Conference · 12–13 June 2026
Francis Bacon: Four Centuries of Thought, New Horizons for Research
UTN · Organized by Dana Jalobeanu and Rodolfo Garau.
Seminars · conferences · summer schools
Recorded events
A record of the meetings that shaped our research community, from the first Bucharest–Princeton summer school in 2001 to recent conferences at UTN. This page gathers historical event records; it is not a catalogue of video recordings.
Bucharest–Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Summer editions, 2001–2017
The seminar began in 2001 as a two-week summer school in philosophy and the history of ideas. The editions below are transcribed from the seminar’s published history. That history says the summer meetings continued through 2019; it does not give individual edition details for 2018 or 2019.
Spaces of Freedom in Modern Thought
Individuals, Reformation Projects, Multiple Societies · Tescani · 2–13 September
Enseigner l’histoire des idées comme pratique de la liberté
Modèles d’explication concurrents dans la pensée moderne · Macea · 30 August–13 September
Souls, Clocks, Atoms and Forces
Competing Models of Individuals in Early Modern Thought · Macea · 30 August–14 September
Theories of Matter and Mind in the 17th Century
Arad · 6–12 September
The Great Instauration
Science, Philosophy and the Reformation of Knowledge in the 17th Century · Bran · 2–7 July
Disseminating Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century
Centres and Peripheries in the Republic of Letters · Bran · 30 July–4 August
Experiments, Reason and Revelation
The Moral Value of Studying Nature in Early Modernity · Bran · 28 July–3 August
8th edition
Mălâncrav · 29 July–4 August
9th edition · Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus
Bran · 25–31 July
Non-Mechanical Philosophies in the Seventeenth Century
Bran · 30 June–6 July
Collaborative Aspects of Early Modern Thought
Philosophical Correspondence and the Republic of Letters · Bran · 2–7 July
The Battle for “Scientia” in the Seventeenth Century
Bran · 29 June–4 July
The Losers of the Scientific Revolution
Bran · 5–10 July
De rerum natura
Naturalism, Supernaturalism, Unnaturalism · Bran · 8–13 July
Philosophical Conversations
Intellectual Interactions in the 17th Century · Bran · 12–17 July
The Architecture of Reason
Laws, Axioms and Principles in Early Modern Thought · Alba Iulia · 12–16 July
17th edition
Bran · 28 June–4 July · Organizers: Dana Jalobeanu, Daniel Garber, Mihnea Dobre and Oana Matei
The seminar history describes the series as interdisciplinary, bringing together philosophy, intellectual history, history and philosophy of science, and history of art.
Princeton–Bucharest Virtual Seminar
Online programme, 2020–2022
When the planned 2020 summer meeting was cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, the seminar moved online. The Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Bucharest preserves programme pages for Summer and Fall 2020, Spring and Fall 2021, and Spring and Fall 2022.
Browse the archived programme at ICUB → · Watch available seminar recordings on YouTube →
Conferences and summer schools
Recent major events
These larger meetings have their own event records. Regular seminars and future listings remain on seminars.danajalobeanu.com.
Seminar · 5–10 July 2026
Princeton–Bucharest–Nuremberg Seminar
Error, Falsehood and Forgery in Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences · Kloster Speinshart.
Summer school · 22–25 September 2026
Rome–Nuremberg–Oxford Postgraduate Summer School
Writing Practices: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives · Villa Maria, Rome.