Boston University: Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary
Talk | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Boston University (The Robert S. Cohen Forum):
Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary
Co-sponsored by the Harvard U. History of Philosophy Workshop, co-organized with the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program
Friday and Saturday November 18th – 19th, 2016
Program:
Friday 4:00pm
BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave
Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson*
Directed by Judy Braha, College of Fine Arts, Boston University
Panel Discussion and Talk Back
Saturday 10:00am – 1:00pm
The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
The Evolution of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Ways of Thinking: From the Métaphysique d’Amour to a Métaphysique du Tout
Judith Zinsser, History, Miami University, Ohio
How Much Did She See? Du Châtelet’s Commentary on Newton’s Principia
George Smith, Philosophy, Tufts University
Du Châtelet and the Fight Over Metaphysics
Ruth Hagengruber, Philosophy, Paderborn University, Germany
Saturday 2:30-5:30pm
The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Substance and Body in Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique
Marius Stan, Philosophy, Boston College
Émilie Du Châtelet & the Scope of Physics in the Early Eighteenth Century
Andrew Janiak, Philosophy, Duke University
Beyond the Newtonians: Du Châtelet’s Quest in her Institutions de Physique
Katherine Brading, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
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