2nd Narses workshop, Ermoupolis, 2-4 July 2014
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