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CPHS- Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary
Join us Friday and Saturday November 18th - 19th, 2016 for a free staged reading and colloquium on Emilie Du Chatelet. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard U. History of Philosophy Workshop, co-organized with the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program.
Friday 4:00pm. BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave.
Free Staged Reading of Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson* Directed by Judy Braha (CFA School of Theater), with a Panel Discussion and Talk Back to follow.
Saturday 10:00am-1pm The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
"The Evolution of Emilie Du Chatelet's Ways of Thinking: From the "Metaphysique d'Amour" to a "Metaphysique du Tout," Judith Zinsser, History, Miami University, Ohio
"How Much Did She See? Du Chatelet's Commentary on Newton's Principia," George Smith, Philosophy, Tufts University
"Du Chatelet and the Fight Over Metaphysics," Ruth Hagengruber, Philosophy, Paderborn University, Germany
Saturday 2:30-5:30pm
"Substance and Body in Du Chatelet's Institutions de Physique," Marius Stan, Philosophy, Boston College "Emilie Du Chatelet & the Scope of Physics in the Early Eighteenth Century," Andrew Janiak, Philosophy, Duke University
"Beyond the Newtonians: Du Chatelet's Quest in her Institutions de Physique," Katherine Brading, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
* Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
When | 4:00 pm on 11/18/2016 to 5:00 pm on 11/19/2016 |
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Location | CFA Theatrelab@855, 855 Commonwealth Ave; George Sherman Union, Terrace Lounge, 775 Commonwealth Ave. |