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09-12.07.2024. “Cartesian Democritus: the image of Democritus in the works of the first Cartesians.” HOPOS 2024, Vienna.
19.06.2024. “Cercetarea deschisă digitală în științele umaniste (Open Digital Scholarship in the Humanities).” Conference G. Călinescu – 125. Panel “Tratate, enciclopedii și dicționare literare în epoca digitalizării,” Romanian Academy, Bucharest.
13.06.2024. “Cartesian Natural Histories: Antoine Le Grand.” Scientiae 2024, Bruxelles.
16.05.2024. “Digital scholarship in the history of philosophy (and the sciences).” Research seminar Construction(s) of Science(s), ICUB, Bucharest.
17-18.11.2023. “Digital Histories of Philosophy and Science: the Early Modern Period” in the 2nd RADH Conference, Timișoara.
04-06.07.2023. “Constructing a philosophical system: Claude Clerselier’s Recipe for Cartesianism” in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2023, Alba-Iulia.
17-18.01.2023. "The usefulness of historiographical categories: what to do with 'Continental Empiricism'?" in the conference Continental Empiricism in the Early Modern Period. Revising a Historiographical Category (Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles).
18-19.11.2022. "Going Beyond Kuhn: Paradigms, Incommensurability, and Textbooks" in the Kuhn 100 conference (Faculty of Philosophy and ICUB-Humanities, University of Bucharest).
17.10.2022. “Jacques Rohault’s Preface to the Traité de physique and its role in the Scientific Revolution of the early modern period” (with Ovidiu Babeș) in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest).
17.10.2022. “Cosmology and Mosaic Physics. On Géraud de Cordemoy’s Lettre au R.P. Cossart” (with Grigore Vida) in The Making of Modern Science and the Metaphor of the Scientific Revolution Conference (ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest).
27.06.2022. “‘Nonsense’ in the history of philosophy and science: the case of historiographical categories” in the CELFIS Seminar (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest).
13-14.06.2022. “Layers of Knowledge: constructing authority in an early modern textbook on natural philosophy” in the 2nd Venice-Bucharest Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy and Science (Venice).
12.05.2022. “Authorities and Historiographical Categories in Early Modern Texts: Cartesianism” in the workshop Rethinking the Constituents of Early Modern Science; ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest.
08.04.2022. “Digital Humanities and Early Modern Scholarship” in the online conference series History of thought and Digital Scholarship Seminars; HITDIG.
19.11.2021. “Constructing Experiments with Glass Drops in Jacques Rohault’s Natural Philosophy” in the colloquium Recipes Transformed: seventeenth-century perspectives (18, 19, 24.11.2021).
17.11.2021. “Beyond digitalization: challenges for humans and machines” (with Anca Dinu) in the UNeECC and UNICA Joint Webinar: UniverCities and Culture. The record of the event is available here: https://youtu.be/lLqhiOShhP8.
29.10.2021. “Cartesian Visual Cosmology: ways towards a digital platform” (together with Ovidiu Babeș and Ioana Bujor) in the RADH 2021 – Recent Advances in Digital Humanities conference.
17-18.06.2021. Paper on “A Populariser of Cartesian Cosmology? Jacques Rohault” in the Venice-Bucharest Online Workshop in Early Modern Cosmology.
09-12.06.2021. Paper on “Cartesianism at Bay: Rohault as a Defender of Cartesian Cosmology” in the Scientiae 2021 conference, Early Modern Knowledge, 1400-1800.
24.05.2021. Roundtable discussion, The Bucharest-Athens Workshop: Digital approaches in the history of science (together with Ovidiu Babeș, Ioana Bujor, and Grigore Vida).
26.04.2021. Talk on “Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism – historical and historiographical considerations” in the Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
23.03.2021. Paper on “Natural Philosophy and Cartesian cosmology: Rohault and the popularization of Cartesianism” in the Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. A record of the meeting is available here.
