Date:
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