Programme
Thursday 13.IX
Sali 19, University Main Building (new site)
13.15-14.15
Tupu Ylä-Anttila (Helsinki)
Mary of Hungary and Erasmus - How Should a Princess Use Her Learning?
14.30-15.30
Matthew Growhoski (Vanderbilt)
Poetry, Politics, and Other Distractions: The Influence of Extracurricular Reading on the Ideological Development of John Milton and John Barclay”.
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00
Melike Çakan (Helsinki)
Francis Bacon’s Civil Knowledge and Renaissance scientia civilis
Friday 14.IX
Auditorium 1, University Main Building (old site)
10.00-11.00
Kaarlo Havu (Helsinki)
Rhetoric and Imagination in the 16th Century. From Erasmus to the Jesuits
11.15-12.15
Angus Gowland (UCL)
Reading before Response: Humanists, Scholars, and Pedants in Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30
Jaska Kainulainen (Helsinki/York)
Jesuits, Rhetoric and ‘imitatio’
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.00
Anna Becker (Copenhagen)
Gender in the State of Nature