Jacob Boehme and His World

An international conference organized by Andrew Weeks (Illinois State University) and Bo Andersson (Uppsala Universitet), to present the historical contexts centred in the texts of Boehme's work.
Keynote Speakers: Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) and Leigh Penman (University of Queensland)

Conference Program

Afternoon and Evening, Friday, July 4

4:00-4:30
Conference Opening, Greeting

4:30-5:20
KEYNOTE: Howard Hotson (University of Oxford), “Jacob Böhme’s Historical World”

5:20-6:10
Bo Andersson (Uppsala universitet), “Jacob Böhme’s Philosophical Writing: A Rational Approach”

6:10-7:00
Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam), “Opus Magnum Boehmianum: Alchemy in the Context of Böhme's Work”

7:30

Conference Dinner

Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, Saturday, July 5

9:00-9:50
Gerold Necker (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), “Divine Letters: Language as reflected in Kabbalistic Literature around 1600”

9:50-10:40
Kristine Hannak (Universität Tübingen), Lucinda Martin (Gotha Research Centre, Universität Erfurt), “Jacob Böhme and the Crisis of Piety of his Time. Exemplified by Johann Arndt and Martin Moller”

10:40-11:00
BREAK

11:00-11:50
Lutz Pannier (Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften), “The Sciences of the Stars in Böhme’s World”

12:00-2:00
LUNCH AND PAUSE

2:00-2:50
Urs Leo Gantenbein (Zürich Paracelsus Project), “The Reception of the Paracelsian Theological Writings in Böhme’s City and Region”

2:50-3:40
Andrew Weeks (Illinois State University), “Jacob Böhme, Johannes Staricius, and Their Dissenting Circles”

4:00-6:00
AFTERNOON BREAK AND PAUSE

EVENING PROGRAM (given in the German language for the benefit of the public)

6:10-7:00
KEYNOTE: Leigh Penman (University of Queensland), “A Web of Heretics? A sketch of Jacob Böhme’s Networks in Görlitz, Upper Lusatia and Lower Silesia” (Eine Ketzerkabale? Jacob Böhmes Netzwerk der Kontakte in Görlitz, Oberlausitz und Schlesien)

7:00-7:50
Ina Anders (Oberlausitzische Bibliothek der Wissenschaften), “Jacob Böhme’s Görlitz”

8:00
RECEPTION

Morning, Sunday, July 6

9:00-9:50
Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths, University of London), “Böhme and the English Philadelphians”

9:50-10:40
Mike A. Zuber (University of Amsterdam), “Georg von Welling and Jacob Böhme's Theosophy”

10:40-11:30
Scott Brown (St. Louis), “Jacob Böhme and the Image of the World”

11:30
Open-ended discussion of the conference results and planned volume

Afternoon, Sunday, July 6

12:30
INFORMAL GATHERING IN THE JACOB BÖHME HAUS
(Zgorzelec, Poland)

For more information, please contact
Andrew Weeks:  or
Bo Andersson:  

Address: Oberlausitzische Bibliothek der Wissenschaften
Görlitzer Sammlungen für Geschichte und Kultur
Johannes-Wüsten-Saal
Neißstraße 30
D-02826 Görlitz

For further information check the conference homepage at http://www.moderna.uu.se/Boehme2014/

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