[Educasup] L'encyclopédisme après l'Enyclopédie

[Sophie Audidiere]

Chères et chers collègues,

j’ai le plaisir de vous informer d’une journée d’études consacrée à « 
L’encyclopédisme après l’Encyclopédie : réflexions interdisciplinaires », mardi 
31 mai, à l’Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon), organisée par la MSHE 
Ledoux.
Soyez les bienvenu.e.s,

Vincent Bourdeau
Sophie Audidière



L’encyclopédisme après L’Encyclopédie : 
réflexions  interdisciplinaires croisées


Journée d’études organisée le 31 mai 2022
 18 rue Chifflet – Grand Salon – Besançon – UFR SLHS – Université de 
Franche-Comté


Mardi 31 mai 2022 : présentations et discussions

9h00 : Accueil des participants

9h15-9h45 : Introduction par Sophie Audidière (Logiques de l’Agir, uB) : 
Remarques sur l’Encyclopédisme

9h45-10h30 : Julien Vincent (Histoire, IHMC, Université Paris I) : 
« Questions et perspectives historiques sur l’encyclopédisme du XIXe siècle »

10h30 -10h50 : Pause-Café

10h50-11h35 : Léo Becka (Histoire, IHMC, Université Paris I) : 
 « Encyclopédisme et voyages savants dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle : 
l’exemple des expéditions de La Recherche vers le Grand Nord (1835-1840) »


11h35-12h35 : Table Ronde – Encyclopédismes, 1 : 
XVIIIe-XIXe s. (animation : Aurélien Aramini, Logiques de l’Agir, UFC)

12h35-14h : Repas

14h00-14h45 : Fabien Ferri (Philosophie, Logiques de l’Agir, UFC) : 
« Otto Neurath et l’encyclopédisme visuel : un projet scientifique et social au 
sein du Cercle de Vienne »

14h45-15h30 : Flavien Le Bouter (Philosophie, Logiques de l’Agir, UFC) : 
« Encyclopédisme et sémantiquehistorique : Niklas Luhmann et la 
Begriffsgeschichte »

15h30-15h45 : Pause-café

15h45-16h45 : Table ronde – Encyclopédismes, 2 : 
XVIIIe-XXe s. (animation : Vincent Bourdeau, Logiques de l’Agir, UFC)






Journée organisée dans le cadre de l’action « Encyclopédisme » – Pôle 3 – 
MSHE Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (UAR 3124)
Journée trans-axes : Laboratoire Logiques de l’Agir (UR 2274)


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[Educasup] Lecture by Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins) | 23 May 2022 | Styles and Method in the Early-Modern and the Modern Period Seminar

[Matteo Vagelli]

All are invited to join the upcoming meeting of the *Styles and Method in
the Early-Modern and the Modern Period Seminar*

*Gianna Pomata *(Johns Hopkins)
*'The unbearable lightness of thinking: theory as "capriccio" in
17th-century medicine'*

Date: *Monday 23 May 2022*
Time: *17.30-19.30 (CEST/Rome Time)*
Place: *Online* (Zoom)

*No registration needed. Please click *here
* to attend the meeting*

*Abstract*
My contribution will focus on a surprising and hitherto unnoticed aspect of
early modern epistemology: the fact that the term “capriccio” was used in
17th-century natural philosophy and medicine to indicate conjecture,
hypothesis, or theory - in other words, as an antonym for observation. The
term conveyed, in this context, a negative view of theory as mere opinion
or “fancy”. Indeed, it carried some of the flavor of arbitrariness and
unruliness that the word “caprice” was acquiring, in the same years, in the
language of political theorists, particularly with the critics of the
absolutist state. Right at the same time, in striking contrast, “capriccio”
was acquiring a strongly positive currency in the arts. Starting with music
in the 16th century, the term “capriccio” was extended to the visual arts
and then to literature, to indicate a fashionable multimedia genre
associated with liberty of form - “a genre that combined order and chaos”.
It appears then that a “capricious” style became fashionable in the arts
right when it was being frowned upon in the sciences. What was the meaning
of these parallel and contrasting trends? I will argue that the negative
meaning of “capriccio” in the sciences indicated:

1) the changing relationship of theory and observation in the 17th century,
which strongly privileged observation over theory;
2) the beginning of a divergence between acceptable styles of thinking in
scientific and artistic cultures, which would more fully develop in later
periods.

*Speaker*
Gianna Pomata
 is
Professor Emerita at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns
Hopkins University. Her research interests include early modern European
social and cultural history, with a main focus on the history of medicine.
She is also interested in medical casuistry from the viewpoint of a
comparative history of medical genres. A cross-cultural approach to the
history of medical genres and epistemologies is a central feature of her
present  research work. She is currently completing a book titled *The Case
Narrative in Pre-modern Medicine: A History Across Cultures*. Among her
publications: *Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe *(MIT
Press, 2005) and "The Medical Case Narrative: Distant Reading of an
Epistemic Genre" *Literature and Medicine* 32, 1 (2014)

*More information*
This seminar is organized by Matteo Vagelli and is part of the activities
of EPISTYLE . This project
has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement
number 101030646. Visit the website of the project
 for more information and the
complete program. Please note that the meeting will be recorded. By
participating, you give your consent.

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