Program

Collegium Spinozanum V

Begin: 29 June 2026, 9 am. End: 3 July 2026, 5 pm

Location

Building 11 (Psychology)

Address:
Universitätsstraße 37
58097 Hagen

Public transport: lines 540, 515, 527

By car: Take motorway A1 and exit at Hagen-Nord toward the city center, or take the A45/A46 to the Hagen interchange (Autobahnkreuz Hagen) and follow signs toward Hagen-Zentrum, then toward Boele / Feithstraße / Universitätsstraße.

Day 1 (Mon 29.06.2026)

17:00–19:00
Informal welcome gathering

Day 2 (Tue 30.06.2026)

D002 – D003
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09:30–10:30
Lecture 1: Alexander DouglasEach Thing is Essentially Everything: Antitelic Essences in Spinoza
10:30–11:15
Discussion
11:15–11:30
Coffee break
11:30–12:15
Session IJunshuo BianThe Constitution of Conatus: Imagined Subjectivity in the Passage of Power
Session IHadley CooneySpinoza on the Affect of Gratitude
Session IChristos KalpakidisUnity Without an Ego: Sartrean Consciousness Through a Spinozist Lens
12:15–13:00
Session IIAntonieta García RuzoBeyond Ontology: A Reading of Substance and Finite Modes
Session IISybrand VeegerSpinozist versus Cartesian generosity: friendship, remedy, freedom
Session IIEdgar GarzaThinking Decoloniality with Spinoza
13:00–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–14:45
Session IIIMeg GottschallSpinoza’s Attribute Theory: Conception, Perception…and Expression‘
Session IIIJonathan FeiThe Status of the Mos Geometricus in Spinozas’s Methodology
Session IIIXun ShuNatural Law as an Organic Whole
14:45–15:30
Session IVWing Yi Derek SoKeyword: the nature of the ideas that singular things can have
Session IVDavid HarmonSpinoza and the Physics of Imaginative Error
Session IVAlon IsraeliSpinoza’s Nature and the Foundations of Modern Biology
15:30–15:45
Coffee break
15:45–16:30
Session VDaniel BellaSpinoza’s Case for Part-Whole Identity in his Two Dialogues
Session VJohanna AltImagination and Scientific Enquiry in Spinoza’s Philosophy
Session VFabio CarnevaliA spinozist reading of eco-anarchism
16:30–17:15
Session VILeonardo MoauroFinal Ends without Final Causes: Spinoza on the Structure of Practical Reason
Session VIPeter SchildbergSpinoza’s Geometric Illustration in E2p8s
Session VIAliza AshrafAgainst human exceptionalism: The ‘othering’ of animals in Spinoza
17:15–18:30
Round table 1Who? / about?

Day 3 (Wed 01.07.2026)

D002 – D003
D1005
D1004
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09:30–10:30
Lecture 2: Julia PetersPrivatio nihil est? Hegel’s Critique of Spinoza on Negative Affect
10:30–11:15
Discussion
11:15–11:30
Coffee break
11:30–12:15
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Session VIIFlorian VermeirenSpinoza’s Return to Pre-Cartesian Mathematics
Session VIIAlessandro BalboSpinoza and Blijenbergh: a missed encounter. A political reading over the correspondence on necessity, good and bad
12:15–13:00
Session VIIIGiannis MaramathasSpinoza and Structure: revisiting an ongoing debate.
Session VIIIIoana BujorExploring the mechanisms underlying Spinoza’s Compendium of the Grammar of the Hebrew Language
Session VIIIAnne TexierSpinoza versus Machiavelli on political decision-making
13:00–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–14:45
Session IXMaho EifukuGod as Actus Purus: Aristotelian Moment in Spinoza’s Metaphysics
Session IXOctavio CarbonaraKeyword: Spinoza as a thinker of the scientific revolution
Session IXZehao YinSpinoza and Christianity: The Spirit of Christ and the Body of Christ
14:45–15:30
Session XLuce deLireSpinoza’s Metaphysics of Infinity – A One Size Fits All Crash Course
Session XSophia HallierTo what extent should philosophy be a narrative?
Session XRyenat ShvetsSpinoza in the 1920-1930s Ukrainian Philosophy
15:30–15:45
Coffee break
15:45–16:30
Session XIWangchen ZhouDesires without Lacks: A Non-Teleological Reading of Spinoza’s Metaphysical Psychology
Session XIAndrea MunforteThe Affective Power of Literature in a Spinozian Perspective
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16:30–17:15
Session XIIGiacomo ToreA semiotic reading of Spinoza’s theory of ideas
Session XIIFrancesco BelmonteAt the edge of truth: History, Narrative, Ideology in Spinoza
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17:15–18:30
Round table 2Spinozist networking in today’s academia, experiences, tips, tricks, projects

Day 4 (Thu 02.07.2026)

D002 – D003
D1005
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09:30–10:30
Lecture 3: Kirstin PrimusThe Reasoning Mind and its Acquiescentia
10:30–11:15
Discussion
11:15–11:30
Coffee break
11:30–12:15
Session XIIIRaphaelle DupontIdeas and their Objects: A Reassessment of Spinoza’s Parallelism
Session XIIIThomas CookBiography and Betrayal
Session XIIIPhilip FreytagBetween Normativity and Naturalism: Exploring the Rationality of Spinoza’s Political Philosophy
12:15–13:00
Session XIVDario ZoppettiDynamic Without Succession: Non-Transitive Identity and Spinoza’s Intellectual Love
Session XIVGrey LiuRecognition as Normative Fiction in Hobbes and Spinoza
Session XIVMélanie ZappullaFriendship in Spinoza: Beyond Egoism and Altruism
13:00–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–14:45
Session XVStephen HarropAn Incorruptible Crown”: Personal Identity and The Eternity of the Mind in Ethics V
Session XVLiam BarerWhat is Essential Between Spinoza and Hegel?
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14:45–15:30
Session XVIAntonio BorgeTowards and Objectivist Reading of Spinoza’s Panpsychism
Session XVIKlint ShimMonism without Acosmism: Spinoza on Individuation, Causation, and Negation.
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15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–17:30
Round table 3Where Is Work on Spinoza Heading?
18:00–20:00
Dinner

Day 5 (Fri 03.07.2026)

D002 – D003
D1005
D1004
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09:30–10:30
Lecture 4: Martin SaarSpinoza, Intersubjectivity, Transindividuality
10:30–11:15
Discussion
11:15–11:30
Coffee break
11:30–12:15
Session XVIIChristopher KluzAre All Ideas Affects for Spinoza? A Puzzle Concerning Desire and Belief
Session XVIIAlexander LegebekeSpinoza, Bayle, and the Problem of Evil: Schelling’s Transformation of Spinoza’s Pantheism
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12:15–13:00
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Session XVIIIKyriakos FytakisFrançois Lamy and Spinoza’s refutation
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13:00–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–15:00
Farewell drinks