Erasmus's Social Network: Talk at Erasmus House (30 April 2009)

2.0., Netlog, Facebook: sometimes one wonders how Vives and Erasmus would have dealt with these means of social networking. It's all the more exciting however to learn how a researcher today succeeds in unearthing the intellectual network of a humanist who lived 500 years ago.

Tomorrow, 30 April 2009 at 7.30 p.m., Franz Bierlaire, professor at ULg, University of Liège, and at the ULB , University of Brussels, delivers a talk, in French, at the Erasmus House at Brussels entitled "Le carnet d'adresses d'Erasme" or "Erasmus's address book".

Primary source is Erasmus's correspondence. Bierlaire will show to what extent the humanist's network helped to shape his writings.

Venue: Rue du Chapitre 31 Kapittelstraat 31, 1070 Brussels (Anderlecht). Metro: Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido.