Thinking Through the Ages - (15-16 Oct.)
This conference is the final event organized in the project History of Philosophy and History of Ideas 600 BC-1800 AD: Research Training. The project, which is financed by NFR, is a cooperation between the the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, and the University of Tromsø.
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Call for abstracts
The call is directed at young scholars based in the Nordic countries and working within the history of philosophy and ideas. “Thinking Through The Ages” covers the broad field of the history of philosophy, ideas, theology, and science from the Ancient world down to ca 1800AD.
The conference is devoted to facilitating research training for young, promising scholars with an interest in the history of thinking and philosophy. Each presentation will be followed by questions and discussion including feedback from senior researchers. Three weeks before the conference, drafts/papers to be presented will be distributed among the participants in order to ensure optimal scholarly feedback on the work of each presenter. Also, our Keynote Speakers are prominent researchers in their fields and will contribute to the discussions.
Please send your abstract to Charlotte.Hallberg@uib.no by 27 August.
Reasonable expenses for each presenter will be covered up to NOK 5000,-.
Should the number of abstracts exceed the number of possible plenary presentations, there will be a selection among the abstracts. For such an eventuality, each will be informed of the outcome by 3 September
Program
Program
Keynote speaker:
Eyjólfur K. Emilsson (University of Oslo): "Leibniz, Plato, Plotinus: Leibniz's Platonism Explored"
Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki): "Justice to the living: Caring for the world as caring for oneself in ancient philosophy"