15.10.2020. Paper on “Depicting Cartesian Cosmology in the Seventeenth Century” in the conference on Cartesian Images. Picturing Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Age (Louvain; virtual event).
30.09.2020. Roundtable discussion on “Cartesian Approaches to Cosmology in Early Modern Europe” (together with Babeș, Ovidiu, Ioana Bujor, Bogdan Deznan, Grigore Vida) as part of the conference Cartesian Approaches to Cosmology in Early Modern Europe (virtual event, in roundtable format, at the ICUB-Humanities, 20 September 2020, Bucharest).
19.12.2019. Paper on "Cosmological Imagination: Descartes and the early Cartesians" in the workshop on Forms of Cosmological Thinking in the Early Modern Period (ICUB-Humanities, Bucharest).
04-05.11.2019. Paper on "Religion and Philosophy: Cartesian cosmology in the late seventeenth century" in the conference on Eclecticism and Eclectic Philosophy in the 17th and 18th Centuries (ICUB-Humanities and New Europe College, Bucharest).
17.10.2019. Lecture on “Géraud de Cordemoy on the Cartesian Theory of Animal Machines and the Use of Scripture” in the series of Premodern Conversations (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).
01.10.2019. Paper on “Early Modern Textbooks and Digital Tools: exploring the transmission of knowledge” in the seminar Brown Bag Lunch in Digital Humanities (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).
24-28.06.2019. Reading group on “Cartesian Cosmology.” Co-organised with Dan Garber & Scott Mandelbrote in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2019 (Bran).
12-15.06.2019. Paper on Strategies of dissemination for Cartesian cosmology in the early modern Period, in the “Scientiae 2019” conference, Belfast.
16.04.2019. Between Cosmogony and Cosmology: a Cartesian View, in the conference on Laws of nature: the emergence of a new concept in early modern Europe, IRH-ICUB, Bucharest.
06-07.12.2018. Cartesian Cosmology Between ‘Mosaic Physics’ and Mechanical Philosophy, at the Philosophical Cosmology in Early Modern Europe Workshop, IRH-ICUB, Bucharest.
14-17.09.2018. Paper on The role of mathematics in Samuel Clarke’s annotations to Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique. “ESHS 2018,” London.
09-12.07.2018. Paper on Mathematical controversies around Cartesianism: Clerselier, Fermat, Rohault. “HOPOS 2018,” Groningen.
28.06.-04.07.2018. Lecture on Cartesianism and Mathematics. “Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy,” Bran.
17-18.11.2017. Paper on Early Modern Cosmology Between ’Mosaic Physics’ and Mechanical Philosophy. Conference on “Reformation and Modernity,” University of Bucharest.
24-28.10.2017. Reading group on "Galileo, the Theologian" (together with Dan Garber). Masterclass on Galileo’s Methods of Investigation and Discovery, Bucharest, ICUB.
05-06.10.2017. Paper on Rohault’s Cartesianism and his treatises on mechanics: what form of mechanics? Conference on The History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, Bergamo.
30.05.-01.06.2017. Paper on Intermediaries, Merchants, and Polemicists: on the letters exchanged by Descartes, More, Petty, and Hartlib. ISIH, The American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad.
24-26.10.2016. Paper on Ways of connecting Bacon and Descartes: Medicine and Experimentation. Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science, Bucharest.
22-24.09.2016. Paper on The power of historiographic labels and the power of national historiographies of science: the Bacon-Descartes case. 7ESHS conference, Prague.
11-16.07.2016. Co-chairing two round-table discussions on “Trees of Knowledge (I)” (Texts: Proclus, Commentary on Euclid (fragments); John Dee, Mathematical Preface. With Dana Jalobeanu and Ovidiu Babeș) and (2) “Trees of Knowledge (II)” (Texts: Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum; Descartes, “Letter to the reader,” Principia philosophia. With Dana Jalobeanu and Doina-Cristina Rusu), Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Alba-Iulia, Romania.
