{"id":222,"date":"2022-03-07T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:18:32","slug":"congreso-ciencia-e-ilustracion-en-la-espana-de-feijoo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/congreso-ciencia-e-ilustracion-en-la-espana-de-feijoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Congreso \u00abCiencia e Ilustraci\u00f3n en la Espa\u00f1a de Feijoo\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[Please scroll down for English version]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El s. XVIII aparece como un momento fundamental para entender la historia de la ciencia en Espa\u00f1a. Resulta significativo que el autor en lengua espa\u00f1ola m\u00e1s le\u00eddo de esa centuria sea Benito Jer\u00f3nimo Feijoo (seg\u00fan c\u00e1lculos de Jos\u00e9 M. Caso Gonz\u00e1lez, su&nbsp;<em>Teatro cr\u00edtico&nbsp;<\/em>y sus&nbsp;<em>Cartas eruditas y curiosas&nbsp;<\/em>habr\u00edan alcanzado en conjunto unas ventas de 300.000 vol\u00famenes hasta 1787, cifra verdaderamente asombrosa), en cuya obra est\u00e1 siempre presente la propagaci\u00f3n y defensa de las ciencias modernas. Pero, \u00bftiene \u00e9xito? Especialistas como Antonio Lafuente, Manuel Sell\u00e9s o Jos\u00e9 Manuel S\u00e1nchez Ron han considerado al benedictino como mero divulgador de las ideas cient\u00edficas de su tiempo, sin trascendencia real en el panorama filos\u00f3fico-cient\u00edfico espa\u00f1ol, mientras hay quien, como Richard Herr, sit\u00faa en su obra \u201cel principio de una nueva era\u201d en la vida intelectual espa\u00f1ola. En este congreso se quiere abordar la relaci\u00f3n entre ciencia e Ilustraci\u00f3n espa\u00f1olas, tratando los siguientes asuntos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) la situaci\u00f3n de las diferentes disciplinas cient\u00edficas en la Espa\u00f1a del s. XVIII;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b) la situaci\u00f3n de las ciencias espa\u00f1olas en el contexto europeo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c) el impacto de la obra de Feijoo en la comunidad cient\u00edfico-filos\u00f3fica y en las universidades;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d) ciencia y g\u00e9nero en los tiempos de Feijoo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e) la relevancia de la divulgaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica en la Ilustraci\u00f3n;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>f) el papel de las ciencias en las pol\u00edticas ilustradas del momento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modalidad<\/strong>: en l\u00ednea (via&nbsp;<em>Teams<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fechas de celebraci\u00f3n<\/strong>: 4 y 5 de mayo de 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Con la colaboraci\u00f3n del <a href=\"https:\/\/ifesxviii.uniovi.es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Online Conference: Science and Enlightenment in Feijoo&#8217;s Spain&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>18<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Century is a key moment to understand the history of science in Spain. Tellingly, the most widely read Spanish-language author of that century was Benito Jer\u00f3nimo Feijoo (according to calculations by Jos\u00e9 M. Caso Gonz\u00e1lez, his&nbsp;Teatro cr\u00edtico&nbsp;and his&nbsp;Cartas eruditas y curiosas&nbsp;would have reached sales of 300,000 volumes by 1787, a truly astounding figure), whose work was devoted to spread and defend modern science. But was he successful?&nbsp;Whereas specialists such as Antonio Lafuente, Manuel Sell\u00e9s and Jos\u00e9 Manuel S\u00e1nchez Ron consider Feijoo as a mere disseminator of the scientific ideas of his time, with no real contributions to the Spanish philosophical-scientific panorama, other authors, like Richard Herr, describe Feijoo\u2019s writings as<\/em> <em>\u00abthe beginning of a new era\u00bb in Spanish intellectual life. This conference aims to address the relationship between Spanish science and the Enlightenment, dealing with the following issues:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>a) the situation of the different scientific disciplines in 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century Spain;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>b) Spanish science within the European context;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>c) the impact of Feijoo&#8217;s work on the scientific-philosophical community and the universities;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>d) science and gender in Feijoo\u2019s time;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>d) the relevance of scientific dissemination in the Enlightenment;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>e) the role of science in the political agenda of the Enlightenment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Venue:&nbsp;<\/strong>on-line conference via&nbsp;<em>Teams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dates:\u00a0<\/strong>4-5 May 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In association with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ifesxviii.uniovi.es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feijoo Institute for 18th Century Studies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Please scroll down for English version] El s. XVIII aparece como un momento fundamental para entender la historia de la ciencia en Espa\u00f1a. Resulta significativo que el autor en lengua espa\u00f1ola m\u00e1s le\u00eddo de esa centuria sea Benito Jer\u00f3nimo Feijoo (seg\u00fan c\u00e1lculos de Jos\u00e9 M. Caso Gonz\u00e1lez, su&nbsp;Teatro cr\u00edtico&nbsp;y sus&nbsp;Cartas eruditas y curiosas&nbsp;habr\u00edan alcanzado en &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/congreso-ciencia-e-ilustracion-en-la-espana-de-feijoo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abCongreso \u00abCiencia e Ilustraci\u00f3n en la Espa\u00f1a de Feijoo\u00bb\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unioviedo.es\/feijoopro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}