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Research seminar "Intellectual History" (4th session summer semester 2025)

Date
20. May 2025, 2.15 pm
Location
CG3 – Gotha Research Centre, lecture room (Schloßberg 2, Gotha)
Series
Intellectual History
Organizer
Gotha Research Centre (FZG)
Speaker(s)
Dr Martina Kastnerová (Gotha-Halle-Wolfenbüttel Fellow, Plzeň, Czech Republic) and Elizabeth Carleton (Herzog Ernst Scholarship holder, University of California, USA)
Event type
Lecture
Event Language(s)
English
German
Audience
Public

Research seminar on the early modern history of knowledge and culture at the Gotha Research Centre (Chair: PD Dr Benjamin Steiner)

Lectures by Dr Martina Kastnerová (Gotha-Halle-Wolfenbüttel scholarship holder, Plzeň, Czech Republic) and Elizabeth Carleton (Herzog-Ernst scholarship holder, University of California, USA). The event will take place in hybrid form.

Poster
  • Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Literary Culture. Philip Sidney and Continental Scholars (Dr Martina Kastnerová (Gotha-Halle-Wolfenbüttel Fellow, Plzeň, Czech Republic)). In cooperation with the Francke Foundations in Halle and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, funded by the Dorothee Wilms Foundation.
  • Perfecting Galilieo. Collaborations Between Artist and Astronomer in 17th-Century Europe (Elizabeth Carleton (Duke Ernst Fellow, University of California, USA))

About the series

As a research seminar on the early modern history of knowledge and culture, the Intellectual History colloquium is primarily aimed at researchers in the qualification phase. It offers lectures by doctoral candidates and post-docs who are pursuing their projects at the Research Centre - as members of the graduate centre "History of Knowledge in the Modern Era", as fellows in the Herzog-Ernst Fellowship Programme, as employees in third-party funded projects or as visiting scholars. The seminar offers space for discussion, academic exchange and inspiration.

Participation

The seminar will take place in the lecture hall of the Gotha Research Centre at Schloßberg 2 (CG3) and online. Unless otherwise stated, it will start at 14:15. For the access link please send an e-mail to: forschungszentrum.gotha@uni-erfurt.de

forschungszentrum.gotha@uni-erfurt.de

Herzog Ernst Scholarship Programme

The Herzog-Ernst Fellowship Programme enables scholars to work with the historical holdings of the Gotha Research Library and the Gotha Perthes Collection. It comprises scholarships lasting several months for doctoral candidates and postdocs as well as established researchers. The programme is funded by the Ernst Abbe Foundation.

Further information about the scholarship programmes at the Gotha Research Centre

All dates

8 April 2025

  • The Early Modern Science of Petrification, Locality, and the Gotha Region (ca. 1650–1700) (Ioan-Alexandru Liciu (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiat, Bukarest, Rumänien))
  • Die Gothaer Orient-Aktivitäten als Vorbild und Wissensressource der hallisch-pietistischen „Fürsorge für die alte orientalische Christenheit“ im 18. Jahrhundert (Daniel Haas (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiat, Hamburg))

22 April 2025

  • The Kyivan Metropolitanate and the Eastern Churches. Perception of Eastern Patriarchates by the Orthodox Elite of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries (Illia Rudyk (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiat, Wrocław, Polen))
  • Untersuchung der medizinischen SammelhandschriftenJohanns von Sachsen im Kontext humanistischer Wissensnetzwerke (Melinda Michel (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiatin, Bonn))

6 Mai 2025 | 1:30 pm
Feierliche Begrüßung der diesjährigen Stipendiat:innen
Im Anschluss daran: 

  • Ethiopian lexicography from Hiob Ludolf to the Present (Prof. Dr. Berhanu Asfaw (Hiob-Ludolf-Fellow, Addis Abeba, Äthiopien))

20 Mai 2025

  • Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Literary Culture. Philip Sidney and Continental Scholars (Dr. Martina Kastnerová (Gotha-Halle-Wolfenbüttel-Stipendiatin, Plzeň, Tschechien)) In Kooperation mit den Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, gefördert von der Dorothee Wilms-Stiftung.
  • Perfecting Galilieo. Collaborations Between Artist and Astronomer in 17th-Century Europe (Elizabeth Carleton (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiatin, University of California, USA))

3 Juni 2025

  • Tailoring Politics. Liveries and Courtly Competition in the Holy Roman Empire, 1470–1550 (Sophia Feist (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiatin, Cambridge, U.K.))
  • Beyond „Christian Kabbalah“. Jewish „Mysteria“ and Protestant Theologies around the Turn of the 18th Century (Dr. Marcello Cattaneo (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiat, Jerusalem, Israel))

17 Juni 2025

  • Der Diskurs der „Türkengefahr“ und der „Christenheitsverteidigung“ und die Umgestaltung des Heiligen Römischen Reiches ca. 1453–1529 (Dr. Duncan Hardy (Hiob-Ludolf-Fellow, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA))
  • Girdano Bruno’s Manuscripts in the German Enlightenment (Dr. Filippo Marchetti (Herzog-Ernst-Stipendiat, Pisa, Italien))

1 Juli 2025

  • Serpent Symbolismus. Rubens 'Eherne Schlange' im Kontext der (Gegen-)Reformation (Dr. Wiebke Leister (Hiob-Ludolf-Fellow, London, U.K.))
  • Märchenmotive und Machtkonzepte im Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts (Dr. Dramane Kone (Herzog-Ernst Stipendiat, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire)) 

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