05-07.07.2016. Paper on Between medicine and natural philosophy: some French Cartesians exploring the path between principles and experimentation, Scientiae 2016, Oxford, UK.
18.04.2016. Round-table discussion on Descartes in the Hartlib Papers. Workshop on Early Modern Intersections: Science, Experiments, Methodologies, Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Romania.
01.04.2016. Paper on Bacon, Descartes, and the ‘new science’. Workshop on Baconian Themes in Natural and Moral Philosophy, IRH-ICUB & CELFIS, University of Bucharest, Romania.
06-10.10.2015. Paper on Baconianism, Cartesianism, and Newtonianism. Jacques Rohault’s Treatise on Physics and Samuel Clarke’s Newtonian annotations. Masterclass on Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Projects, IRH-ICUB, University of Bucharest, Romania.
12-17.07.2015. Reading group Genesis and the new science. The case of Cartesian philosophy(with Daniel Garber). Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania.
20.11.2014. Round-table discussion, Manuscrisul 2001 de la Biblioteca Mazarină. Un exercițiu de istorie intelectuală în jurul scrisorilor lui Descartes despre Euharistie [in Romanian]. Co-organized together with Vlad Alexandrescu and Grigore Vida. ICUB, Bucharest.
08.10.2014. Filosofia experimentala a secolului al XVII-lea si experimentalismul cartezian [in Romanian. The English title, 17th-Century Experimental Philosophy and the Case of Cartesian Experimentalism]. CELFIS Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
08-13.07.2014. Reading group Naturalism: Cardano, Telesio, Bacon. Co-organized together with Daniel Garber și Doina-Cristina Rusu within the „Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy”, Bran, România.
03-06.07.2014. Paper on Experimental Cartesianism and the problem of space. HOPOS 2014, Ghent, Belgia.
23-25.04.2014. Lecture on Experience, experiment and observation in Cartesian natural philosophy: the case of organic processes of the human body. Scientiae 2014, Vienna, Austria.
31.10.-01.11.2013: Paper on Cartesian Experimentalism across the Empiricist-Rationalist Divide. François Bayle and how experience and reason join together in the production of knowledge, presented at the conference “Conflict and Collaboration in Early Modern Europe,” Radboud University Nijmegen.
05-10.07.2013: Reading group “Baconianism and Cartesianism: on experiments” (with Sophie Roux) in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania.
05-10.07.2013: Reading group “Baconianism and Cartesianism: on method” (with Igor Agostini) in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania.
17-21.04.2013: Paper on From Bacon to Baconianism: some thoughts on seventeenth-century “Baconianism” and other categories in the early modern period, presented within the Scientiae 2013 conference, University of Warwick, UK.
16.01.2013: Lecture in the Department Seminar of Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest: On Cartesian Empiricisms: historical and philosophical challenges.
01-03.11.2012: Prezentation of a paer on Mixing Cartesianism and Newtonianism: the reception of Cartesian physics in England in the 5ESHS (European Society for the History of Science) conference, “Scientific cosmopolitanism and local cultures: religions, ideologies, societies” (Athens). Co-organizer, together with Delphine Bellis (Ghent University) of the symposium “Cartesian Physics and its reception: between local and universal.”
09.05.2012: Lecture on Cunoastere si certitudine in filosofia naturala carteziana (Knowledge and Certainty in Cartesian Natural Philosophy) within the Department Seminar of Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest.
24-25.03.2012: Presentation of a paper on Experimental physics in Cartesian natural philosophy in the 3rd Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science (Bucharest, Romania), “Creative Experiments: Heuristic & Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science).
22-23.03.2012: Invited keynote-speaker in the 3rd edition of Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy (Bucharest, Romania). Presentation of a lecture on Cartesian Empiricisms: an introduction.
15-18.03.2012: Presentation of a paper on Vacuum Experiments in Cartesian Context in the &HPS4 conference (Athens, Greece).
