Anita Traninger, Institut für Romanische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Wednesday, 3 April
15:30–16:00
Anita Traninger, Martin Urmann (Freie Universität Berlin, CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion”)
Welcome and Introduction
16:00–17:00
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum (Freie Universität Berlin, CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion”)
The Question: The Emergence of an Epistemic Practice in Ancient Mesopotamia
17:00–17:15 Coffee break
17:15–18:15
Irene van Renswoude (University of Amsterdam)
Yes and No, What was the Question? Pedagogy, Dialectic and Disputation before the Rise of the Universities (800–1200)
18:15–19:15
Rudolf Schüßler (Universität Bayreuth)
Questions of Morality in the Early Modern Period
Thursday, 4 April
10:00–11:00
Arjan van Dixhoorn (University College Roosevelt, Middelburg)
“To the Question”: Intellectual Exercises in Early Modern Flemish-Dutch Rhetorician Culture
11:00–12:00
Déborah Blocker (University of California, Berkeley)
“Questionare, Velare e Burlare”: Uses (and Misuses) of the Quaestio Among the Alterati of Florence (1569–1630)
12:00–12:15 Coffee break
12:15–13:15
Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford)
Questions and the Emergence of the English Essay
13:15–14:45 Lunch Break
14:45–15:45
Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford/University of Utrecht)
Disputations, Questions, and Free Speech in the Confessional University: A Remarkable New Discovery
15:45–16:45
Flynn Allott (University of Oxford)
On Questionnaires as Textual Ghosts and Social Forms: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Antiquarian “Quare Sheets”
16:45–17:00 Coffee Break
17:00–18:00
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin, CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion”)
Astonishing Answers: Paradox and the Affective Corollaries of Questioning the Status Quo
18:00–19:00
Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
“Theoremata, Problemata, Paradoxa”: How to Frame Open Questions in Early Modern Epistemic Cultures
Friday, 5 April
09:00–10:00
Nicolas Schapira (Université Paris Nanterre)
The Question as a Political Tool in Absolutist France
10:00–11:00
Jan Lazardzig (Freie Universität Berlin)
Lost and Found. The Labyrinth as Epistemic Trope in the Seventeenth Century (Andreae, Comenius, Bacon)
11:00–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:15
Martin Urmann (Freie Universität Berlin, CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion”)
The Question at Stake. The Content of the Form in the Prize Contests of the French Academies
12:15–13:15 Lunch Break
13:15–14:15
Gideon Stiening (Universität Münster)
“What Can I Know? What Should I Do? What Can I Hope For?” Kant’s Questions
14:15–15:15
Daniel Stader (Freie Universität Berlin)
What is Enlightenment? On the Greatest Prize Question Never Posed
15:15–15:30
Concluding Remarks