Workshop on Early-Modern Political Thought

Project: Participatory Politics & State Formation in Early-Modern England project, 1-2 September 2016

1-2 September 2016

University of Helsinki

 Auditorium IV, Unioninkatu 34

 

 

Thursday, 1 September

 

10.00 – 11.00             Kaarlo Havu,

                                                    ‘Ethos and authority in Erasmian republic of letters’

 

11.00 – 11.15             coffee

 

11.15 – 12.15             Tupu Ylä-Anttila,

                                                    ‘Mercurino di Gattinara – political advice for a princess in sixteenth-century Europe’

 

12.30 – 14.00             lunch

 

14.00 – 15.00             Aysha Pollnitz,

                                                    ‘Cross-cultural political thought in the early modern world? Testing the possibilities’

                                                   

15.00 – 15.15             coffee

 

15.15 – 16.15             Jaska Kainulainen,

                                                    ‘Isocrates, the Jesuits and civic education’

 

16.15 – 17.15             Martin van Gelderen,

                                                    ‘Reviewing the Dutch Revolt: political thought in the work of Bruegel and Goltzius’

 

 

Friday, 2 September

 

10.00 – 11.00             Cesare Cuttica,

                                                    ‘Popularity in seventeenth-century England: making sense of it’

 

11.00 – 11.15             coffee

 

11.15 – 12.15             Markku Peltonen,

                                                    ‘The republican moment of the English Revolution’

 

12.15 – 14.00             lunch

 

14.00 – 15.00             Gaby Mahlberg,

                                                    ‘Exile and liberty in seventeenth-century English republican thought’

 

15.00 – 15.15             coffee

 

15.15- 16.15               Soile Ylivuori,

                                                    ‘Fashioning human difference: race and artifice in early modern England’

 

16.15- 17.15               Sami Savonius-Wroth,

                                                    ‘The golden age and John Locke’s hopes of an enlightened age’