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Aspectus and Affectus Aspectus and Affectus: Robert Grosseteste, Understanding and Feeling Conference March 31- April 1, 2017 Georgetown University Speakers Ross Ashton, Projection Artist, UK Katherine Bader, Director at Huron Higher Education Consulting and PhD Candidate in History at Durham University Nader El-Bizri, Professor and Director of the Civilization Studies Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB); Director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at AUB; Coordinator of the MA in Islamic Studies at the AUB Centre for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies Timothy Farrant, DPhil Theology Candidate, University of Oxford Luke Fidler, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago Giles Gasper, Reader in High Medieval History, Durham University Joshua Harvey, DPhil Candidate, Engineering Science, University of Oxford Neil Lewis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University Tom McLeish, Professor of Physics, Durham University and Fellow of the Royal Society Nicola Polloni, Junior Research Fellow in Medieval Philosophy, Durham University Brett Smith, PhD candidate in theology, The Catholic University of America Hannah Smithson, Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University Sigbjørn Sønnesyn, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (High Medieval History) in the Department of History, Durham University We are also very pleased to have attending as pre-publication workshop chair, Prof. Cecilia Panti of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, who is a noted expert on Grosseteste's scientific writings. Conference Schedule Friday, March 31st Open to public, visitors welcome. Location: Georgetown University, McShain Lounge 9:30-10:10 Brett Smith: 'A Theme Song of His Life': Aspectus and Affectus in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste 10:10-10:50 Giles Gasper: The Background to Grosseteste’s Aspectus-Affectus Distinction: Anselm, Astronomy and the De spiritu et anima 10:50-11:00 Break 11:00-11:40 Sigbjørn Sønnesyn: 'Beati mundo corde quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt': Affectus of the Soul and the Sight of the Mind in Isaac of Stella 11:40-12:20 Nicola Poloni: Effectus, affectus, and defectus: Causality and Causation of the Substrate 12:20-1:20 Lunch in conference room for official participants 1:20-2:00 Neil Lewis: The Structure of the Soul: Aspectus and Affectus in Richard Fishacre and Richard Rufus of Cornwall 2:00-2:40 Timothy Farrant: Celestial Illusion, Perception, and Moralised Zoology in Alexander Neckam's De naturis rerum. 2:40-2:50 Break 2:50-3:30 Kathy Bader: Arabic Astronomical Texts in the 12th-Century Severn Valley 3:30-4:30 Free time 4:30-6:30 Public talk followed by reception: Modern Science, Medieval Studies and Art in Dialog: Bishop Robert Grosseteste’s (c.1170 – 1253) Scientific World of Light, Sound and the Big Bang Speakers: Neil Lewis, "Introduction"; Tom McLeish, "When a Modern Physicist meets a Medieval Scientist "; Giles Gasper, "Robert Grosseteste and the Ordered Universe"; Tom McLeish, "Sound and Space"; Giles Gasper, "Creative Collaborations"; Ross Ashton, "Projecting the Cosmos: Projection Art and the Ordered Universe’ (includes a montage of three sound and light shows: The World Machine, Spiritus, and Spiritus: Light and Dark, from Light Festivals at Durham (2015), Berlin (2016) and Cambridge (2017)) Location: McShain Lounge, Georgetown University. 7:00 Conference Dinner at 1789 restaurant (very short walk from campus) Saturday, April 1st Location: Georgetown University, Philosophy Department conference room, 204 New North. 9:30-10:10 Nader El-Bizri: Alhazen's Theory of Visual Perception and its Physiological, Cognitive and Experiential Bearings’ 10:10-10:50 Tom McLeish: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity through the Mirror of Aspectus and Affectus 10:50-11:00 Break 11:00-11:40 Hannah Smithson: The Embodiment of Human Perception: Exchanges between Robert Grosseteste and Modern Perceptual Science 11:40-12:20 Joshua Harvey: On the generation, transmission, and perception of sound 12:20-1:40 Lunch in Library 1:40-2:20 Luke Fidler: Aspectus and the Apperception of Sculpture 2:20-2:30 Break Pre-publication workshop Closed to public 2:30-6:30 7:30 Dinner in conference room Aspectus and Affectus: Robert Grosseteste, Understanding and Feeling Conference March 31- April 1, 2017 Georgetown University About our participants Ross Ashton http://www.rossashton.com/index.html Ross Ashton was born in Sheffield in 1961. His specially commissioned ‘son et lumière’ Having trained in photography and theatre he have received world-wide attention. moved to London and began to work in video and slide projection. After spending four years His reputation for large scale spectacular pieces in Paris working with a variety of visual media, means that he has created projections as he began specialising