News
Talks:
Seminar 'Cultures Of Knowledge In Early Modern Europe',
Trinity Term 2010 - Thursdays 3-5pm, Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History, Oxford:
Thursday 10 June:
Dirk van Miert (Huygens Institute) 'The Seventeenth Century Culture of Editing Scholarly Correspondence: The Case of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609);
Paul Botley (Warburg Institute) 'The Letters of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) and Richard Thomson (c.1570-1613)'
See: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/cofk/events/seminars-2009-10
Conference: John Selden, 1584-1654: Scholarship in Context
Thursday 24th – Saturday 26th June 2010, Magdalen College, Oxford
24 June 2010
Dirk van Miert (Hugyens Institute); ‘Joseph Scaliger as a model for John Selden’
See: http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/selden/
Exhibitions:
Visit on-line the exhibitions held in the University Library of Leiden about Joseph Scaliger (2005) and about Justus Lipsius (2006):
http://bc.ub.leidenuniv.nl/bc/tentoonstelling/scaliger/http://bc.ub.leidenuniv.nl/bc/tentoonstelling/Justus_Lipsius/
Past
Conference
The legacy of Joseph Scaliger
Leiden, 5-7 November 2009
A three-day conference marking the fourth centenary of the death of Scaliger.
Speakers will include Paul Botley, Harm-Jan van Dam, Karl Enenkel, Anthony Grafton, Kristine Haugen, Henk Jan de Jonge, Dirk van Miert, Willem Otterspeer, and others.
For more information on Leiden commemorating Scaliger, see:
http://www.library.leiden.edu/faculty/scaliger-institute/commemoration-scaliger-1609-2009.jsp
Talks
6 November 2009: ‘The ‘French face’ of Joseph Scaliger: his lieux de mémoire in France’, The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger, Leiden, University Library (Dirk van Miert).
5 November 2009: ‘Professionalizing Classical Philology: Daniel Heinsius and the making of Scaliger’s Epistolae’, The Legacy of Joseph Scaliger, Leiden, University Library. (Dirk van Miert).
26 May 2009: ‘De filoloog met de hamer’. Radicale filologie in de briefwisseling van Joseph Scaliger’, Weekly departmental lecture, History Department, University of Amsterdam. (Dirk van Miert).
4 December 2008: 'Scaliger Scatologus'. Public lecture by Dirk van Miert at the University of Amsterdam, PC Hoofthuis, room 1.04, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB, Amsterdam, 16:30-18:00.
21 January 2009: Scaliger 4th centenary memorial lecture by Anthony Grafton, Leiden University (Title, time and place to be anounced).
4-6 July 2008: ‘Philology and the Roots of Empiricism: Textual Criticism and the Observation of the World’, Erudition and Empiricism: The Intertwining of the Humanities and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe, Panel Proposal for the Three Societies 2008, Oxford, 4-6 July, 2008 (Dirk van Miert).
18 April 2008: ‘Joseph Scaliger and Bonaventura Vulcanius’, Colloquium Bonaventura Vulcanius, a humanist beyond borders, Leiden, Scaliger Institute (Dirk van Miert)
‘The French Connection: From Isaac C. to Isaac V.’, November 2007, Amsterdam, International Colloquium: Between Science and the Humanities: the Wonderful World of Isaac Vossius (1618-1689), The Hague, Huygens Institute. (Dirk van Miert)
‘Scaliger Scatologus: the rhetoric of abuse’, October 2007: London French Seminar, Stewart House, University of London. (Dirk van Miert)
‘José Justo Escalígero: entre calvinismo y filología', September 2007: Sevilla, Letras peligrosas. Antigüedad y conflicto religioso en el Humanismo, Curso de Verano, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. (Dirk van Miert)
‘Scaliger Scatologus’, Cambridge, Symposium on the Notion of Obscenity in Renaissance France, July 2007, Clare College, Cambridge. (Dirk van Miert)
‘Philology and the Roots of Empiricism: Observations and descriptions in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger’, June 2007, London, Observation in Early Modern Letters 1500-1650, International Colloquium, Warburg Institute. (Dirk van Miert)
'Learning, Nobility and the Transgression of Civility in the Republic of Letters around 1600', March 2007: Miami, Florida, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. (Dirk van Miert)
“‘Propter historiam retinenda”: Scaliger, Salmasius and the discovery of the Anthologia Palatina’, February 2007 Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies, Clare College, Cambridge. (Dirk van Miert)
'Language and Communication in the Republic of Letters: the uses of Latin and French in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger’, 17 January 2007: Republics of Letters’ seminar, All Souls College Oxford. (Dirk van Miert)
'The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters: Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon and their Catholic correspondents', December 2006: International Conference Between Scylla and Charybdis. Learned Letter Writers Navigating Along the Cliffs of Politics and Religion (1500-1700), The Hague. (Dirk van Miert)
'Aanspraak maken op tekst: onbekende brieven van Salmasius aan Scaliger over de ontdekking van de Anthologia Palatina', Deventer, November 2006: Annual meeting of the Nederlands Neolatinistenverband. (Dirk van Miert)
'Confessionalisation in the Republic of Letters: the Case of Joseph Scaliger', Budapest, August 2006: Annual Conference of the International Association of Neo-Latin Studies (Dirk van Miert).
'Aanspraak maken op tekst: onbekende brieven van Salmasius aan Scaliger over de ontdekking van de Anthologia Palatina', Deventer, 10 November 2006: Annual meeting of the Nederlands Neolatinistenverband (Dirk van Miert).
[Provisional title:] 'Transconfessionality in the letters of Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon', Leuven/The Hague, 14-16 December 2006: Between Scylla and Charybdis. Learned Letter Writers Navigating Along the Cliffs of Politics and Religion (1500-1700) (Dirk van Miert).
'Latin and the Vernacular in the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger', Oxford, 17 January 2007: Republics of Letters’ seminar, All Souls College (Dirk van Miert).
'Learning, Nobility and the Transgression of Civility in the Republic of Letters around 1600', Miami, 23-24 March 2007, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Dirk van Miert).
'Allopresentatie in vroegmoderne teksteditie: redactie en censuur in Daniel Heinsius' uitgave van Joseph Scaligers brieven (1627)', Leiden, 28 April 2006: Leiden University, Classics Department (Dirk van Miert).
'The Letters of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609)', London, 2 March 2006: Lunchtime Lecture, The Warburg Institute (Paul Botley & Dirk van Miert).
'La franqueza de José Escalígero', Alcañiz, 10 May 2005: IV Congreso internacional de humanismo y pervivencia del mundo clásico (Dirk van Miert).