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Organized by the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in Cooperation with the German Spinoza Society (Topoi Building, Hannoversche Straße 6)Thursday, June 14, 20129:00 Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität)Welcome and Introduction9:15 Speaker: Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University)“Spinoza’s Two Doctrines of Parallelism and his Metaphysics of Thought”10:00 Commentator: Stephan Schmid (Humboldt-Universität)10:15 Discussion11:00 Coffee Break11:15 Speaker: Noa Shein (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)“Spinoza on Individuation and Causation”12:00 Commentator: Christian Barth (Humboldt-Universität)12:15 Discussion13:00 Lunch14:30 Speaker: Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku)“Spinoza’s Essentialism”15:15 Commentator: Andreas Schmidt (Universität Tübingen)15:30 Discussion16:15 Coffee Break16:30  Speaker: Martin Lenz (Humboldt-Universität)“Spinoza on Essence and Normativity”17:15 Commentator: Johannes Haag (Universität Potsdam)17:30 Discussion18:15  Coffee Break18.30 Speaker: Pedro Stoichita (Universität der Künste, Berlin)“Variations on Spinoza – Attempt at a visual scientia intuitiva” (Art Project)19.30 Dinner&#160;Friday, June 15, 20129:15  Speaker: Ursula Renz (Universität Klagenfurt)“Against Pantheism”10:00 Commentator: Markus Wild (Humboldt-Universität)10:15 Discussion11:00 Coffee Break11:15 Speaker: Robert Schnepf (Universität Halle)“Spinoza on Substance and Mode”12:00 Commentator: Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Jyväskylä / Humboldt-Universität)12:15 Discussion13:00 Lunch