Call for Papers
ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION
- international conference at the University of Aarhus, Denmark
March 13-15, 2009
Keynote speakers: James Swenson & Blaise Bachofen
THE CONFERENCE IS HELD AT THE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY, BUILDING 1441, AUDITORIUM 3. EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Keynote speakers:
James Swenson : associate professor of French at Rutger’s Univerity specializing in eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history, and twentieth-century criticism and theory and the author of the highly acclaimed On Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution.
Blaise Bachofen: associate professor of philosophy at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, publisher of commented texts of Rousseau and the author of the acclaimed La condition de la liberté. Rousseau, critique des raisons politiques (The Condition of Liberty. Rousseau, a Critique of Political Reason).
The conference is organized by the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. The university is located right inside the center of the second largest city of Denmark and has easy access with train and airplane ( see this link which also includes information on hotels). The campus provides an excellent setting for the conference with its large park and easy atmosphere.
Organizers of the conference are PhD-scholar Holger Ross Lauritsen: idehrl@hum.au.dk and assistant professor Mikkel Thorup : idemt@hum.au.dk. If there are any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Participation Without Papers:
Deadline for registration for lunch/coffee to idehrl@hum.au.dk is march 10, 2009 .
Programme
Friday, March 13
09.00-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.30 Welcome
10.30-12.00 Keynote: James Swenson: “Terminer la Révolution et fonder la République: A Rousseauian Problematic?”
- 00-13.00 Lunch
- 00-14.30 Rousseau in the French Revolution
- Fayçal Falaky: “Revolutionizing Rousseau”
- Julian Bourg: “Rousseau and the Terror: A Reassessment”
- 30-15.00 Coffee
- 00-16.30 Lawgiver and Metaphors
- Federico Bonzi: ”The Figure of Lawgiver in Rousseau’s Political Philosophy”
- Antoine Hatzenberger: “Rousseau and the Revolutions of the Earth”
Saturday, March 14
09.00-10.30 Keynote: Blaise Bachofen:: “The Wakeful People versus the People Who Need to be Awakened: Why Rousseau Mistrusts Revolutions”
- 30-11.00 Coffee
- 00-12.30 Time, Space and Language
- Kevin Inston: “Revolutionary Time”
- Masano Yamashita, “The Revolutionary Return of the Orator”
- 30-13.30 Lunch
- 30-14.15 Rousseau in Modern Politics
- Bertel Nygaard: “Rousseau and the Making of Modern Politics”
15-14.45 Coffee
- 45-16.15 Rousseau, Hegel and Schmitt
- Angelica Nuzzo: “Contingency and Freedom:Rousseau, Hegel and Revolution”
- Celina M. Bragagnolo: “Rousseau in Weimar: Carl Schmitt’s Democratic Legitimacy and ‘Sovereign Dictatorship’”
Sunday, March 15
09.00-10.30 Rousseau on Economy and Ecology
- Fernando C. Quindos: “Rousseau and the green revolution”
- George Moraitis: “The Political Economy in the Rousseauian Revolutionary State”
- 30-11.00 Coffee
- 00-12.30 Insurrectionary Rousseau
- Jane A. Gordon: “Creolizing Political Thought: Reading Rousseau through Fanon”
- Holger Ross Lauritsen: “The General Will Between Insurrection and Repression”
This conference is sponsored by the Danish Research School for Philosophy, the History of Ideas and the History of Science (PHIS) and the Research Focus Globalization, University of Aarhus