Friday,
February 6 ______________________________
9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m. —
Session 1
Welcome
and Opening Remarks
Peter
H. Reill, UCLA
Françoise Waquet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS), Paris
Communication in the Republic of Letters’ Theory and Practices
Antonio Clericuzio, Università degli Studi di Cassino
Italian Scientists and the Royal Society
Malina Stefanovska, UCLA; Université de Lausanne
Spreading Secrets, Keeping Rumors: Political Communication during
the Fronde in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz
12:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30
p.m. — Session 2
Stefano Di Bella, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
The Revealing Cipher: Nature and Art Codes in Leibniz
Paolo Ponzio, Università degli Studi di
Bari
Communication and Dissimulation in the First Lyncean Academy: The
Case of Galileo
Irving Lavin, Institute for Advanced Study
Caravaggio’s Divine Dissimulation
Stefano Cracolici, University of Pennsylvania
The Ability to Cheat: Love as Dissimulation
5:00 p.m. – Reception
Saturday,
February 7
______________________________
9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10:00 a.m.— Session
3
Jean-Robert Armogathe, École Pratique des
Hautes Études, Sorbonne
Breaking the Cipher: Secret Writing and Mathematics in Seventeenth-Century
Europe
Marco Panza, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris;
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA),
Barcelona
What Analysis Hides: Some Reflection on Viète’s Reform
of the Method of Analysis and Synthesis
Kirstie M. McClure, UCLA
Poetry, Stoics, and Friesland Sheep: Lockean Language in Exile
12:30
p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. — Session
4
Daniel Garber, Princeton University
What Did Leibniz Really Believe?
Giulia Belgioioso and Massimiliano Savini, Università degli Studi
di Lecce
Signs and Ciphers and Symbols in Descartes
John D. Lyons, University of Virginia
Naturally Secret: The Cosmos as Model of Dissimulation
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