Program Overview

THURSDAY

8.30-9.45
Registration and Coffee

9.45
Welcome by programme committee

9.50-10.00
Opening of the conference by Director KNIR

KNIR Library:
10.00-10.45
1) PLENARY: HELEN SMALL

10.45-11.15
Coffee break

11.15-13.15
2) The scholarly self: character, habit and virtue in the humanities

11.15-13.15
3) Modes of reading in the humanities

13.15-14.30
Lunch break

14.30-16.00
4) Philosophy and the humanities

14.30-16.00
5) Literature and rhetoric

16:00-16.30
Tea break

16.30-18.00
6) Reason and reasoning

16.30-18.00
7) Counternarratives

KNIR Library:
18.00-18.30
Launch of the journal History of Humanities by Michael Magoulias,
Director Journals at University of Chicago Press. Launch of the History
of Humanities Society

18.30
Reception/drinks


FRIDAY

8.45-9.00
Coffee

KNIR Library:
9.00-9.45
8) PLENARY: FENRONG LIU

KNIR Library:
9.45-10.45
9) Logic and philology in China

10.45-11.15
Coffee break

11.15-13.15
10) Cultural (mis)connections I

11.15-13.15
11) Images and words

13.15-14.30
Lunch break

14.30-16.00
12) Cultural (mis)connections II

14.30-16.00
13) The humanities and the social world

16.00-16.30
Tea break

16.30-18.30
14) Technique of art across disciplines

16.30-18.30
15) Disciplining experiences – experiencing knowledge

20.00
CONFERENCE DINNER


SATURDAY

8.45-9.00
Coffee

KNIR Library:
9.00-9.45
16) PLENARY: HANS-JÖRG RHEINBERGER

KNIR Library:
9.45-10.45
17) Mind and body

10.45-11:15
Coffee break

11.15-13.15
18) Uses and abuses of history

11.15-13.15
19) Historical linguistics

13.15-14.30
Lunch break

14.30-16.00
20) Discipline formation

14.30-16.00
21) Linguistic turns and animosities

16.00-16.30
Tea break

KNIR Library:
16.30-17.30
22) Antiquarianism (includes KNIR Dissertation Prize and presentation of
KNIR Journal Fragmenta, Volume 5)

KNIR Library:
17.30-18.00
Plenary discussion with keynote speakers, chaired by Rens Bod and Julia
Kursell

18.00
Closing


DAY I

1. PLENARY:
Helen Small, University of Oxford, The Subjectivity of the Humanities

2. The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit and Virtue in the Humanities
Organizer: Herman Paul, University of Leiden
Discussant: Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen, University of Roskilde

Léjon Saarloos, University of Leiden, 'A walking encyclopaedia':
scholarly temptations in early twentieth century Britain
Katharina Manteufel, University of Leiden, Professorial families: the
making of scholars in one's own image?
Christiaan Engberts, University of Leiden, Scholarly gossip: negotiating
standards of professional conduct in scholarly correspondences

3. Modes of Reading in the Humanities
Organizers: Henning Trüper and Mario Wimmer

Markus Klammer, University of Basel, Construction and ekphrasis.
'Reading' in Freudian psychoanalysis
Andrew P. Griebler, University of California, Berkeley, Reading
frontispieces
Henning Trüper, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton/Centre de
Recherches Historiques, EHESS, Paris, Enemies of semantics: readings of
late-nineteenth-century Old Testament philology
Mario Wimmer, University of California, Berkeley, Reading myth: K.
Kerenyi and C.G. Jung

4. Philosophy and the Humanities

Carlo Ierna, University of Utrecht, Against the mechanization of the
mind: Brentano's psychology as the ultimate foundational and
interdisciplinary Geisteswissenschaft
Fons Dewulf, Ghent University, The unification of the natural sciences
and the humanities in Carnap's Aufbau, 1928
Liisi Keedus, Tartu University, Thinking beyond philosophy: Hannah
Arendt and the Weimar hermeneutic connections

5. Literature and Rhetoric

Neus Rotger, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, The novel in
between disciplines: poetics, rhetoric and literary history in early
modern France
Levente T. Szabó, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj/Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest, 'We made a modern discipline: comparative
literature'. Hybrid identities and the comparison of literary cultures
in the first international journal of comparative literary studies
Lodewijk Muns, independent scholar, The Hague, Reviving rhetoric:
18th-century music and modern musicology

6. Reason and Reasoning

Mathias Winther Madsen, University of Amsterdam, The War of the Reasons:
statistics, language, and 'Rational Man'.
Floris Solleveld, Radboud University Nijmegen, Styles of reasoning in
the history of the humanities (1750-1800)
Marieke Winkler, Radboud University Nijmegen, Criticism as a connecting
principle: 'modes of subjectivity' in the humanities

7. Counternarratives

Alpita de Jong, independent scholar, Leiden, Those who did not make it
Hendri Schut, Leiden University, From the Drachenfels, looking East...
The Dutch orientalist H.A. Hamaker (1789-1835) as a Romantic scholar: a
case study.
Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Rome campus, Frances Yates:
from magic to cultural criticism


DAY II

9. Logic and Philology in China

Peter van Emde Boas, University of Amsterdam, Strategy theory and games:
did the ancient Chinese invent Game Theory?
Max Fölster, Universität Hamburg, The origins of philology in China

