Friday, 5th June 2009 (German Historical Institute)
9:00 Welcome: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London)
9:15-11:15 Civic virtue in politics and commerce
Béla Kapossy (Lausanne): Rousseau’s thought in German Swiss debates on economic reform
Isaac Nakhimovsky (Cambridge): Rousseau and Fichte
11:30-13:00 Philanthropy, education and civic virtue
Andreas Gestrich (GHI London): Education and social reform in
Germany
Daniel Tröhler (Luxembourg): Rousseau and Swiss education reform
14:00-16.00 Women and civic virtue
Heide von Felden (Mainz): Notes on the reception of Rousseau among contemporary Women in German-speaking Europe
Karen O’Brien (Warwick): Women, Rousseau and civic virtue in Britain
Liselotte Steinbrügge (Bochum): Mary Wollstonecraft’s reception of Rousseau
16:30-18:00 Civic virtue between republicanism and monarchy
Iain McDaniel (Munich): Sociability, inequality, and the liberty of monarchies: revising Rousseau in the later Scottish Enlightenment
Ultán Gillen (Queen Mary): Civic virtue in Irish republican and loyalist political thought in the era of revolutions
18:20-19:00 Keynote lecture
Istvan Hont (Cambridge): J. J. Rousseau and Adam Smith
Saturday, 6th June 2009 (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at UCL)
9:30-11:00 Virtue, religion and the arts
Alexander Schmidt (Jena): German responses to Rousseau’s Discourse on the Arts and the Sciences
Brian Young (Oxford): The nature and status of civil religion in England, compared to Europe
11:30-13:30 Civic virtue, the state of nature, and contemporary society
Tristan Coignard (Bordeaux): Wieland’s reflections on civic virtue and the social contract: beyond a critical position against Rousseau?
Avi Lifschitz (UCL): Debates on civic virtue and the state of nature in Berlin of the mid-eighteenth century
Iain Hampsher-Monk (Exeter): Rousseau, Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society, and Revolutionary ideology
Commentators include: Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina), Frecderick Neuhouser (Columbia), John Robertson (Oxford), Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge), Richard Whatmore (Sussex).