There will be a charge of £40.00 for the 2 days (concessions £20.00)
AMENDED PROGRAMME
17 June
10.00 Doors open - Registration
10.10 Welcome
Session 1 Matter and appetite
Chair: Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute)
10.15 Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College, Oxford)
The fields of appetitus: semantic considerations
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Cesare Pastorino (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
The notion of consensus in Francis Bacon’s matter theory
12.15 Miranda Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Hybrid humans: Renaissance paradigms of appropriation and adaptation
1.00 Lunch in the Institute Common Room (for invited guests)
Session 2 Knowledge and transformation of reality
Chair : Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
2.00 Ian Stewart (University of King’s College, Halifax)
Ex analogia hominis, et non ex analogia universi: Appetites of matter and the ‘repair’ of the senses
2.45 Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
Experimenting with spirits
3.30 Tea
4.00 Marta Fattori (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Prolongatio vitae e euthanasia in Francis Bacon
5.30 Reception
6.00 The Oxford Francis Bacon - Meeting of the Editorial Board
7.00 Supper at the Institute (for invited guests)
18 June
10.00 Doors open - Registration
Session 3 Appetites, passions and imaginations
Chair: Kathryn Murphy (Jesus College, Oxford)
10.15 Sir Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies, University of London)
The role of the passions in Bacon’s rhetoric.
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Peter Mack (Warburg Institute)
Francis Bacon on rhetoric and the imagination
12.15 Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
Bacon and ingenuity
1.00 Lunch in the Institute Common Room (for invited guests)
Session 4 Natural and human appetites
Chair: Sir Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies)
2.00 Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Francis Bacon and ‘the inquirie TOVCHING HVMANE NATVRE ENTYER’
2.45 Sophie Weeks (University of Leeds)
Bacon on the double nature of good
3.30 Tea
4.00 Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest)
Francis Bacon and the motions of the mind:
Materialist accounts and metaphorical uses
4.45 Vera Keller (University of Oregon)
Natural prudence: Bacon on policy and science reconsidered
5.30 Conference closes
Conference registration fee: £ 40.00 (Concessions £ 20.00)
Early registration is recommended. Please contact Elizabeth.Witchell(at)sas.ac.uk