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’