LSNA Conference 2023

Julia Jorati

17th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America

Harvard University

Barker Center, Thompson Room (110), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138

September 29–October 1, 2023

Organizers: Jeffrey K. McDonough (jkmcdon@fas.harvard.edu)
and Julia Jorati (jjorati@umass.edu)

 

Conference Schedule

All times are US Eastern Standard Time

Friday, September 29

12:00–1:15pm

Optional visit to Harvard Art Museums

1:30–1:45pm

Coffee and Welcome

1:45–3:15pm

Tzuchien Tho (University of Bristol), “Living Force and Stationary Action: Leibniz at the Limits of Analytic Mechanics”

Comments: Marius Stan (Boston College)

3:15–3:30pm

Coffee break

3:30–5:00pm

Keynote Address by Donald Rutherford (UCSD, Emeritus), “Leibniz’s General Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom”

5:00–5:30pm

Toast and Celebration of Donald Rutherford on the Occasion of his Retirement from Teaching

5:30–6:30pm

EC Business meeting

7:00pm

Dinner at Nirvana Restaurant (participants only)

Saturday, September 30

9:00–9:30am

Continental Breakfast

9:30–11:00am

Katherine Dunlop (UT Austin), “Leibniz and Du Châtelet on the Ideality and Epistemology of Space and Time”

Comments: Michael Futch (University of Tulsa)

11:00–11:15am

Coffee Break

11:15am–12:45pm

Andrew Burnside (Vanderbilt), “PSR Problems: Spinoza, Leibniz, Du Châtelet”

Comments: Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)

12:45–2:00pm

Catered lunch in Robins Library

2:00–2:15pm

Coffee break

2:15–3:45pm  

Osvaldo Ottaviani (Technion), “Leibniz on Substance, Subject, and the Absolute”

Comments: Brandon Look (University of Kentucky)

3:45–4:00pm

Coffee break

4:00–5:45pm

Henry Straughan (Yale), “Personal Identity and Punishment in Leibniz and Locke”

Comments: Kristen Irwin (Loyola Chicago)

5:45–6:30pm

Business Meeting of the LSNA (open to all LSNA members)

7:00pm

Dinner at Collett Restaurant (participants only)

Sunday, October 1

9:00–9:30am

Continental Breakfast

9:30–11:00am

Miriam Aiello (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), “Remembering ‘without Mark’: the Cognitive and Moral Significance of Reminiscence in Leibniz’s New Essays“

Comments: Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge)

11:00–11:15am

Coffee break

11:15am–12:45pm

Keynote address by Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) “Leibniz and Cudworth”

12:45–2:00pm

Catered lunch in Robins Library

2:15–3:15pm

Optional visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History