01-29.02.2012: Research at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) as part of the postdoctoral grant POSDRU/89/1.5/S/62259. On 28.02.2012, I have lectured on the Theory and Experimentation in Jacques Rohault.
02-08.07.2011: Presentation of a paper on Jacques Rohault and Samuel Clarke in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Thought, “Collaborative aspects of Early Modern Thought: Philosophical Correspondence and the Republic of Letters” (Bran, Romania).
06.06.2011: Paper on Cartesianism and Chymistry: mechanism and the rejection of chemistry as a science in the post-doctoral workshop “Fragmente din istoria viziunilor asupra lumii. Traditii si revolutii” (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest).
26-28.05.2011: Chairing a symposium on “Experimentalism and the Quest for Certainty in Cartesian Natural Philosophy” in the conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, “Passionate Minds. Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History” (Bucharest, Central University Library). Presentation of a paper on Moral and Absolute Certainty in the Foundation of Cartesian Natural Philosophy.
28.02.2011: Presentation of a paper on The Scientific Thought and the Limits of Mechanical Paradigm: the case of Cartesian philosophy (In Romanian: Gândirea ştiinţifică modernă şi limitele paradigmei mecanice: cazul filosofiei carteziene). Paper presented in the exploratory workshop –“Mind, Language, Representation” (Minte, Limbaj, Reprezentare) – of the postdoctoral program of the University of Bucharest.
18-20.11.2010: Chairing a symposium on “Cartesian Physics (as Experimental Philosophy) and its University Reception” in the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (Barcelona, Spain). Paper: Rohault’s ‘Traité de Physique’ and its Newtonian Reception.
20.10.2010: Paper presented in the Department Seminar of Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest: Cartesianism in the Journal des Savants between 1665 and 1671.
06-09.10.2010: Participation in the International Conference “The Limits of the Knowledge Society” (Iasi, Romania). Paper: Sharing Knowledge. Dealing with Censorship in the “Republic of Letters”.
06-07.09.2010: Presentation of a paper on the Knowledge of the physical body. Descartes and Cartesians on the quest for certainty in natural philosophy, in the „Second Young Researchers Days & Workshop on the Relations between Logic, Philosophy and History of Science” (Bruselles, Belgium).
30.06.-06.07.2010: Participation in Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy (Bran, Romania). Presentation of a paper with the title: Cartesianism and Chemistry: some early reactions.
24-27.06.2010: Participation in HOPOS conference (Budapest). I have presented a paper under the title of Jacques Rohault and the use of experiment in Cartesian physics.
25-31.07.2009: Presentation of a paper on Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Physics in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy (Bran, Romania).
26-27.03.2009: Participation in the Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, “Beyond Kuhnian paradigms: was there a scientific revolution in 17th century, after all?” Presentation of a paper with the title Cartesian Revolution: Descartes and early Cartesians on the foundations of physics.
12.12.2008: Presentation of a paper on The Cartesian Philosophy of Géraud de Cordemoy, in the seminars of the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought (New Europe College, Bucharest).
10-12.09.2008: Participation in the 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (Vienna), “Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology.” Presentation of a paper with the title: The Foundations of Physics: Descartes’s style of thinking and its Cartesian followers.
27.07.-03.08.2008: Participation in the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy (Malancrav, Romania). Contribution of a paper on A Tree without Roots? Descartes’s tree of knowledge and the early Cartesianism.
13-20.07.2008: Participation in the European Science Foundation’s Summer School, “The Soul: from Aristotelian ‘scientia de anima’ to early modern psychology.” Presentation of a lecture with the title: Figuring the Man Mechanism: Descartes and the Early Cartesians on the Structure of the Mind-Body Union.
30.06.-02.07.2008: Participation in the Bucharest colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, “Vanishing bodies and the birth of modern physics: experimental philosophy, speculative philosophy and the missing matter theory of the seventeenth century.” Presentation of a lecture on The invisible nature of body in Descartes’s natural philosophy.
