Programme: Collegium Spinozanum.

An International Summer School on Spinoza and Spinozisms in Their

Historical and Philosophical Context (Groningen, 7-10 July 2015)
Tuesday 7 July

The fundaments of Spinozas philosophy

9.00-10.20: Ursula Renz (University of Klagenfurt, Austria): Spinozas epistemology
Break
10.30-11.50: Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires, Canada): Spinozas
theory of affects
Break
12.00-13.20: Matthew Kisner (University of South Carolina, USA): Spinozas ethical theory

Morning
seminars:

13.20-15.00: Lunch (provided)

Student session (I): Metaphysics and epistemology
15.00-15.40: Torin Doppelt (Queens University, Ontario, Canada): Idle Material in Spinozas Ethics
15.40-16.20: Oliver Istvan Toth (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary): Beauty of Green
Plants An Argument for the Positive Role of Aesthetic Experience in Spinozas Ethics Based on a
Reading of E2p39
Break
16.30-17.10: Oberto Marrama (Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires, Canada): Spinoza on fictitious
ideas and possible objects

Afternoon:

17.10-17.50: Anna Tomaszewska (Jagiellonian University, Krakw, Poland): Was Kant (Ever) a
Spinozist?

Wednesday 8
July

Spinoza and the history of philosophy

9.00-10.20: Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen, NL): Spinoza and Aristotle on teleology and
virtue
Break
10.30-11.50: Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen, NL): Spinoza and Hobbes on Biblical Criticism
Break
12.00-13.20: Piet Steenbakkers (Utrecht University, NL): The new critical edition of Spinozas Ethics

Morning
Seminars:

13.20-15.00: Lunch (provided)

Student session (II): The nature of bodies and minds
15.00-15.40: Vincent Legeay (Universit Paris 1-Sorbonne, France): Facing God, facing Nature: mindbody issues untangled and solved by the aptitudo?
15.40-16.20: Razvan Ioan (Leiden University, NL): Spinozas turn to the body

Afternoon:

Break

16.30-17.10: Alexandre Rouette (Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires): The problem of the

coexistence of conatus and the principle of inertia in the Ethics of Baruch Spinoza
17.10-17.50: Filip Buyse (Universit Paris 1-Sorbonne, France): Spinozas Galilean Conception of the
Body
Summer School
Dinner

From 19.00 onward (dinner provided)

Thursday 9
July

Spinozas networks
9.30-10.50: Henri Krop (Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL): Spinozas circle: the case of Abraham
Johannes Cuffeler
Break
11.00-12.20 Han van Ruler (Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL): Was Spinoza a Leiden student?

Morning
seminars:

12.20-13.30: Lunch (provided)

The afternoon will be free. Participants will have the possibility to take part to a half-day trip to Rijnsburg
to visit Spinozas house museum.

Afternoon:

Departure from Groningen at 13.30, planned return around 22.00.

Friday 10 July

New readings of Spinoza

9.30-10.50: Martin Lenz (University of Groningen, NL): Spinoza and intersubjectivity
Break
11.00-12.20: Keith Green (University of East Tennessee, USA): Spinoza and relational autonomy
Break
Student session (IIIa): Affects and politics
12.30-13.10: Daniel Taylor (University of Roehampton, UK): Is Spinoza a theorist of voluntary
servitude?

Morning
seminars:

13.10-15.00: Lunch (provided)

Student session (IIIb): Affects and politics
15.00-15.40: Hannah Laurens (University of Oxford, UK): Reconsidering Spinozas Rationalism:
Overcoming the Passions through Scientia Intuitiva
15.40-16.20: Christiaan Remmelzwaal (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland): Spinoza on the Relation
between Emotion and Cognition
Break
16.30-17.10: Marrigje Paijmans (University of Amsterdam, NL): The Spinozist Foundation of the New
Netherland

Afternoon:

17.10-17.50: Olcay elik (Boazii University, stanbul, Turkey): Concept of Democracy in Spinoza and
Popular Assemblies of Rojava

Dates
7-10 July, 2015
Deadline for registration: 1 June 2015
Coordinator
Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen, NL)

Level
Master, PhD and Postdoc
Fee (+price housing from 4-11 July 2015)
100 (+ 250 for housing) for MA students
150 (+ 250 for housing) for PhD students

Organization Assistant
Sandra Manzi-Manzi (Universit di Parma, IT)

Other participants*:
Galen Barry (University of Virginia, USA),
Corin Bruce (University of Sheffield, UK),
Le Dong (Peking University, China),
Jacob Graham (Bridgewater College, USA),
Hen-Jan Hendrik Hoekjen (University of Utrecht, NL),
Tomoko Higuchi (Osaka University, Japan),
Julia Klintsevich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel),
Carlos Martinez (San Diego State University, USA),
Davide Monaco (University of Aberdeen, UK),
Massimo Ricchiari (Universit Federico II, Napoli, IT),
Assaf Rotbard (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel),
Eliza Starbuck Little (University of Chicago, USA),
Christopher Thomas (University of Aberdeen, UK),
Stefan Ferdinand van Weers (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL),

*Please note that this list will be updated until June 1 (which is the final deadline for registration).

Contacts
Andrea Sangiacomo and Sandra Manzi-Manzi
(summerschoolphilosophy@rug.nl)

Faculty involved
Faculty of Philosophy

Partners
Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte (OZSW)
Spinoza-Gesellschaft (Germany)

Sponsors
Vereniging Het Spinozahuis (Spinozahouse
Society)

Info
http://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/summer-schools-2015/collegium-spinozanum/course-information