Freedom, Servitude and Politics in Renaissance France
Warburg Institute, Friday 7 February 2020
A One-Day Colloquium organised by Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and John O’Brien (Durham University)
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Programme
10.00 Doors open. Registration and coffee.
10.25 Raphaële Mouren and John O’Brien: Welcome
10.30 John O’Brien (Durham): ‘Mais de quel roi parlez-vous, et de quel prince? Sovereign Power, Freedom and La Boétie’s Servitude volontaire in the 1580s’
11.20 Laurent Gerbier (Tours): ‘Subjectivation et assujettissement: Deux manières de produire un sujet chez La Boétie ’
12.10 Olivier Guerrier (Toulouse): ‘Verba ligant homines, taurorum cornua funes ’
1 pm: Lunch
2.00 Emma Claussen (Cambridge): ‘Est-ce vivre? The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne’
2.50 Wes Williams (Oxford): ‘Quel monstre de vice [...] que la langue refuse de nommer? Monsters and the Politics of Naming in the Discours de la servitude volontaire (and beyond)’
3.40 Tea
4.00 Sophie Nicholls (Oxford): ‘Order and Liberty in the Wars of Religion’
4.50 John O’Brien: Summary and Conclusions
5.00 Close and Wine Reception