13.00

Reception

13.30-13.50

Welcome and opening of the conference by Irene Zwiep (director of UvA - ICH) and Henk Wals (director of Huygens Institute - KNAW)

13.50-14.50

Keynote lecture by Françoise Waquet

Le bilinguisme dans l'Université du XVIIIe siècle

14.50-15.10

Coffee/Tea

15.10-15.50

Joep Leerssen

Latinity and the nationalization of culture

15.50-16.30

Elisabeth Klecker

Latin Journalism in Baroque Vienna

16.30-17.30

Keynote lecture by Floris Cohen

18.45

Simple dinner at Vertigo in Vondelpark (optional)

20.00

Opera per tutti in Vondelkerk (optional)

9.30-10.10

Dirk van Miert

Language and Communication in the Republic of Letters (Scaliger)

10.10-10.50

Ari Wesseling

Erasmus and the Vernacular

10.50-11.30

Guillaume van Gemert

From Aristarch to Jesuit Poetry. The Shifting Interrelation between Latin and the Vernacular in the German Lands in Early Modern Time

11.30-11.45

Coffee/Tea

11.45-12.45

Keynote lecture by Ingrid Rowland

Science and Rhetoric from Giordano Bruno's De Immenso to Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems

12.45-13.40

Lunch

13.40-14.20

Demmy Verbeke

Types of bilingual presentation (bilingual publications)

14.20-15.00

Jacqueline Borsje

Multilingual charms from Western Europe

15.00-15.30

Juliette Groenland

19.00

Conference diner (Amsterdam Academic Club)

10.00-10.40

David Rijser

Horace and Petrarch's Canzoniere

10.40-11.20

Arie Schippers

Medieval languages and literatures in Italy and Spain. Functions and Interactions in a Multilingual Society

11.20-12.00

Arjan van Dixhoorn

The cosmopolitanism of Dutch rhetoricians

12.00-13.00

Lunch

13.00-14.00

Keynote lecture by Wiep van Bunge

Philosophy and the Search for a Language of Its Own

14.00-14.40

Eva del Soldato

An Aristotelian at the Academy

14.40-15.20

Vera Keller

Ancients reborn (within the vernacular philosophical works of Drebbel and Jonston)

15.20-15.50

Coffee/Tea

15.50-16.30

General discussion

16.30

Drinks