10. Cultural (Mis)Connections I

Sara Gonzalez, British Academy, The making of pre-Hispanic history by
the indigenous elites in eighteenth-century Peru
Thijs Weststeijn, University of Amsterdam, The Chinese challenge:
accommodating East Asia in 17th-century European antiquarianism
Ori Sela, Tel Aviv University, Philosophy's ascendancy in Asia:
categories of knowledge and their historical implications
Gretel Schwoerer-Kohl, University of Freiburg, Music and the making of
humanities in Thailand

11. Images and Words

Bernd Kulawik, Technische Hochschule Zürich, The Accademia della Virtù /
Accademia Vitruviana in Rome (c. 1537-1555). The first international
network of interdisciplinary research
Anna-Maria C. Bartsch, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich,
Establishing Kunstwissenschaften in the 20th century: On the relation of
Formale Ästhetik to a new discipline
Vera Zakharova, European University at St. Petersburg, The making of an
ideal: Wölfflin, portraiture and physiognomy
Adriana Markantonatos, independent scholar, Frankfurt am Main,
'In-Between' - Reinhart Koselleck 'connecting disciplines'

12. Cultural (Mis)Connections II

Oliver Weingarten, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Disciplining philology:
Chinese textual studies before and after the Western impact
Beate Löffler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Japanese architecture and
the consequences of disconnected disciplines
Jidong Li, Nankai University, Tianjin, The Influences of Japanese Kanji
in Modern China

8. PLENARY:
Fenrong Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Ways of Reasoning
Similarities and Difference between Chinese and Western Traditions

13. The Humanities and the Social World

Cynthia M. Pyle, New York University, Applied Renaissance humanism and
the making of the humanities
Borbala Zsuzsanna Török, University of Konstanz, The humanities as
administrative sciences? Revisiting the German (-inspired) sciences of
state, 1750-1850
Matthias Neuber, Universität Tübingen, Ostwald, Weber, and the
foundations of an 'energetic' theory of culture

14. Technique of Art across Disciplines

Chair and discussant: Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science, Berlin Paul Taylor, Warburg Institute, London, Concepts of
technique from Diderot to Doerner
Marjolijn Bol, University of Hamburg, Histories about technique and
techniques for history, 1800-1900
Marco Cardinali, Emmebi Diagnostica Artistica, Rome, The Conference on
the Scientific Analysis of Works of Art, held in Rome in 1930: European
intersection of disciplines, approaches and schools

15. Disciplining Experiences – Experiencing Knowledge
Chair & Commentator: Kaat Wils, Catholic University of Leuven

Camille Creyghton, University of Amsterdam, Taming the archives,
disciplining historical experience
Jan Rock, University of Amsterdam, The experience of reading: the
pleasure of old texts and the establishment of Dutch lexicography and
national history
Arnold Witte, University of Amsterdam, Aesthetic experience and the
development of art history around 1900
Krisztina Lajosi, University of Amsterdam, How musical experiences could
not be replaced by formalism: 20th-century musicology and artistic
practices


DAY III

17. Mind and Body

Nadia Moro, University of Milan/Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Ein
'Spiegel für die geistige Thätigkeit'. Language and categories from
Herbart's psychology to Steinthal's Völkerpsychologie
Robert Zwijnenberg, University of Leiden, The humanities, biotechnology
and bio-art

18. Uses and Abuses of History

Jacques Bos, University of Amsterdam, Ancients and moderns: historical
consciousness, historical method and the disciplines in Early Modern
Europe
Kasper Risbjerk Eskildsen, University of Roskilde, Producing and
reproducing the past in Enlightenment Germany

16. PLENARY:

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin, On the making of historical epistemology
Bart Karstens, University of Amsterdam, The historicization of the world
picture
Katarzyna Jarosz, International University of Logistics, Wroclaw,
Romanian national myths - - Burebista as an example of falsifying
history

19. Historical Linguistics across History and Politics
Organizer: Angela Marcantonio, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'

László Marácz, University of Amsterdam, Contextualizing the making of
the Finno-Ugric languages classification
Juha Janhunen, University of Helsinki-Helsingfors, On the position of
Hungarian in the Ural- Altaic typological belt
Toon Van Hal, Catholic University Leuven,The central place of Persia and
Scythia in some lesser-known representatives of early nineteenth-century
historical linguistics: continuity between the seventeenth and the
nineteenth-century?
Elisabetta Ragagnin, University Ca'Foscari, Venice/University of
Cambridge, Oghuzic language evolution and politics: Turkish and Azeri
compared

20. Discipline Formation

Ida Jahr, University of Oslo, Mapping geopolitics of knowledge: the
diffusion of American Studies in Europe 1945-65
Joris van Zundert & Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Huygens Institute for the
History of the Netherlands/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences, The digital humanities disconnect
Julianne Nyhan, University College London, The role of labels and
metaphors in investigating interconnections between the digital
humanities and the humanities

21. Linguistic Turns and Animosities

Anna Pytlowany, University of Amsterdam & Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez,
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Colonial and missionary
linguistic production in 16th-18th- century Asia as a mirror of European
alliances and animosities
Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The vernacular revolution:
reclaiming early modern grammatical traditions
Jaap Maat, University of Amsterdam, Connecting disciplines in the
history of deaf education

22. Antiquarianism

Jetze Touber, Utrecht University, Reading and measuring antiquities:
textual and metrical aspects of the study of the past around 1700
Han Lamers, Utrecht University, TITLE TBA. Winner of the KNIR
Dissertation Prize