Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors
2023-06-15 08:00 - 2023-06-16 13:30 UTC | CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
The works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 1464) distinguish themselves by an extensive range of metaphors spanning from things and circumstances of everyday life and aspects of the natural world to cosmological phenomena and more abstract geometrical and mathematical images. Many of these metaphors challenge the reader due to their often unusual and daring combination of elements which appear to be semantically incongruous or remote from each other.

In the workshop, we want to take up this challenge and further explore both the scope and the particularities of Nicholas’ figurative language. In this attempt, the presented case studies will also serve as test cases to investigate conceptual issues of metaphor analysis, such as the relations of source and target domains and the mapping process.

You can register here: https://eveeno.com/sfb1475-cusanus-workshop-2023

PROGRAM

Thursday, 15 June 2023

10.00 – 10.15
Welcome + Introduction
Linda Simonis

10.15 – 10.30

On the CRC 1475 and Subproject C03
Knut Martin Stünkel

10.30 – 11.30
Cusanus’ Scientific Observations of the Physical World: The Most Direct Metaphorical Approach toward the Divine
Il Kim

11.30 – 12.00
Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.00
Problems of the Infinite Line of Nicholas of Cusa
David C. Albertson

13.00 – 14.30
Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.30
“All likenesses must shatter”: Exploding Metaphors, Exploding Texts in Nicholas of Cusa
Elizabeth Brient

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00
Presentation of the INF Project and the Thesaurus of Religious Metaphors
Frederik Elwert

17.00 – 17.30
On the Journal “Metaphor Papers”
Julia Heinig

18.30
Dinner

Friday, 16. June

10.00 – 11.00

Wege wagen mit Cusanus: Alchemistische Metaphorik des lateinischen Mittelalters in Rezepten, Dialogen und Predigten des deutschen Denkers des 15. Jhs.
Witalij Morosow

11.00 – 11.20
Coffee Break

11.20 – 12.15
Mill, Miller, and Grinding as Theological Comparisons and Metaphors in Cusanus' Sermones
Viki Ranff

12.15 – 13.00
Metaphors of Metabolisms in Cusanus' Sermons
Phoenix Savapakarn

13.00 – 14.00
Lunch Break

14.00 – 14.45
Cusanus' Every-Day Metaphors
Knut Martin Stünkel

14.45 – 15.30
Final Discussion

15.30
End of Conference

Here you can donwload the program as pdf file.
