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