown University) The Dutch West India Company as Refuge for Calvinist Clergy from Germany during the Thirty Years War |
George Gömöri (University of Cambridge) Oldenburg and the Mines of Hungary |
| Dining Hall 7.00-9.00pm Conference Dinner, St Anne’s College |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building 9.00-9.30pm Beta Launch of ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ Union Catalogue |
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| 9.30-11.00pm Bar |
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Thursday 23 September
| Dining Hall 7.45-8.45am Breakfast and Coffee |
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| 9.00-10.00am Parallel Sessions 9 |
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| Seminar Room 7, Ruth Deech Building Diplomatic and Intellectual Networks: Transylvania, Sweden, and Germany Chair: Márton Szentpéteri |
Seminar Room 8, Ruth Deech Building Paracelsianism and Helmontianism Chair: György E. Szönyi |
| Gábor Kármán (GWZO, Leipzig) Comenius and the Foreign Policy of the Rákóczis in Transylvania |
Jo Hedesan (University of Exeter) The Universal Key to Nature: The Hartlib Circle’s Quest for Van Helmont’s Alkahest |
| Virginia Dillon (University of Oxford) The March on Pressburg: German News Reports of Transylvania from the Autumn of 1619 |
Urszula Szulakowska (University of Leeds) The Paracelsian Medicine and Theosophy of Abraham von Franckenberg and Robert Fludd |
| 10.00-11.00am Concluding Plenary Session |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building Universal Reformation c.1700 Chair: Pietro Corsi |
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| Alexander Schunka (Forschungszentrum Gotha, University of Erfurt) Reformed Irenicism and Protestant Connections between England and Central Europe in the Early Eighteenth Century |
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| Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London) Leibniz as Universal Reformer |
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| Foyer, Ruth Deech Building 11.00-11.30am Tea and Coffee |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building 11.30-12.30pm Keynote Lecture Chair: Charles Webster |
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| Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) The Three Foreigners Revisited |
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| Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building 12.30-1.30pm Closing Roundtable Discussion Chair: Piotr Wilczek |
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| Dining Hall 1.30-2.30pm Buffet Lunch and Depart |
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