The idea of conferences of this year was to honour the contribution of the Berlin historians in the study of the medieval and pre-modern philosophy, around the work of Wolfgang H bener, which has taught for a long time the University Libre of Berlin (FU Berlin). Wolfgang H bener has however just left us prematurely, of continuation of a long illness, last March. These conferences, pronounced by two of his old boys, will explore topics expensive to his thought, to crossing between scholastic thought and modernity. She would also like to be a last homage to one of the most penetrating and atypical historians of Germany of postwar years.

In the programme:

On Thursday, June 7th, 16h00-18h00

STEPHAN MEIER-OESER: Language and thought of scholastic late of premodern thought. Internal aspects of a complicated relation .Stephan Meier-Oeser studied philosophy and history to the University Libre of Berlin, between others at Wolfgang H bener and Jacob Taubes. After a doctoral dissertation on the reception of the thought of Nicolas de Cues (Die Pr senz des Vergessenen. Zur der Philosophie of Nicolaus Cusanus vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, M nster, on 1988), he dedicated himself to long researches on the history of the concept of sign in late medieval philosophy, what in leading in the authorisation (Die Spur des Zeichen. Das Zeichen und Seine Funktion in der Philosophy of Mittelalters und der fr hen Neuzeit, Berlin - New York, on 1997). He is moreover a diligent collaborator of Historisches W rterbuch der Philosophie. For several years, he dedicates himself to the study of reports between mental pictures and language in the philosophy of the late Middle Ages and of the modernity. Stephan Meier-Oeser is currently scientific adviser to the European Academy Melanchthon de Bretten. Stephan Meier-Oeser est actuellement conseiller scientifique l Acad mie europ enne Melanchthon de Bretten.

On Friday, June 8th, 16h00-18h00

HENRIK WELS: Immortality, equality, independence. On the theory of soul in premodern philosophy Henrik Wels studied philosophy to the University Libre of Berlin, notably at Wolfgang H bener. Incorrigible bibliophile and d nicheur of manuscripts, Henrik Wels published several editions of texts: first Disputatio of enlivened the Jesuit Niccolo Baldelli (at the beginning of the XVIIth century), who manifests complex reports between psychology aristot licienne, averro ste and Alexandrine in the tradition of the Roman Secondary school (Amsterdam - Philadelphia, 2000), then an anonymous comment of the condemnation of 1277, written in the circle of Jean de Maisonneuve in the XVth century (Aristotelisches Wissen und Glauben im 15. Jahrhundert, Amsterdam - Philadelphia, on 2004). He also participated in of many translation, of which that of Writings of Bartolom de Las Casas in German. Henrik Wels is currently scientific collaborator of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of a plan on topic Integration and disintegration of cultures in the European Middle Ages (University of W rzburg), and he prepares a thesis of authorisation on the theories of soul between Middle Ages and modernity.

On Monday, June 11th, 14h00-16h00

Pre-modern mind " Round Table around the work of Wolfgang H bener (1934-2007), with the cooperation of Stephan Meier-Oeser, Henrik Wels, Ruedi Imbach and Jacob Schmutz.

All conferences will take place in room F037, UFR of philosophy, Paris - IV Sorbonne university (entered by 17, street of the Sorbonne, Staircase E, 2nd floor, to the right in the bottom of the corridor).

You will find all this information are taken back on the Pariscope du Centre Pierre Ab lard: http://www.abelard.paris-sorbonne.fr.