NATURE AND RELIGION IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPEAN SPACE
SECOND NARSES WORKSHOP
Project, Aristeia NARSES

Hermoupolis, Syros, General State Archives, 2-4 July 2014
Organised in the frame of the Seminars of Hermoupolis, Institute of Historical Research, national Hellenic Research Foundation

July 2, afternoon

Coordinator: Efthymios Nicolaidis (IHR/NHRF)

RONALD NUMBERS (University of Wisconsin)
Popular Science and Religion: From Devils to Dinosaurs

MICHAEL SHANK (University of Wisconsin)
Astrology and Politics in the Background to the Galileo Affair

KOSTAS SKORDOULIS (University of Athens)
Science, Religion and the “Holy Family”

July 3, morning
Copordinator: Kostas Skordoulis (University of Athens)

VINCENT JULLIEN (University of Nantes)
Should one renounce to know the Sky? An essential problem of the classical era

MEROPI MORFOULI (SYRTE/Observatoire de Paris)
Institutions de Physique (Marquise du Châtelet) :
Time between Newton’s and Leibniz’s divine theories

MARIE DUPOND (EHESS, Paris)
The relation between science and religion within the Encyclopaedia and, especially, within d’Alembert’s “Preliminary discourse” and the entries written by Claude Yvon (1714-1791) encyclopaedist and theologian

GEORGE VLAHAKIS (Hellenic Open University - IHR/NHRF)
Theatre du Monde or the God of Nature in 19th century Greece

July 3, afternoon
Coordinator: Taxiarchis Kolias (IHR/NHRF – University of Athens)

EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS (IHR/NHRF)
An overview of NARSES project: results until now

NIKOLAOS LIVANOS (IHR/NHRF)
“Astromaniacs shall pay for their impiety!”
Astrology and astrologists in Byzantine hagiographical literature

EUDOXIE DELLI (IHR/NHRF)
Maximus the Confessor and Michael Psellos on “natural contemplation”.
Two guidelines on the relation between religion and science in the byzantine thought: convergences and divergencies

GIANNA KATSIAMPOURA (IHR/NHRF)
The relationship between science and faith in the Byzantine Canon Law

July 4, morning
Round table - General discussion