The Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University is collaborating with the university’s Institute of Greco-Roman Studies to host an international workshop entitled “Aristoteles Asianus: Aristotle’s works, the Coimbra texts, and Jesuits’ Chinese translations in the seventeenth century.” The three-day event takes place online from February 1-3.
More on the unique educational influence of the Coimbra Jesuit Aristotelian instruction that stretched from Portugal to Asia and South America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries — including peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries and free access to digitized versions of the most important documents related to the topic — can be found at Conimbricenses.org. The project is a collaborator with the Portal to Jesuit Studies and with the Jesuit Online Bibliography.
A full program and details on accessing the virtual meeting are available online. A copy of the program also appears below.
Program (all times KST)
February 1, Monday
18:00-18:10 (KST) Opening ceremony
Chair: AHN, Jaewon/Seoul National University
18:10-19:00
CARVALHO, Mário Santiago de (The University of Coimbra), “Couto’s Dialectics: From its Portuguese Setting to its Eastern”
19:00-19:10 Break
19:10-20:00
HUH, Min Jun (Seoul National University), “About the differences (殊) in Wugong (Isagoge) and their historical background”
20:00-20:10 Break
20:10-21:00
ZHANG, Yijing (Nankai University), “Is Mingli tan a ‘good’ translation?”
February 2, Tuesday
(Chair: AHN, Jaewon/Seoul National University)
18:00-18:50
MOON, Sujeong (Seoul National University), “How Isagoge was translated into Chinese? – Focusing on the
first paragraph of ‘Lunshu[論殊]’ of Minglitan-Wugongpian [名理探-五公篇]”
18:50-19:00 Break
19:00-19:50
JIANG, Lu (Sun Yat-sen University), “The treatment of ‘ens rationis’ in Mingli tan”
19:50-20:00 Break
20:00-20:50
SOH, Jeanhyoung (Seoul National University), “What God was not: A Portuguese Jesuit’s Chinese translation of geometric terminology”
February 3, Wednesday
Chair: KANG, Sung-Hoon/Seoul National University
18:00-18:50
MEYNARD, Thierry (Sun Yat-sen University), “A Thomistic argumentation on creationism in Late Ming
China: The first juan of the Explanation of the Cosmic Reality (Huanyou quan)”
18:50-19:00 Break
19:00-19:50
STROB, Anna (Tuebingen University), “Mission Impossible? The Translation of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy to Late Ming China: The Example of Alfonso Vagnone’s Kongji gezhi 空際格致?”
19:50-20:00 Break
20:00-21:00 Round table and closing ceremony
Chair: AHN, Jaewon