ENLIGHTENMENT COSMOPOLITANISM
A MANCHESTER-OXFORD COLLOQUIUM
ORGANISED AND HOSTED BY
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR COSMOPOLITAN CULTURES (RICC)
AND THE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS AND CULTURES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
20 and 21 November 2008, Arthur Lewis Board Room (2.016 and 2.017)
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PROGRAMME
20 November
16.40 Coffee and registration
17.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
17.15-18.30 Key-Note Address by Robert Fine (Warwick): Reflections on the cosmopolitan tradition as a philosophy of right
21 November
9.00-10.45 Panel One: (Trans)National Perspectives
T. J. Reed (Oxford): Germany: The Straggler as Leader
Ritchie Robertson (Oxford): Cosmpolitanism vs. Patriotism in the German and Austrian Enlightenments
Andrei Zorin (Oxford): Feeling across Borders: The Europeanization of Russian Nobility through Emotional Patterns
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.45 Panel Two: Agents
Ann Jefferson (Oxford): From Parnassus to Cultural Relativism: The Geography of Genius in eighteenth-century France
Louise Crowther (Manchester Metropolitan): Spinoza's Impact on Europe
David Adams (Manchester): Cosmopolitan Book Publishing: The Case of the Encyclopédie
12.45-2.30 Lunch Break
2.30-4.15 Panel Three: Afterlives
Jeremy Tambling (Manchester): ‘Ma in Espagna son gia mille e tre': Don Giovanni and Cosmopolitan Culture Stephen Reyna (Manchester and Max Planck Institute, Halle/Saale): Undulating Telos: the Rise and Fall of the Concept of Progress in Anglo-Saxon Anthropology Galin Tihanov (Manchester): ‘Eternal Peace': Romantic and Post-Romantic Responses
4.15-5.00 Concluding Discussion
There is no attendance fee. Coffee and tea will be provided free of charge.
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REGISTRATION FORM
ENLIGHTENMENT COSMOPOLITANISM
A MANCHESTER-OXFORD COLLOQUIUM
ORGANISED AND HOSTED BY
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR COSMOPOLITAN CULTURES (RICC)
AND THE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS AND CULTURES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
20 and 21 November 2008, University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Board Room (2.016 and 2.017)
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