Friday, December 11
Presiding: Uwe Steiner (Rice University)
9-9:45 am Welcome by Allen Matusow, Dean of the School of Humanities, and Caroline Levander, Director of the Humanities Research Center
10-11 am Hubert Cancik (Universität Tübingen), Nature and Human Rights: Ancient Foundations of a Modern Concept (Moderator: Harvey Yunis, Rice University)
11 am-12 noon Georg Essen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen/KWI), “Is There Anything More Insane to Be Conceived?” Human Rights, the Catholic Church, and the Ideas of 1789 (Moderator: Steven Crowell, Rice University)
2-3 pm Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University), Kant and Revolution (Moderator: Christian J. Emden, Rice University)
3-4 pm Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University), Hannah Arendt’s Struggle with Her Century: Reflecting on Eighteenth-Century Revolutions in the Age of Totalitarianism (Moderator: Christian J. Emden, Rice University)
4:30-5:30 pm Hans-Helmuth Gander (Universität Freiburg/Br.), Husserl and Heidegger on Humanism (Moderator: Steven Crowell, Rice University
Saturday, December 12
Presiding: Christian J. Emden (Rice University)
9-10 am William Rasch (Indiana University–Bloomington), City or Soul? On the Political Primacy of Civil Peace (Moderator: Peter C. Caldwell, Rice University)
10-11 am Hauke Brunkhorst (Universität Flensburg), Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Revolutions (Moderator: John H. Zammito, Rice University)
11:30 am-12:30 pm Günther Lottes (Universität Potsdam), Historical Progress v. Human Rights: Well-Hidden Contradictions in Meaning Well (Moderator: Uwe Steiner, Rice University)
2-3 pm Alexander Honold (Universität Basel), The Celebration of Time in the Revolutionary Community: From Robespierre to Schiller and from Rousseau to Hölderlin (Moderator: Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Rice University)
3-4 pm John Hamilton (Harvard University), “Ich liebe dich wie das Grab”: Rhetoric, Revolution, and Necromancy in Dantons Tod (Moderator: Bernd Seidensticker, Freie Universität Berlin)
4:30-5:30 pm Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Universität Leipzig), New Ways of Knowing Things in the Eighteenth Century (Moderator: John H. Zammito, Rice University)
Sunday, December 13
Presiding: Martin Vöhler (Freie Universität Berlin)
10-11 am Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Universität Hannover), Philology, Theory, and “Aesthetic Revolution” in Friedrich Schlegel (Moderator: Uwe Steiner, Rice University)
11 am-12 noon Karin Gludovatz (Freie Universität Berlin), Goya’s Revolutions and the Solitude of Heroes (Moderator: Bernd Seidensticker, Freie Universität Berlin)
2-3 pm Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert (De Paul University), Alexander von Humboldt’s Presentation of the Spanish American Landscape: A Case of Interpretative Justice (Moderator: Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University)
3-4 pm Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia), Humanism and the (Other) American Revolution (Moderator: Caroline Levander, Rice University)
6-7 pm Visit to Houston Public Library Exhibition In Pursuit of Knowledge: 600 Years of Leipzig University, guided by Ulrich Johannes Schneider