Aspectus and Affectus: , 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 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 translation of the voluminous Founding of Purity book series, which is published by Figures and Commentators in Arabic Oxford University Press in association with the Mathematics (London: Routledge, 2011), which IIS, and consists of Arabic critical editions and consists of primary source texts with annotated English translations with commentaries by Roshdi Rashed. commentaries of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'. He is also the Co-Manager of a joint institutional He is also the Editor of the ‘Islam Division’ of project between the IIS and L’Institut Français the Encyclopaedia of Sciences and d’Etudes Arabes in Damascus (Institut Français Religions (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013). du Proche Orient), and acts as the Coordinator of Moreover, Professor El-Bizri published widely the IIS Texts and Translations Series, which is in peer-refereed academic journals, edited published by I. B. Tauris in association with the volumes, and encyclopaedias. He has also IIS, and is also a member of its Editorial Board. presented numerous peer-reviewed papers and Moreover, he is a member of the board of keynote talks at various international academic Consulting Editors of the Encyclopaedia conferences and has been a contributor to the Islamica, which is published by E. J. Brill in association with the IIS.

Timothy Farrant Funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Oxford under the joint supervision of Prof. Carol Clarendon Fund, Timothy Farrant is completing Harrison (Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity a DPhil in Theology at Pembroke College, at Christ Church, Oxford) and Dr. Giles Gasper (Reader in High Medieval History at the collaborates with Joshua Harvey on the University of Durham). His research focuses on Medieval Science project at Pembroke College, the reception of Augustine in the twelfth Oxford. He is also a contributing member of the century, and the way this informed intellectual Ordered Universe Project based at the approaches to the natural world in England and University of Durham. Northern France. As part of his research, he

Luke Fidler Luke Fidler is a PhD student in the Department His recent scholarship has examined high- of Art History at the University of Chicago. He medieval cupboards, Anglo-Saxon sculpture, studies the history of early- and high-medieval and the reception of Robert Grosseteste among art. He also regularly contributes criticism on avant-garde filmmakers. contemporary art to a variety of publications.

Giles Gasper Giles Gasper is Reader in High Medieval featured on BBC Radios 4’s In Our Time. History at Durham University. He specializes in Gasper, together with Smithson and McLeish, the intellectual history of the high middle ages was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for (11th-13th centuries), particularly in the Research Engagement at the University of development of theology. He also has interests Oxford (2016). A second strand of research in Patristic and early medieval thought, and in focuses on notions of ‘economy’ and order in the history of science. He is principal the High Middle Ages. This has focal points on investigator on the inter-disciplinary Ordered medieval monastic thought, the theology of Universe project (https://ordered-universe.com/) Creation and hexaemeronic commentary, to edit, translate and contextualise the Salvation theology and medieval food culture. scientific works of Robert Grosseteste (c.1170- Recent work in this area includes a study of 1253), working with an international team of twelfth-century culinary recipes for the English scientists, educationalists and medievalists. The Historical Review co-authored with Faith Wallis Dimensions of Colour: Robert Grosseteste's De (McGill), and forthcoming edited volumes on colore (2013) emerged from the pilot project for Biblical Exegesis in the Middle Ages, and Ordered Universe. Subsequent volumes will be Spiritual and Material Economies in Northern published by Oxford University Press in a seven Europe Gasper was an international partner in a volume series The Scientific Works of Robert major inter-disciplinary research project, funded Grosseteste. The Ordered Universe has active by the Norwegian Research Council, running collaborations with a variety of creative artists, from the Cultural Historical Museum, University namely Cate Watkinson, Colin Rennie and other of Oslo, on 'Economies of Salvation in the glass artists at the UK National Glass Centre, Middle Ages', 2013-2015 working particularly University of Sunderland, Sculptor Alexandra with numismatists, liturgists and archaeologists. Carr, Filmmaker Alan Fentiman and Projection Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, Artists Ross Ashton and Karen Monid. Carr and 1000-1200 (co-ed. with S. Gullbekk, 2015) was Gasper direct a Leverhulme Trust funded Artist produced from this project. Gasper has written in Residence placement Sculpting with Light, extensively on Anselm of Canterbury, including with principal activities in Durham in 2017. St Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy (2012) Gasper is a regular participant in the UK and his earlier Anselm of Canterbury and His National Festival of Humanities, represented the Theological Inheritance (2004) and papers on Arts and Humanities Research Council at the various aspects of Anselm’s thought, career and Cheltenham Science Festival in 2015 (with posthumous reputation Hannah Smithson and Tom McLeish), and

