Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

Seminar EHESS/CNRS organised by Elizabeth Claire (CNRS), Béatrice Delaurenti (EHESS, CRH-AHLoMA), Roberto Poma (University Paris Est-Créteil) and Koen Vermeir (CNRS)
The seminar is financed by the CRH, Sphere, UPEC ; May 12 is funded by ANR ANTHRAME.

Contacts :
elizabeth.claire (at) ehess.fr ; beatrice.delaurenti (at) ehess.fr ; poma (at) u-pec.fr ; koen.vermeir (at) univ-paris-diderot.fr

The notion of imagination is today considered as an object of study in its own right, after having long been discredited by scientific research. Nevertheless, in modern and contemporary literature, the imagination is generally presented in a negative way, as a mental faculty capable of causing error, illusion or sin. We would like to go against this conception by studying an alternative and little-known intellectual and practical tradition : from the 12th-13th centuries to the beginning of the 19th century, thinkers and practitioners belonging to various disciplines, expressing themselves from various institutional positions, have supported the idea that the imagination possesses great powers.
As in previous years, the seminar will work from and around the texts in the manner of a workshop, by endeavoring to implement a collective work of discussion, analysis and confrontation of sources over the long term.

PROGRAM 2022-2023

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Sessions will be in person and in webconference. To get the connection link and allow us to contact you, thanks to register on https://participations.ehess.fr

Friday March 10, 2023, postponed to June 9

Friday April 14

Friday May 12

June 9

Friday April 14 (Location tba)

• 9:15am - 10:45am
  Naama Cohen Hanegbi (Université de Tel Aviv)
  Imagining a Cure : A Dangerous (But Funny) Interplay between Literature and Medicine in Celestina

• 11am - 12:30am
  Martin Dumont (UPEC)
  Les imaginaires de la transplantation, entre impulsion et obstacle. Histoire et clinique de. s greffes

• 4:45pm - 3:15pm
  Béatrice Delaurenti (EHESS, CRH)
  Du pouvoir de l’âme au pouvoir de l’imagination : réception et transformation d’une doctrine d’Avicenne (XIIIe-XVe siècle)

• 3:30pm - 5pm
  Violaine Giacomotto Charra (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, Centre Montaigne)
  L’imagination dans les traités vulgarisés. II. Le regard des médecins

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Friday May 12 (Location tba)

• 9:15am - 10:45am
  Véronique Decaix (Université de Paris I)
  Les éléphants d’Albert le Grand. La fabrique de l’imaginaire

• 11am - 12:30am
  Fernando Salmon (Université de Santander)
  Trust, hope, emotions and the healing encounter in the Middle Ages

• 1:45pm - 3:15pm
  Marie Gall (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, Centre Montaigne)
  Mobiliser l’imagination dans l’élaboration d’hypothèses scientifiques : le cas des fictions scientifiques du XVIIe siècle

• 3:30pm - 5pm
  Claire Gantet (Université de Fribourg)
  Un instinct presque surnaturel. Le rêve dans les Lettres sur l’imagination (1794) de Jakob Heinrich Meister

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Friday June 9 (Location tba)

• 9:15am - 10:45am
  Roberto Poma (UPEC)
  L’imagination du médecin

• 11:15am - 12:30am
  Elizabeth Claire (CNRS, CRH)
  Imagination et vertige

• 1:45pm - 5pm
  Elizabeth Claire (CNRS, CRH), Béatrice Delaurenti (EHESS, CRH), Roberto Poma (UPEC), Koen Vermeir (CNRS, SPHere)
  L’imagination et le corps, atelier autour d’un livre en préparation

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