Friday / Freitag, 17.06.2016
09:30–11:00
Opening Session (Chairman: Dr. Thomas HORST)
Prof. Dr. Henrique LEITÃO (CIUHCT, Lisbon): Short Welcome Speech
Dr. Thomas HORST (CIUHCT, Lisbon): Introduction: The cosmographical network of Nicolaus Cusanus and German-Portuguese relations in the Humanism
Prof. Dr. Harald SCHWAETZER (Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte and Cusanus-Hochschule, Bernkastel-Kues/Germany): Cosmography as Christological Phenomenology
Dr. Matthias VOLLET (Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Bernkastel-Kues/Germany): Das Universum als metaphysische Größe bei Nicolaus Cusanus
11:00–11:30
Break
11:30–13:00
Panel I: “Universum Infinitum” – Cosmology and Cosmography in the 15th Century (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Harald SCHWAETZER)
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie NICOLLE (Rouen/France): En quel sens l’univers est-il infini?
Prof. Dr. Gregor NICKEL (Universität Siegen/Germany): Nec finitum – nec infinitum. Erwägungen zur Kosmologie des Nikolaus Cusanus
Dr. Johanna HUECK (Cusanus-Hochschule, Bernkastel-Kues/Germany): Nicholas of Cusa as Cosmographer
13:00–14:30
Lunch break
14:30–16:30
Panel II: Ocean World in European Exploration: Reflection of Iberian Discoveries on texts and maps (Chairman: Dr. SAMUEL GESSNER)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen POHLE (CHAM, Lisbon): Die deutsche Beteiligung an den überseeischen Expeditionen Portugals im 15. Jahrhundert: von Oswald von Wolkenstein bis Martin Behaim
Harald GROPP (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Writing meridians of water into the maps – from Tordesillas till Zaragoza
Robert KING (National Library of Australia): Magnus Sinus, Java and Locach from Martellus to Mercator, 1489–1569
Prof. Dr. Karl GALLE (Linda Hall Library, Egypt/USA): Spicing Up Natural Philosophy: Global Trade Footprints in Early Recipes and their Implications for the Exchange of Manuscripts and Ideas
20:00
Conference Diner
Sabado / Samstag, 18.06.2016
9:30–11:00
Panel III: Constructing a new world (Chairman: Dr. Matthias VOLLET)
Prof. Dr. José MARTÍNEZ GÁZQUEZ (Barcelona): Nuevas glosas de Nicolás de Cusa al Alchoranus Latinus en el ms Vat. Lat. 4071 de la BAV
Dr. Davide SCOTTO (Tübingen University/Germany): Shifting the Humanist Understanding of Islam. Peter Martyr d’Anghiera’s Worldview from the Mediterranean to the New World
Dr. Cristóvão S. MARINHEIRO (National Library of Luxembourg): Mapping a new World with ancient authors. The reception of antique authors in the De coelo by the Conimbricenses and their role in the constructing a new imago mundi
11:00–11:15
Break
11:15–12:45
Panel IV: Intellectual practice in astronomy and astrology of the 15th Century: Cusanus and his influence on the History of Science (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Henrique LEITÃO)
Dr. Thomas HORST (CIUHCT, University of Lisbon): „The Cosmographer Nicolaus Cusanus (1401–1464) and his Philosophical Game with the Globe: The Dialogus de ludo globi“
Dr. Samuel GESSNER (CIUHCT, University of Lisbon): „Astronomical Instruments in the fifteenth century: the astrolabe in the Cusanusstift of Bernkastel-Kues revisited“
Prof. Dr. Darin HAYTON (USA): Astrology as Science and Politics in Maximilian’s Vienna
12:45–13:00
Discussion and formal end of the workshop
Lunch (with the possibility to informal discussions)
17:30–19:30
Tour through Lisbon with old maps with Prof. Dr. João Carlos Garcia (only for registered participants)
Sunday / Sonntag, 19.06.2016
Day Tour to Sintra, Mafra and Ericeira (together with Prof. Dr. João Carlos Garcia, only for registered participants)