Friday, 22. November 2019
9:00
Bettina Hollstein (Erfurt) and Knud Haakonssen (Erfurt/St Andrews): Welcome address and Introduction
Introduction.
SECTION 1: RUSSIA
9:30
Tatiana Artemyeva (St. Petersburg): Natural law in the system of noble education in Russia.
10:30
- Coffee break -
10:45
Ivo Cerman (České Budějovice): The passionate natural law in Russia: Frédéric-Henri Strube de Piermont.
SECTION 2: POLAND-LITHUANIA
11:45
Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (Warsaw): Why was the political discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility so weakly influenced by natural law?
12:45
- Lunch break -
13:30
Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen): »The wish to legislate on religion is not Polish« (Grotius). The influence of natural law on the discourse of toleration in 17th-century Poland-Lithuania.
14:30
Steffen Huber (Krakow): Natural law in Aaron Alexander Olizarowski's De politica hominum societate (1651) and selected courses taught at the University of Vilnius.
15:30
- Coffee break -
16:00
Gábor Gángó (Erfurt/Budapest): Pufendorf's reception in the academic gymnasia of Toruń and Elbląg under Ernest König's directorship.
17:00
Mikkel Munthe Jensen (Erfurt/Gotha): Launch of the Natural Law Database.
17:30 – 18:30
Open planning meeting of the Natural Law Network
19:00
- Dinner -
Saturday, 23. November 2019
SECTION 3: AUSTRIAN EMPIRE
9:00
Martin Schennach (Innsbruck): Natural law in Austrian and Hungarian science of public law in the second half of the 18th century. A comparison.
10:00
Ivo Cerman (České Budějovice): The chairs of natural law in Vienna and Prague 1753–1790.
11:00
- Coffee break -
11:15
Haruyama Yuki (Tokyo): Natural law as moral motivation for poor relief in sermons of Christian priests in Prague in the second half of the 18th century.
12:15
- Lunch break -
SECTION 4: HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA
13:00
Borbála Lovas (Budapest): The dream of freedom, peace and order. Natural law in the works of a Unitarian bishop from the late-16th-century Transylvania.
14:00
Péter Balázs (Szeged): Natural law writers in Unitarian schooling in Transylvania.
15:00
- Coffee break -
15:15
József Simon (Szeged): Political psychology and natural law in the Preface of Miklós Bethlen's Autobiography (1708).
16:15
Gábor Gángó (Erfurt/Budapest) and Béla Mester (Budapest):
Grotius in the disputations of Gisbert Voetius’s Hungarian disciples in Utrecht and their reception in Johann Christian von Boineburg’s intellectual circle.
17:15 – 18:00
Simone Zurbuchen (Lausanne) moderator:
General discussion, end of the conference.
Venue: The Max Weber Centre, Steinplatz 2, Erfurt.
Organisers: Professor Gábor Gángó (Erfurt/Budapest) and Professor Knud Haakonssen (Erfurt/St. Andrews)
Contact: Dr. Mikkel Munthe Jensen: mikkel.jensen@uni-erfurt.de
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Universität Erfurt
Registration: Please register no later than 7 November 2019 by e-mail to Dr. Mikkel Munthe Jensen: mikkel.jensen@uni-erfurt.de