Tours, April 2018 & Wittenberg May 2018

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1 Tours, April 2018 & Wittenberg May 2018 From Wittenberg to Rome, and Beyond Giordano Bruno: Will, Power, and Being Law, Philosophy, and Theology in the Early Modern Era Bruno Festival, 3 rd edition Draft version Working theme That a profound sensitivity towards spirituality penetrates all Giordano Bruno's philosophy as Eugenio Garin puts it in his L'umanesimo italiano in no way can be denied [ ]. A religious inspiration goes through and inflames all his writings, although it later lead him even to the blasphemy against the Christian religion. As the statement suggests, religion actually reveals to be indispensable for an adequate understanding of Giordano Bruno's thought and hence for a correct appreciation of attitudes like, on the one hand, his defence of an infinite universe in cosmology or, on the other hand, his anthropological positions and the importance he gave to philosophy by considering it as an ethical and historical mission. Starting from a re-evaluation of Christianity after Luther s Reform, the event aims to discuss Giordano Bruno's contribution to the history of modern ideas by focusing in particular on theological, moral, and legalpolitical aspects of his philosophy, and by comparing his views to other significant sixteenth-century writers, who include: his fellow countrymen Alberico Gentili and Tommaso Campanella, the masters of the School of Salamanca, François Hotman, Michel de Montaigne, François Bauduin, Celio Secondo Curione, and Jean Bodin. In continuity with the first 2 editions of the event and the meetings that preceded it, special attention will be paid to Bruno s last philosophical teaching: his Wittenberg period and the role of the city in the second half of the sixteenth century, the Frankfurt trilogy, the treatises on magic, and the trial documentation. Events of Bruno Festival for its 3 rd edition An international colloquium: Tours, April 26-27, 2018; Wittenberg, May 17-18, 2018 A sixteenth-century music concert and/or a theatrical- historical spectacle : Wittenberg, May 17, 2018 Organising and financing bodies Bruno Festival, 3rd edition, is part of a cooperation between the following European institutions: Le Studium, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies Le Studium of Orleans; Centre for Research in Political Theology (CRIPT) at the School of Law of Birkbeck College, University of London; Centre d Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at 'François Rabelais' University of Tours, with the cooperation of: 'Martin Luther' University of Halle-Wittenberg, Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt of Wittenberg, the Institut Romand de Systématique et d'éthique (IRSE) at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of University of Geneva. Moral patrons: Società Dante Alighieri (Berlin, Tours), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Paris) Scientific Responsibility: Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo (Le Studium, Orléans and CESR, Tours; CRIPT, Birkbeck, Un. London) With the Cooperation of: Elisabeth Blum (Loyola University Maryland); Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland); Angelika Bonker-Vallon (University of Kassel); Matthias Kaufmann (MLU Halle-Wittenberg); Paul-Alexis Mellet (CESR, Tours); Stefan Rhein (Stiftung Luthergedenkstatten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Wittenberg)

2 TOURS, April 26-27, 2018 Thursday April 26, : Morning Session Law, Theology, and Politics in Bruno's Philosophy and His Time Chair: Paul-Alexis Mellet (CESR, Tours) Welcome Addresses and Opening Remarks Alberto Bondolfi (University of Geneva) Quel rôle pour la théologie dans le De potestate civili de Francisco de Vitoria? Elisabeth Blum (Loyola University Maryland) Irenic Policy Gasparo Contarini s Dialogue with the Protestants Coffee Break Maria Stefania Montecalvo (University of Foggia) Celio Secondo Curione: Re-Discovery of Classicism, Religious Reform, and Political Change George Garnett (St Hugh's College, University of Oxford) Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo (Le Studium, Orléans and CESR, Tours) Bruno, Gentili, Bodin, and the Western Legal Tradition: Magic, Ethics, Anthropology Lunch Break Thursday April 26, : Afternoon Session Magic, Science, and Philosophical Discourse on Soul and Immortality Chair: Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo (Le Studium, Orléans and CESR, Tours) Hilary Gatti ('Sapienza' University of Roma) Giordano Bruno s Ash Wednesday Supper as a Prelude to Galileo s Dialogue on the Two Major World Systems Ignacio Gómez de Liaño Alamillo (Complutense University of Madrid) Bruno's Magic: Science and Power Coffee Break Angelika Bönker-Vallon (University of Kassel) Adam and Eve in Early Modern Anthropology: Giordano Bruno s Position on Preadamitic Life and His Defense of the Concept of Anima mundi Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland) Polemics on Soul and Immortality: The Background of Bruno's Cabala Friday April 27, : Morning Session Religious Warfare, European State-Building, and Literary Polemics Elisabeth Blum (Loyola University Maryland)

