Leibniz Society of North America Annual Conference
Date and Time
Location
The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
Barker Center
Thompson Room (110)
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Friday, September 29
12:00 – 1:15: Optional visit to Harvard Art Museums
1:30 – 1:45 Coffee and Welcome
1:45 – 3:15: Tzuchien Tho (University of Bristol), “Living Force and Stationary Action: Leibniz at the Limits of Analytic Mechanics,” comments by Marius Stan (Boston College)
3:15 – 3:30: Coffee break
3:30 – 5:00: Keynote Address by Donald Rutherford (UCSD, Emeritus) “Leibniz’s General Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom”
5:00 – 5:30: Toast and Celebration of Donald Rutherford on the Occasion of his Retirement from Teaching
5:30 – 6:30: EC Business meeting
7:00 – Dinner at Nirvana Restaurant (participants only)
Saturday, September 30
9:00 – 9:30: Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 11:00: Katherine Dunlop (UT Austin), “Leibniz and Du Châtelet on the Ideality and Epistemology of Space and Time,” with comments by Michael Futch (University of Tulsa)
11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45: Andrew Burnside (Vanderbilt), “PSR Problems: Spinoza, Leibniz, Du Châtelet,” with comments by Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
12:45 – 2:00: Catered lunch in Robins Library
2:00 – 2:15: Coffee break
2:15 – 3:45: Osvaldo Ottaviani (Technion), “Leibniz on Substance, Subject, and the Absolute,” with comments by Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)
3:45 – 4:00: Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:45: Henry Straughan (Yale), “Personal Identity and Punishment in Leibniz and Locke,” with comments by Kristen Irwin (Loyola Chicago)
5:45 – 6:30: Business meeting of the LSNA (open to all LSNA members)
7:00 – Dinner at Colette Restaurant (participants only)
Sunday, October 1
9:00 – 9:30: Continental Breakfast
9:30 – 11:00: Miriam Aiello (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)) “Remembering ‘without Mark’: the Cognitive and Moral Significance of Reminiscence in Leibniz’s New Essays with comments by Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge)
11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45: Keynote address by Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) “Leibniz and Cudworth”
12:45 – 2:00: Catered lunch in the Library
2:15 – 3:15: Optional visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History