PROGRAM

Friday, March 1

9:30 – 10:00   Coffee
Morning Session | Chair: Sorana Corneanu

10:00 – 11:00  Guido Giglioni (The Warburg Institute, London), Bacon on the Human Soul: Between Perpetual Rest and Eternal Sabbath
11:00 – 12:00  Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Idolatry, the Fallen Mind and the Interpretation of Nature

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session | Chair: Guido Giglioni

13:30 – 14:30  James Lancaster (The Warburg Institute, London), Francis Bacon and the Material Soul
14:30 – 15:30 Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Body, Soul and Human Nature: Bacon in Medico-Theological Context

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee

16:00 – 17:00 Daniel Andersson (Oxford University), Two Chimeras: Scepticism and Naturalism in the Discourse of Elizabethan Practical Divinity

Saturday, March 2

9:30 – 10:00   Coffee
Morning Session | Chair: Dana Jalobeanu

10:00 – 11:00  Silvia Manzo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata – CONICET), Matter, God and the Order of Nature from Chaos to the Postlapsarian Age
11:00 – 12:00  Steven Matthews (University of Minnesota Duluth), Eriugena’s Cosmos and the Baconian Vision

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session | Chair: James Lancaster

13:30 – 14:30  Giuliano Mori (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University College London), The Order of the World in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
14:30 – 15:30  Chiara Petrolini (The Warburg Institute, London), Men go to China both by Straits and by Cope: Tobie Matthew between Francis Bacon and the Jesuits

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee

16:00 – 18:00 Roundtable: Francis Bacon and Religion Reconsidered