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Contacts:
elizabeth.claire (at) ehess.fr ; beatrice.delaurenti (at) ehess.fr ; poma (at) u-pec.fr ; koen.vermeir (at) univ-paris-diderot.fr
The concept of imagination is today seen as as a legitimate object of study, having long been discredited by scientific research. However, in modern and contemporary literature, imagination is generally considered in a negative way, as a mental faculty that can cause disease, error, illusion or sin. By cons, its role was very important, because the imagination formed the necessary link between body and soul.
So that was the preferred place to act to perform bodily healing as well as spiritual.
We would go against this idea of imagination by studying intellectual tradition and alternative and misunderstood practice. Since the XIIth and XIIIth centuries until the early XIXth century, thinkers and practitioners from a diverse set of disciplines, expressing themselves from different institutional positions, supported the idea that imagination has great powers on the body and on the body and mind of others.
As in the previous years, the seminar will work around these texts in the manner of a workshop, and will endeavor to implement a collective work of discussion, analysis and comparison of sources over the long term.
SCHEDULE 2020-2021
On Fridays (webconference)
March 19, 2021 | April 16 | May 21 |
- 9am–10:30am : Benoit Grévin (CNRS / CRH),
Boncompagno, l’intellectus imaginarius et la transumptio. "Imaginer" le monde à travers la métaphore au XIIIe siècle
- 10:45am–12:15am : Nicolas Weill-Parot (EPHE/Saprat)
Action à distance et imagination dans les commentaires de la Physique d’Aristote (XIIIe-XVe siècle)
- 1:30pm–3pm : Thibaut Trochu (University of Lille/INSPE)
L’imagination religieuse selon William James
- 3:15pm–4:45pm : Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Misère et grandeur Della forza della fantasia umana (1745) de Ludovico Muratori
- 9am–10:30am : Suzanne Rochefort (CRH)
L’imagination comme exercice dans les traités d’art de l’acteur au XVIIIe siècle
- 10:45am–12:15am : Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Mollesse du corps et force de l’imagination dans l’éducation des enfants (XVI-XVII siècles)
- 1:30pm–3pm: Jean-Pierre Cavaillé (EHESS / CRH)
Magie naturelle et pouvoir de l’imagination dans quelques textes du XVIIe siècle : Campanella, Gaffarel, Naudé
- 3:15pm–4:45pm : RMarion Lieutaud (University of Paris Sorbonne)
Pouvoirs de l’imagination et contractions de l’âme chez Giordano Bruno
:: Session together with the seminar of History of dance.
- 9am : welcome
- 9:15am-9:45am
Elizabeth Claire (CNRS / CRH) & Roberto Poma (UPEC)
Introduction sur la notion de la contagion en danse (l’exemple du vertige)
- 9:45am–10:45am
Béatrice Delaurenti (EHESS / CRH)
La contagion du bâillement et le pouvoir de l’imagination
- Break
- 11am–12:30am
Gregor Rohmann (Université de Francfort)
With or without contagion: Dancing Mania before and after the 1518 outbreak (in english)
- Lunchbreak
- 2pm–13:30pm
Alessandro Arcangeli (Univsité de Vérone)
On the archaeology of the notion of dancing mania: of Tunisian women, and other stories (in english)
- Break
- 3:45pm–5:15pm
Thibaut Julian (CRH)
Avant/après : l’imagination contagieuse du spectacle théâtral, de Diderot à Talma
Also in this section :
- Seminar of the Centre CHSPAM 2020–2021
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
- History and Philosophy of Mathematics 2020-2021
- Mathematics from Ancient to Modern Age 2020–2021
- Reading Mathematical Texts 2020–2021
- Mathematics 19th – 21st, History and Philosophy 2020–2021
- Reading group of cuneiform mathematical texts 2020–2021
- Seminar PhilMath Intersem 11.2021
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE OF NATURE
- History and Philosophy of Physics 2020–2021
- AXIS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MEDECINE
- Medical humanities 2020–2021
- Knowledge and field in health: ethical and epistemological issues 2020–2021
- AXIS HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN AGE
- Seminar of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy: "Telling and Thinking the Future" 2020–2021
- AXIS INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
- History of Science, History of Text 2020–2021
- Historical, philosophical and anthropological approaches to numbers, measurement and measurability 2020–2021
- Seminar of the PhDs Students of SPHERE 2020–2021
- The "arts of thinking" mathematics 2020–2021