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Between the Labyrinth and the Way of Light: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius

SYSNO ASEP	0547803
Document Type	U - Organizing Conference, Workshop, Exhibition
R&D Document Type	M - Uspořádání konference
R&D Document Type	Není vybrán druh dokumentu
Title	Between the Labyrinth and the Way of Light: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius
Author(s)	Urbánek, Vladimír (FLU-F)_{SAI, RID, ORCID} Řezníková, Lenka (FLU-F)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Pavlas, Petr (FLU-F)_{ORCID, RID, SAI}
Event type	K - Konference
Event date	01.09.2021 - 04.09.2021
VEvent location	Prague
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Event type	WRD
Total number of participants	39
Number of foreign participants	19
Language	eng - English
Keywords	early modern period ; metaphors of knowledge ; J. A. Comenius ; transmission of knowledge ; encyclopaedism
Subject RIV	AB - History
OECD category	History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Institutional support	FLU-F - RVO:67985955
Annotation	The international conference “Between the Labyrinth and the Way of Light: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge and Johannes Amos Comenius” was organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Warsaw. The aim of the conference was twofold. Its first purpose was to discuss and analyse metaphors representing scholarship, learning and knowledge in broad context of early modern scholarly discourse. An ambition of the organizers was to focus on their multiplicity, function and ambivalent standing in various disciplinary, local and linguistic contexts. The second focus of the conference was Johannes Amos Comenius and his works. Like his contemporaries, he enjoyed making use of rich figurative language. In his texts he employed many traditional and less usual metaphors through which he conceptualised knowledge, learning, memory, the universe, humankind, God and a lot of other things. The conference included twelve panels. Twenty five scholars from nine countries met in the Academic Conference Centre in Prague while fourteen specialists joined the meeting online. Thirty one papers were presented and followed by rich discussions.
Workplace	Institute of Philosophy
Contact	Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360
Year of Publishing	2022

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