Neil Lewis

the Departments of Engineering Science and Experimental Psychology, as well as TORCH Joshua Harvey (the Oxford Research Centre for the Joshua Harvey is currently reading for a DPhil Humanities). in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, under the joint supervision of Clive Siviour and Hannah Smithson. His first degree was an integrated Masters in Biochemistry at Oxford under the supervision of Louis Mahadevan, with a specialization in intracellular signaling, carrying out research as a visiting student at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Joshua’s current research explores physical and perceptual scientific observation and theory from the medieval period, based at Neil Lewis is Associate Professor of Philosophy he has prepared an edition of Rufus' at Georgetown University. His research focuses commentary on Aristotle's De generatione et on English philosophy in the first half of the corruptione, published by the British Academy, thirteenth century, with a special interest in and an edition of Rufus' shorter Metaphysics Robert Grosseteste. He is a core member of the commentary, the Memoriale in Metaphysicam Ordered Universe Project. He has published Aristotelis, available on the project website numerous papers on Grosseteste, and has a soon (http://rrp.stanford.edu/index.shtml). Together to be in print edition, translation and study with with Cecilia Panti, Pietro Rossi and Greti the British Academy of the two recensions of Dinkova-Bruun he is also currently preparing, Grosseteste's De libero arbitrio. He is also an for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, editor with the Richard Rufus of Cornwall a new edition of Grosseteste's shorter theological Project, led by Professor Rega Wood, which is and philosophical works. editing Rufus' body of works. With Rega Wood

Tom McLeish Tom McLeish is Professor of Physics at Durham His research interests include: (i) molecular University and also chairs the Royal Society’s rheology of polymeric fluids); (ii) education committee. After a first degree in macromolecular biological physics; (iii) issues physics and PhD (1987) in polymer physics at of theology, ethics and history of science. He Cambridge University, a lectureship at Sheffield has published over 180 scientific papers and University, in complex fluid physics, lead to a reviews, and is in addition regularly involved in chair at Leeds University from 1993. science-communication with the public, including lectures and workshops on science and He has since won several awards both in Europe faith. In 2014 OUP published his book Faith (Weissenberg Medal) and the USA (Bingham and Wisdom in Science. He has been a Reader in Medal) for his work on molecular rheology of the Anglican Church since 1993, in the dioceses polymers, and ran a large collaborative and of Ripon and York. multidisciplinary research programme in this field from 1999-2009 co-funded by EPSRC and From 2008-2014 he served as Pro-Vice- industry. Chancellor for Research at Durham University. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2012 he was made Vice-President of Science by the Institute of Physics (IoP).

Cecilia Panti Cecilia Panti is assistant professor of History of mathematics, cosmology and astronomy and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Rome harmonics (mathematics of music). Cecilia Panti Tor Vergata, Italy, in the Department of Studi has written extensively on Robert Grosseteste’s letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte. She natural philosophy including the publication of graduated cum laude in Philosophy at the new critical editions of his early cosmological University of Siena (1988), received her M.A. in works (Florence 2001) and of his influential Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto treatise on light De luce (2011). Her projected (1990) and her PhD in Latin Medieval Philology editions include a new volume of editions of at the University of Florence (1995). She has Grosseteste’s shorter theological and won awards and post graduate fellowships and philosophical works, together with Neil Lewis, research grants from the Universities of Siena Pietro Rossi, and Greti Dinkova-Bruun, for the and Florence and has collaborated on several Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. research projects at the universities of Siena, Rome, Pavia-Cremona, Turin. She is a member Her publications also include a book on of the core team of the international project “The speculative music in the Middle Ages and the Ordered Universe: Interdisciplinary Readings in Renaissance (Rome, 2008) and several articles Medieval Science”, based at the University of related to Robert Grosseteste (ontology, Durham and Oxford for the study, translation cosmology, physics and metaphysics of light), and edition of Robert Grosseteste’s scientific (cosmology and his scientific works, and co-investigator of the project funded method), and the British scientific tradition in by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust thirteenth century, particularly the Franciscan (2016-2018) “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 3rd masters at Oxford. Commentary: An English Translation and Historical/Theoretical Examination” (PI Prof. She has been speaker and invited speaker at Nicholas Temple), based at the University of numerous conferences in academic institutions Huddersfield. in Italy (Rome, Palermo, Florence, Trento, Todi, Spoleto, etc.) and abroad (Toronto, Lincoln, Her interests ranges from medieval natural Koeln, Galway, Lausanne, Freiburg, Moscow, philosophy to the arts of the quadrivium, that is, Paris).

