Journée d’étude – Aesthetics and imagination, 16th-19th centuries

Monday 9 May, Maison Française d’Oxford

10.00am-10.15am: Welcome and Tea/Coffee

MORNING SESSION:

10:15am-12.45pm

Chair: Nathalie Ferrand (CNRS-MFO)

Koen Vermeir (CNRS-SPHERE, Paris) : Introduction: aesthetics and the force of imagination

Agnès Guiderdoni (FNRS, UCL) : De l’imagination comme être réel. Pouvoirs de l’image chez Otto Van Veen

Elizabeth Claire (EHESS, Paris) : Inventing l’Art de la danse in 18th-Century France. Imagination and Enthusiasm in Cahusac, Diderot & Noverre

AFTERNOON SESSION:

2.00pm-5.30pm

Chair: Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)

Wes Williams (St Edmund Hall, Oxford) : “…des miracles et des difficultez estrangeres…”. Imagination’s empire (Montaigne, medecine, and Malebranche)

Ann Jefferson (New College, Oxford): Imagination in the clinic. The medical view of genius in the nineteenth century

Chair: Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO)

Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) Inventer Watteau

Convenors: Martine PÉCHARMAN (CNRS-MFO) and Koen VERMEIR (SPHERE-CNRS)