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UPSTATE NEW YORK EARLY MODERN WORKSHOP
UNYWEMP Schedule for 2009-2010 (all meetings at 3pm):
October 4th, 2009
Speaker: Kara Richardson, Syracuse University
Title: "Descartes on the Causal Powers of Bodies without Substantial Forms"
Commentator: Shoshana Brassfield
November 1st, 2009
Speaker: Melissa Zinkin, Binghamton University
Title: "Kant's supersensible substratum of humanity"
Commentator: Tatiana Patrone, Ithaca CollegeNovember 22nd, 2009 (CANCELLED)
Speaker: Hylarie Kochiras, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Title: "Two senses of activity, and gravity, in Newton's Treatise "
Commentator: Jonathan Peeters, Ithaca College
December 6th, 2009
Speaker: Jonathan Peeters, Ithaca College
Title: "Descartes and Newton on the (in)divisibility of space"
Commentator: TBA
January 31st, 2010
Speaker: Diane Williamson, LeMoyne College
Topic: "Kant and the unconcious"
Commentator: Corey McCall, Elmira College
March 7th, 2010: Descartes Day
9am-5pm, Syracuse University
Speakers: Raffaella de Rosa (Rutgers), Kurt Smith (Bloomberg), Colin McLear (Cornell), Shoshana Brassfield
Commentators: Benjamin Hill (Western Ontario), Kimberly Blessing (Buffalo State), others TBA
April 11, 2010
Speaker: TBA
Commentator: TBA
All meetings in the Fall term will be held at Cornell University, 156 or 158 Goldwin Smith Hall (map)
All meetings in the Spring term will be held at Syracuse University, Room 538 in the Hall of Languages (map)
If you have questions or would like to sign up for Spring 2010, please let us know.
October 5th, 2008
Speaker: Stefanie Rocknak, Hartwick College
Title: "Naturalistic, Pre-Theoretical Belief in Book I of Hume's Treatise."
Commentator: Alex Klein, Cornell University
November 16th, 2008
Speaker: Peter Dear, Cornell University
Title: "Early Modern Conceptions of Reason"
Commentator: Kara Richardson, Syracuse University
December 7th, 2008
Speaker: Sukjae Lee, Ohio State (visiting at Cornell)
Title: "Berkeley on the Activity of Spirits"
Commentator: Melissa Frankel, Syracuse University
February 15, 2009
Speaker: Aaron Koller, Syracuse University
Title: "Reassessing Baumgarten's Contribution to Aesthetics"
Commentator: Kara Richardson, Syracuse University
March 8, 2009, 2 PM **NOTE SPECIAL MEETING TIME**
Speaker: Pablo Muchnik, Siena College
Title: "An Alternative Proof of the Universal Propensity to Evil"
Commentator: Melissa Zinkin, Binghamton University
April 19, 2009 meeting is canceled but we have now added...
May 9th, 2009: Berkeley Bonanza (at Cornell, Goldwin Smith Hall 158)
First session, 10:00-11:30
Speaker: Melissa Frankel, Syracuse
Title: "Berkeley and the Argument from Illusion"
Commentator: Jonathan Peeters, Ithaca College
Second session, 11:45-1:15
Speaker: Georges Dicker, SUNY-Brockport
Title: “'An Idea Can Be Like Nothing But An Idea'—Another Try"
Commentator: Wade Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lunch, 1:15-2:30
Third Session, 2:30-4:00
Speaker: Alex Klein, Cornell University
Title: "In Defense of Berkeley's Empiricism?"
Commentator: P.D. Magnus, University of Albany
Coffee Break, 4:00-4:30
Plenary Session, 4:30-6:30
Speaker: Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title: "Berkeley's Last Word on Spirit "
Commentator: Sukjae Lee, Ohio State
Dinner, 7:00