3 09.00 Elisabetta Tarantino (University of Oxford) Reading Bruno's Candelaio historically Raffaele Ruggiero (University of Aix-en-Provence-Marseille) François Bauduin and the Model of Roman Jurisprudence in the Early Modern State Building during the European Religious Warfare Coffee break Boudewijn Sirks (All Souls College, University of Oxford) Paul-Alexis Mellet (CESR, Tours) De quoi la Saint-Barthélemy est-elle le nom? Closing Remarks BERLIN, May 11, 2018 Dante Alighieri Society, Berlin Committee Oldenburger Straße 46, Berlin-Moabit Friday May 11, : Wittenberg Colloquium Preview Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo (Le Studium, Orléans and CESR, Tours) Giordano Bruno: religione e libertà di pensiero alle soglie dell'età moderna WITTENBERG, May 17-18, 2018 Thursday May 17, : Morning Session Giordano Bruno s Philosophical Reform: The Notion of Infinite Chair: Matthias Kaufmann ('Martin Luther' University of Halle-Wittenberg) Welcome Addresses and Opening Remarks Angelika Bönker-Vallon (University of Kassel) Cosmology after Copernicus: Innovation and Restoration in Giordano Bruno s The Ash Wednesday Supper Dilwyn Knox (University College London) Natura est Deus in rebus: Bruno and Iamblichus Coffee break Miguel Ángel Granada (University of Barcelona) God and Space: Their Connection in the Philosophy of Giordano Bruno

4 11.45 Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland) Two Versions of Infinite: Cusanus and Bruno Lunch Break Thursday May 17, : Afternoon Session Christian Religion and European Politics after Luther Chair: Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland) Matthias Kaufmann ('Martin Luther' University of Halle-Wittenberg) The Concept of Law in Light of the Spaccio della bestia trionfante Jean-Paul De Lucca (University of Malta) Nature, Law, and Religion in Bruno s Spaccio della bestia trionfante and Campanella s Ateismo trionfato Saverio Ricci (University of Tuscia, Viterbo) Campanella and Islam Coffee Break Matthias Roick (University of Göttingen) Approaching the Exceptional. Giordano Bruno s Works in the Book Collection of August the Younger, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg Sergius Kodera (University of Vienna) Topographies of Desire in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio (1582) Thomas Leinkauf (University of Münster) Religious Reforms in Music: A Concert In collaboration with the Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt Friday May 18, : Morning Session Ethics, Law, and Natural Philosophy Chair: Angelika Bönker-Vallon (University of Kassel) Elisabeth Blum (Loyola University Maryland) Panpsychism in Bruno and Campanella Raffaele Carbone ('Federico II' University of Naples) Ethics and Law in Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne Coffee break Alberto Bondolfi (University of Geneva) Wie evoluiert die Lehre des Widerstandsrecht in der reformierten Reformation?

5 Zwingli, Calvin und die französischen Monarchomachen Alain A. Wijffels (University of Leiden) Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo (Le Studium, Orléans and CESR, Tours) Bruno s Christianity in Light of His Trial Closing Remarks