Conference at Nantes, France, January 20-21, 2016

I'm very pleased to announce that the Conference, "Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: 16th-17th Centuries," will be held at Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France, January 20-21, 2016.

 

List of confirmed participants and topics

(in alphabetical order of last name):

1. Thomas Ahnert (University of Edinburgh) - "Christian Thomasius (1655-1728)"
2. Andre Santos Campos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - "The Social Contract Tradition(s): Agreements and Reconstructions"
3. Cristina Ciucu (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) - "Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) sur la réforme religieuse et sociale"
4. Hugues Daussy (Université de Franche-Comté) - "Les "lois et constitutions du royaume" dans la pensée politique huguenote"
5. Marta García-Alonso (Universidad nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) - "Pierre Bayle: la souveraineté, condition de la tolérance"
6. Cécile Huchard (Université de Lorraine) - "Théorie constitutionnelle dégagée des pamphlets protestants français des Guerres de religion"
7. Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) - "Anti-Theological Foundations of Modern Constitutional Theory: The Dutch Revolt and the Dutch Republican Tradition in European Context (1572-1688)"
8. John Christian Laursen (University of California at Riverside) - "Erasmus and Arguments for Toleration from Christian Cynicism"
9. Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford) - "Hugo Grotius: Christianity, Liberty and the Commonwealth"
10. Thomas Poole (London School of Economics and Political Science) - "Theology and Constitutional Theory in Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington"
11. Mario Turchetti (Université de Fribourg) - ""Bon prince et mauvais prince" dans l'Institutio principis Christiani (1516) d'Érasme (1469-1536)"
12. John Witte, Jr. (Emory University Law School, Atlanta - chapter contributor) - "Prophets, Priests, and Kings: John Milton and the Reformation of Rights and Liberties in England" (or, "A New Magna Carta for the Early Common Law: An 800th Anniversary Essay")
13. Ki-Won Hong (Seoul National University) - "Theological Foundations of G. W. Leibniz's Conception of Universal Republic"