in High Power Projection commemorations for governments around the in 1992. world. He has also collaborated with other artists and lighting designers in the production of His years of experience have produced an shows from Rock & Roll to classical concerts instinctive understanding of the relationship and theatre. His expertise has also been called on between artwork and structure, light and surface, for numerous film and television productions. object and subject. The size and scale of his work has led to his being commissioned for both His work has been seen by millions throughout stand-alone works and broader based large his career and never fails to be thought shows designed and created for national and provoking, moving and exhilarating. international audiences. Katherine Bader Katharine Bader is currently Director at Huron University. Her area of interest is the reception Higher Education Consulting and a PhD of Arabic Science into England in the 12th Candidate in History at Durham University. She Century. was formerly Assistant Vice Provost at Duke Nader El-Bizri Professor Nader El-Bizri is the Director of the programme in Architectural Theory and Design. Civilization Studies Program at the American Previously he has also taught at Harvard University of Beirut (AUB), and he is also the University and The American University of Director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Beirut, and since September 1999 he has been Literature at AUB, and the Coordinator of the lecturing on classical Arabic sciences at the MA in Islamic Studies at the AUB Centre for Department of History and Philosophy of Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to that, Science at The University of Cambridge as an he was a Principal Lecturer (Readership scale) at Affiliated Lecturer and Research Scholar. In The University of Lincoln Faculty of addition, he is a Chercheur Associé at the Centre Architecture, Art and Design, and he was a National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris Research Associate in Philosophy at the IIS (CNRS, UMR 7219), and he was a Visiting from 2002 till 2010. Formerly he held a Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Lectureship at The Institute of Architecture at Architecture at The University of Lincoln from The University of Nottingham (2000-2002) 2007 till 2010. where he taught philosophy and architectural theory, and acted as the coordinator of the MA Professor El-Bizri received his PhD in classical and cultural supplements of the Arabic philosophy from the Graduate Faculty of The international newspaper Al-Hayat, and has been New School for Social Research in New York, after reading philosophy at Harvard University. interviewed for Radio programmes and TV Earlier, he had earned a Masters degree in documentaries. In addition, he is a member of architecture from The Harvard Graduate School several learned societies, including The of Design. Beside his academic undertakings, he American Philosophical Association (APA), The has twelve years of professional consulting British Society for Phenomenology, The experience in architecture offices and Architectural Humanities Research Association institutions in Geneva, New York, London, (Consortium of British Universities), and The Cambridge and Beirut. International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society. Professor El-Bizri is also an Professor El-Bizri's academic research interests elected member of the Executive Council of the are mainly in the areas of Greco-Arabic classical Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences et traditions in science and philosophy, in des Philosophies Arabes et Islamiques. phenomenology, and in architectural humanities. Moreover, he acts as the Co-Editor of a He is the author of The Phenomenological Quest phenomenology book series, published by Between Avicenna and Heidegger (New York: Kluwer Academic publishers (Dordrecht), and Binghamton SUNY, 2000), and Epistles of the serves on the Editorial Boards of Arabic Brethren of Purity: On Arithmetic and Sciences and Philosophy (Cambridge University Geometry. An Arabic Critical Edition and Press journal), the Fundamentals of Scientific English Translation of EPISTLES 1 & Knowledge series (Arab Organization for 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in Translation, Beirut) and the Toposophia series association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, on philosophy and architecture published by 2012). He is also the editor of Epistles of the Lexington books (Maryland, USA). Brethren of Purity. Ikhwan al-Safa’ and their Rasa’il: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford His long-term research at the IIS consists of University Press, in association with The acting as the General Editor (Managing Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2008), and he edited Editor ex officio) of the Epistles of the Brethren the
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