Schedule

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
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
1.45-2.00pm
Welcome and Introduction
Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) & Vladimír Urbánek (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
2.00-3.00pm

Introductory Plenary Session
Central European Universalism: Medieval Roots and Post-Reformation Practices
Chair: Robert Evans
Pavlína Cermanová (Czech Academy of Sciences)
‘Un édifice déja construit?’:
Medieval Prophecies of Universal Reform and the Apocalyptic Imagination of Post-Reformation Central Europe
Antonín Kostlán (Czech Academy of Sciences)
European Calvinist Intellectual Networks and the Czech Lands: A Case Study of Jan Opsimathes
3.00-4.00pm
Parallel Sessions 1
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
4.30-5.30pm
Parallel Sessions 2
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
Incorporating viewing of ‘My Wit Was Always Working’: John Aubrey and the Development of Experimental Science
Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library
Dining Hall
8.30pm

Hot Buffet, St Anne’s College

Wednesday 22 September

Dining Hall
7.45-8.45am

Breakfast and Coffee
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
9.00-10.00am

Keynote Lecture
Chair: Vladimír Urbánek
Piotr Wilczek (University of Warsaw)
The Socinians and Reformation Theology: Intellectual Networks and Historiographical Debates
10.00-11.00am
Parallel Sessions 3
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
11.30-12.30pm
Parallel Sessions 4
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
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
2.30-3.30pm
Parallel Sessions 6
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
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
5.00-6.00pm
Parallel Sessions 8
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
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
9.00-9.30pm
Beta Launch of ‘Cultures of Knowledge’ Union Catalogue
9.30-11.00pm
Bar

Thursday 23 September

Dining Hall
7.45-8.45am

Breakfast and Coffee
9.00-10.00am
Parallel Sessions 9
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
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
Universal Reformation c.1700
Chair: Pietro Corsi
Alexander Schunka (Forschungszentrum Gotha, University of Erfurt)
Reformed Irenicism and Protestant Connections between England and Central Europe in the Early Eighteenth Century
Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London)
Leibniz as Universal Reformer
Foyer, Ruth Deech Building
11.00-11.30am

Tea and Coffee
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
11.30-12.30pm

Keynote Lecture
Chair: Charles Webster
Howard Hotson (University of Oxford)
The Three Foreigners Revisited
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, Ruth Deech Building
12.30-1.30pm

Closing Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Piotr Wilczek
Dining Hall
1.30-2.30pm

Buffet Lunch and Depart

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