12-13.06.2008: Participation in the workshop “Institutions and Networks”, Leuven (Belgium), part of the larger research program Circulating Knowledge in Early Modern Science. I have presented a paper under the title of Early Cartesianism in the Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth Century.
11-12.04.2008: Participation in the workshop “Epicurean and Anti-Epicurean themes in Early Modern Philosophy,” Leiden (The Netherlands). I have presented a paper under the title Shaping the Body: the Epicurean Temptation of the Early Cartesianism.
11.01.2008: Presentation of a paper at The New Europe College, Bucharest: Relatia dintre metafizica si fizica in lucrarile Cartezienilor (“The Relation between Metaphysics and Physics in the Works of Cartesians”). This is a part of the research project “The Seminars of The Foundations of Early Modern Thought.”
29.07.-03.08.2007: Participation in the Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy “Experiments, Reason, and Revelation: the moral value of studying nature in the seventeenth century” (Bran) organised by the Center of Research for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest. Presentation of a lecture on The Quest for Certainty in Cartesian Natural Philosophy.
22-25.04.2007: Participation in the workshop “Thought Experiments” (Athens) organised by the European Science Foundation in the large-scale program From Natural Philosophy to Science.
08-11.11.2006: Participation in the workshop “The Machine as Model and Metaphor” (Berlin) organised by the European Science Foundation in the large-scale program From Natural Philosophy to Science.
30.07.-04.08.2006: Participation in the Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy “Disseminating Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century: Centres and Peripheries in the Republic of Letters” (Bran) organised by the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest. Presentation of a lecture on Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth Century.
24.02.2006: Presentation of a paper at Radboud University Nijmegen: Descartes’s Matter Theory.
25-27.11.2004: Participation in the workshop “Mechanics and Cosmology” (Florence) organised by the European Science Foundation in the large-scale program From Natural Philosophy to Science.
06-12.09.2004: Participation in the Princeton/Arad Seminar: “Theories of Matter and Mind in the Seventeenth Century” (Arad) organised by the Center of Research for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest; Western University “Vasile Goldiş” Arad, and Association Roumaine des Chercheurs Francophones en Sciences Humaines. Presentation of a lecture on A Critique of the Cartesian Theory of Matter: Gérauld de Cordemoy.
10-15.06.2004: Participation in the Summer School “The Impact of the Humanities on the Developement of European Science” (Venice) organised by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and the Galileo Chair of History of Science of the University of Padua.
29.01.-02.02.2004: Participation in the workshop “Mechanics and Natural Philosophy: Accommodation and Conflict” (Tenerife) organised in the European Science Foundation program From Natural Philosophy to Science.
September 2003: Participation in the Summer School “Souls, Clocks, Atoms and Forces: Competing Models of Individuals in Early Modern Thought” (Macea) organised by the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest; Western University “Vasile Goldiş” Arad, and Association Roumaine des Chercheurs Francophones en Sciences Humaines. Contribution of a paper on A Soul Making Experiments: The Individualistic Approach to Experiment in Cartesian Natural Philosophy.
September 2002: Participation in the Summer School “Teaching History of Ideas as a Practice of Freedom” (Macea) organised by the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest; Western University “Vasile Goldiş” Arad, Association Roumaine des Chercheurs Francophones en Sciences Humaines, and New Europe College Bucharest. Presented of a lecture entitled Discourse on Descartes’ Method.
September 2001: Participation in the Summer School “Spaces of Freedom in Modern Thought. Individuals, Reformation Projects, Multiple Societies” (Tescani) organised by the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest, Association Roumaine des Chercheurs Francophones en Sciences Humaines, and New Europe College Bucharest. Leader of a debate on Eternal Truths and the Problem of Possible Worlds in Descartes’ Philosophy (together with Ciprian Tudor of the Politechnical Institute, Bucharest).
2000-2002: Participation in the workshop “Philosophy of Physics” at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
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