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Québec Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy / Séminaire québécois en philosophie moderneUniversité de Sherbrooke, Bishop’s University, and North Hatley, QC (Hovey Manor)Sherbrooke and North Hatley, QuébecThursday, September 26 (U Sherbrooke, room TBA)2:45-3:00  Welcome3:00-4:00  Jacqueline Lagrée (Rennes): “Salut et théodicée chez Hobbes et Spinoza”4:00-5:00  Andrea Sangiacomo (ENS – Lyon): “Expliquer la superstition: la doctrine du conatus de Spinoza et son évolution entre 1661 et 1670”5:00-6:00  Break: attendees go to Bishop's University by car-pooling6:00-7:30 (Bishop's University, room TBA)Tad Schmaltz (Michigan): “Descartes's Critique of Scholastic Teleology”Friday, September 27 (Hovey Manor)9:30-10:30  Joseph M. Anderson (South Florida): “Cartesian Privations or Regis’ Cartesian Material Causation”10:30-11:30  Celi Hirata (São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo): “La nécessité dans la controverse Hobbes-Bramhall”1:00-2:00  Francesca di Poppa (Texas Tech): “Shaftesbury’s Two Reasons”2:00-3:00  Francesco Maria Pirocchi (Sapienza, Rome): “The Great Pan is Dead! Van Dale, Fontenelle and the Oracles”3:30-5:00  Marilena Chaui (São Paulo): “La paix comme vertu politique chez Spinoza”Saturday, September 28 (Hovey Manor)9:30-10:30  Matthew McAndrew (Emory): “The Powers of the Soul: Wolff and Crusius on the Nature of Power”10:30-11:30  Anton Matytsin (Pennsylvania): “The Skeptical Consequences of Cartesian Dualism: The Decline of Metaphysics and the Rise of Probability”Website.Contacts: Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Québec à Trois-Rivières) and Sébastien Charles (Sherbrooke).