Friday 11 November

Welcome by  Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d’Oxford 

Morning Session I 
Chair : Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) 

10.00am-11.15am Keynote Lecture
Peter Anstey (Otago University) 
Bacon, Ramus and the Interpretation of Nature 

Morning Session II 
Chair : Martine Pécharman (CNRS-MFO) 

11.30am-12.30pm 
Per Landgren (Wolfson College)  
Notiones Primae, Historiae Particulares et Inductio: Francis Bacon and the Aristotelian Concept of Historia 

12.30pm-1.00pm 
Raphaele Garrod (Cambridge University)  
Response to Per Landgren 

Afternoon Session I 
Chair : Noel Malcolm (All Souls College) 

2.15pm-3.15pm 
Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) 
The Hunt of Pan: Exploratory Experimentation and the Rules of Experientia Literata 

3.15pm-3.45pm 
Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College) 
Response to Dana Jalobeanu 

Afternoon Session II 

Chair : Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, London) 

4.30pm-5.30pm 
Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College) 
Francis Bacon and Ingenuity 

5.30pm-6.15pm 
Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest) 
Response to Rhodri Lewis

Saturday 12 November

Morning Session I 
Chair : Peter Anstey (Otago University) 

9.15am-10.15am 
Dan Garber (Princeton University) 
Bacon, New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia 

10.15am-10.45am 
Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Nijmegen) 
Response to Dan Garber

Morning Session II 
Chair : Howard Hotson (St Anne’s College) 

11.00am-12.00 
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge University) 
Interpreting Nature

12.00-12.30pm 
Julianne Werlin (Princeton University) 
Response to Richard Serjeantson

Afternoon Session 
Chair : Dan Garber (Princeton University) 

1.30pm-2.30pm 
Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College)  
Instances and Experiments 

2.30pm-3.00pm 
James Lancaster (Warburg Institute) 
Response to Kathryn Murphy 

3.00pm-4.00pm 
Elodie Cassan (CEC, Paris) 
Bacon in Gassendi’s History of Logic

4.00pm-4.30pm 
Madalina Giurgea (University of Ghent) 
Response to Elodie Cassan