Nicola Polloni https://potestas-essendi.com/

Nicola Polloni received his BA and MA in cosmological treatise) and its Arabic sources philosophy at the University of Siena, where he during his MA. had the good fortune to be introduced by brilliant scholars to some of the never-ending After having defended his MA thesis, he was problems of Medieval philosophy. After a first awarded a PhD position at the University of period of study of Augustine’s doctrine of divine Pavia, in international cotutelle with the grace (BA thesis), he moved on to a more Autonomous University of Barcelona, and under peculiar Medieval figure: Dominicus the supervision of Alexander Fidora and Chiara Gundissalinus, philosopher and translator from Crisciani. During the three years of his PhD, he Arabic into Latin in Toledo during the 12th worked on Gundissalinus’ Arabic and Latin century. He worked on Gundissalinus’ De sources, pointing out the peculiarities of his processione mundi (a metaphysical and reflection and his particular use of Avicenna’s and Ibn Gabirol’s philosophical texts. During the a philosophical introduction to Gundissalinus Spring semester 2015 he was awarded the (Domingo Gundisalvo, Filósofo de frontera, SIEPM fellowship at the University of Notre Fundación Ignacio Larramendi, Madrid 2013), Dame (Indiana), where he studied the theoretical and studies on the textual reception of Avicenna connections between Gundissalinus and Thierry and al-Farabi in the De processione mundi . The of Chartres. In November 2015 he defended his overall results of his PhD will be published next doctoral dissertation in Pavia and, shortly after year (Glimpses of the Invisible: Doctrines and that, was awarded a research grant by the Sources of Dominicus Gundissalinus’ Chimaera foundation in order to carry on his Metaphysics), together with a volume on the work on Gundissalinus, focusing on the Medieval transcultural exchange of knowledge English Wirkungsgeschichte the Toledan texts edited by Alexander Fidora and himself had in the 13th century (January-June 2016). (Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Since July 2016 he has been Junior Research Philosophical and Theological Exchanges Fellow in Medieval Philosophy at Durham Between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin University (UK), where he is working on the Intellectual Traditions). In 2018 another volume reception of Avicenna’s, Ibn Gabirol’s and – of will be published: Solomon Ibn Gabirol: course – Gundissalinus’ metaphysics by Robert Sources, Doctrines, and Influence on Medieval Grosseteste and Roger Bacon. Philosophy edited by Marienza Benedetto, Lucas Oro, and himself. During the past few years he has published various contributions, including Brett Smith Brett Smith is currently writing his doctoral shapes Grosseteste's views on salvation, spiritual dissertation on Robert Grosseteste (c.1168-1253) formation, and epistemology. In addition to at the Catholic University of America. His medieval theology, his principal research area, dissertation investigates Grosseteste's division of he has cross-specialized in medieval philosophy the powers of the soul into aspectus (lit. vision) and paleography, as well as the study of and affectus (lit. affect). It also examines some Augustine. His primary teaching areas are of the principal ways this psychological doctrine theology, spirituality, and church history.

Hannah Smithson Hannah Smithson's first degree was in Natural Stockman on adaptation (Institute of Sciences (University of Cambridge: 1993-1996). Ophthalmology, UCL: 2003-2005). She took her She was introduced to visual science in her final first lectureship at Durham University (Lecturer undergraduate year by John Mollon, under 2005-2009; Senior Lecturer 2009-2011) and whose supervision she subsequently studied for moved from there to the University of Oxford, a doctoral degree on visual masking (University where she is currently a Associate Professor in of Cambridge: 1996-2000). She spent two years Perception and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke. as a post-doc in the USA, with Joel Pokorny in Chicago working on colour adaptation She sits on the joint Editorial Board of (University of Chicago: 2000-2001), and with Perception and i-Perception, and on the Qasim Zaidi in New York City working on Directors’ Board of the International Colour colour constancy (SUNY College of Optometry: Vision Society (2008-2016). In 2011 she was 2001-2002). She returned to the UK as an awarded the Applied Vision Association’s Marr Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge (2002-2003), Medal for ‘extensive work on colour vision - before moving to London to work with Andrew from photoreceptors to colour constancy’.

Sigbjørn Sønnesyn Sigbjørn Sønnesyn is a post-doctoral research June 1213 he held a post-doctoral fellowship at fellow at Durham University, currently working the same University. From January 2011 to on the new critical editions and translations of September 2014 he held a post-doctoral the scientific opuscula of Robert Grosseteste. At fellowship at the Saxo Institute, University of this moment he is part of a group finalising the Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also worked as a editions of Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus school teacher. He has published a monograph and De generatione sonorum. He received a on William of Malmesbury, William of Cand. Philol. degree in history, English, and Malmesbury and the Ethics of History (2012), Latin from the University of Bergen in 2002, and has also published on the moral thought of and a PhD in history from the same University Anselm of Canterbury and John of Salisbury, in 2007. He was lecturer at the department of and the influence of ethics, theology, and liturgy history, University of Bergen, from January to on historical writing in the middle ages. November 2007, and between January 2008 and

The Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University and The Ordered Universe Project at Durham University present a public talk

Modern Science, Medieval Studies and Art in Dialogue: Bishop Robert Grosseteste’s (c.1170 – 1253) Scientific World of Light, Sound and the Big Bang

Neil Lewis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

Tom McLeish, Professor of Physics, Durham University

Giles Gasper, Reader in High Medieval History, Durham University

Ross Ashton, Projection Artist

March 31, 2017 4:30 PM McShain Lounge, McCarthy Hall Georgetown University Reception to follow For more information please contact: [email protected]

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