The Alchemist by Mattheus van Helmont
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Workshop of the associated project “Fermentation: A Cultural History of Knowledge” by Dr. Carmen Schmechel
June 16-17, 2022
Freie Universität, Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers: Carmen Schmechel (FU), Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre)
Sponsored by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Grant agreement no. 432256662; Freie Universität Berlin; CRC 980 „Episteme in Motion”.
The conference will be streamed online; please mark your calendars.
To register for WebEx link, and for any other questions please contact transformations.of.matter[at]gmail.com
Programme
Thursday, 16.06.2022
Afternoon14:00 –14.15 Carmen Schmechel and Antonio Clericuzio Opening of conference
14:15–15:00 Fabrizio Baldassarri: At the Roots of Life: Vegetation and Matter in Premodern Times
15:00–15:45 Elisabeth Moreau: Bodily Moistures in Late Renaissance Physiology
16:00–16:45 Hiro Hirai: Seeds of Things in Early Modern Philosophy of Matter (online)
16:45–17:00 Coffee break 17:00–18:00 Keynote Antonio Clericuzio: Mechanism and Chemistry in Early Modern Italy
Friday, 17.06.2022
Morning 10:30–11:15 Guido Giglioni: Fermenting Matter, or How Francis Glisson Combined Bacon’s Corpuscularianism with the Helmontian Chemistry of Vital Ideas
11:30–12:15 Sorana Corneanu: The Baconian Logic of Material Motions
13:15–14:00 Jo Hedesan: Fire and Medical Alchemy (online)
14:00–14:45 Carmen Schmechel: Spirits and Fermentations in alchemia medica
15:00–15:45 Jonathan Regier: Divine Heat: Immanence, Immortality and Material Change in Cardano's Philosophy
15:45–16:30 Charles Wolfe: Soul as Mind, Soul as Organism: Two Naturalization Strategies in the Enlightenment
17:00–18:00 Keynote Anne Eusterschulte: Athanasius Kircher's Theories on the Inner Life of the Earth within the Context of Philosophical Presuppositions
18:00 Carmen Schmechel and Antonio Clericuzio Closing remarks
Zeit & Ort
16.06.2022 - 17.06.2022
Freie Universität Berlin, streamed over Webex