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Programme

Day 1 (Monday 11 July):

9:20 – 9:30 Opening (TA and TK)

9:30 – 10:50 The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment (AR)

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 12:30 The Culture of the Mind: Transforming Logic (TA)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13: 30 – 14:50 Hume´s Philosophy in Historical Perspective (TK)

14:50 – 15:10 Coffee break

15:10 – 16:30 Rationality versus horror. The problems of the military enlightenment and military culture on the example of the career of the Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset (1717 - 1791) (PW)

16:30 – 18:30 Prague´s Little Quarter short walk

18:30 – 21:00 Dinner at “Času dost” restaurant

Day 2 (Tuesday 12 July):

9:30 – 10:50 From the Sciences of Being to the Science of Mind: Metaphysics, Physics, and Pneumatics (TA)

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 12:30 Disciplinary specialisation in the early modern Scottish universities (AR)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13: 30 – 14:50 Deafness as Difference. Some positive views of deafness in the 18th-century philosophy (JF)

14:50 – 15:10 Coffee

16:00 – 19:00 Botanical Garden excursion and /or Šutka Swimming Pool

19:30 – 21:00 Dinner at Pilsner Beer Pub “Kobyla”

Day 3 (Wednesday 13 July):

9:30 – 10:50 The Presbyterian Kirk and intellectual change (AR)

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 12:30 Moral Culture: Reason and Sentiment in Ethics (TA)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 16:30 Control the space and its dwellers in an enlightened city. Lecture and guided tour in the footsteps of the police and municipal administration of Prague, 1770-1820 (PH)

Day 4 (Thursday 14 July):

9:30 – 10:50 Enlightenment as the Revolution in Gift Exchange (VČ)

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 12:30 Slavery and Enlightenment (MK)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

15:00 – 16:00 Faces of War: Excursion to Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures (MK)

Day 5 (Friday 15 July):

10:00 – 10:40 Studying History subjects at the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh (TA and AR)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Academic round table

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

Lecturers:

Professor Thomas Ahnert (TA), Doc. Dr. Veronika Čapská (VČ) Doc. Dr. Josef Fulka (JF), Doc. Dr. Pavel Himl (PH), Prof. Dr. Markéta Křížová (MK), Dr. Tomáš Kunca (TK), Dr Alasdair Raffe (AR), Dr. Petr Wohlmuth (PW)

Registration for the event:

Students enrolled for the course are already registered and became members of PSSH MS Teams group. Event is open to participation of academics and students of Charles University and University of Edinburgh, but please register via mail to organiser no later than 30 June. Number of seats for academics and students not enrolled for the course is 40, more may be registered to MS Teams group including access to recordings and other materials. Both dining hall and FHS Café will be operating from 11th to 15th July.

Event organiser and enquiries: Dr. Tomáš Kunca (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities),