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News from May and June 2024

  • New TOME’s project publication is out! Word as definition. A key principle of the Comenian project for universal language: its sources and contexts by Petr Pavlas is available here. The article investigates a broader milieu of the early modern projects of “universal languages” and the “word as definition” programme.
  • 28.-29. May SHAC meeting with Jo Hedesan, Petr Pavlas and Vojtěch Kaše took place in Oxford.
  •  Petr Pavlas, Lucie Storchová, Lenka Řezníková, Márton Szentpéteri, Martin Žemla and Alessandro Naninni presented talks within two conference panels at 11th annual meeting of Scientiae in Brussels 11.-14. June. The panels were titled 1. From Harmony to Vanity, and Back Again. Hope and Frustration in the Early Modern Knowledge Cultures through the Lens of Metaphorical Expression; 2. The Power of Taste, the Taste of Power, and Georgics of the Soul: Early Modern Psychophysical Metaphors of Knowledge. Here you can check the programme of the conference and the book of abstracts.

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