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SCIENCE AND THE OCCULT - from Antiquity through the Early Modern Period
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
APRIL 20, 2012 (Friday)
Hosted by the Department of History and supported by the Bilsland-Puskas Initiative endowment at Purdue University
Contact: Angela Catalina Ghionea at email: ghionea@purdue.edu
Agenda:
Panel I Astrology and Astronomy
Chair: Angela C. Ghionea
Sophisticated prognosis or simple divination? “The Sphere of Life and Death” in England, 1100-1500
Jo Edge
Department of History, Royal
Holloway, University of London, UK
“By Aid of the Good Star”: Astrological prognosis in Ibn Sina
Coeli Fitzpatrick
Department of
Philosophy, Grand Valley State University, MI, USA
“The Sol and Jupiter of this sphere”: Theatrical alchemy in
Jonson’s “Mercury Vindicated from the
Alchemists at Court”
Katherine Shrieves
Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA
Questions addressed
Panel II
Alchemy and Science
Chair: James R. Farr
Alchemical
Cosmology in the Sixteenth Century
Nancy L. Turner, Keynote Speaker
Chair of Social Sciences Department and History
Program, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA; President of Societas
Alchimica.
The Orwin publications of George Ripley's
Compound of Alchemy (1591) and the English Faust Book (1592): A coincidental
John Dee-Edward Kelley connection, intentional suppression, or both?
Teresa Burns
Chair of Humanities Department, University of Wisconsin-Platteville,
USA. Founder of Societas Alchimica
The Divine Word and the Power of Sound in Alchemical Recipes
Angela C.
Ghionea
Purdue University, Department of History
Indiana University, Department of History
Questions addressed
Lunch Break (presenters escorted to Sagamore Restaurant – courtesy of Puskas-Bilsland)
Panel III
Magic and Witchcraft
Chair: Angela
C. Ghionea
Magic, Science, Witchcraft and the Problems
of Evidence
Edward Bever, Keynote Speaker
Chair of
History & Philosophy Department,
SUNY-Old
Westbury (State Univeristy of New York), USA
The Historical and Economic Concepts of Treasure Hunting
Johannes Dillinger,
Brookes, Oxford University, UK
Heisenberg Scholar of the German Research
Foundation at
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
“Balneum Diaboli”: Demonism, Delusion, and
Reformation in early Enlightenment Scotland
Paul Jenkins,
Department
of History,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Questions addressed
Panel IV
Religion and Spiritualism
Chair:
Natalie E Latteri
The Esoteric Tradition in “Don Quixote”
Criticism: Uncovering the Silenced Voices of Inquisition-Era Spain?
Massimiliano A. Giorgini
Ivy Tech Community College
Stepping between the Two Worlds: A Study of Modern
Spiritualist Ministers and their
Mediumship
Todd Jay Leonard
Fukuoka
University of Education, Munakata, Japan
Preaching against Heresy: Witchcraft persecutions in Toulouse in 1562
Alex Karim Baccouche
Department of
History, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Questions addressed
- Keynote speakers
- Participants and Papers: download the PROGRAM
- Location: Purdue Memorial Union Room 118
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