Events
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- No registration necessary
- Photo ID required for entry
What are the prospects for radical thought in our own times? Some of the most eminent and interesting historians in the world come to the Heyman Center for the Humanities on March 1 for a daylong conference, to focus on some of the radical and dissenting voices of the Enlightenment in both Europe and America. At this conference, Joyce Appleby, Eric Foner, Jonathan Israel, Margaret Jacob, Phyllis Mack, and Deborah Valenze discuss subjects ranging from the relation between science, religion and politics to Jefferson's radicalism, and lessons will also be drawn for the prospect of radical thought and politics for our own times by tracing the roots of the radical tradition in the western world. That the range of ideas and innovations that emerged in Europe and in America over this period, which we have come to label the "Enlightenment," was far more varied than either that single label or the standard scholarship on the subject might suggest is made vibrantly clear.
Program
time9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Light Breakfast
time9:30am - 12:45pm EDT
1st Panel
The Radical Enlightenment: A Heavenly City With Many Mansions
Margaret C. Jacob
Professor of History
University of California, Los Angeles
The Socio-Cultural Structure of The Radical Enlightenment
Jonathan Israel
Professor of Modern European History
School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
time12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Lunch
time1:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
2nd Panel
Another Look at American Radicalism
Joyce Appleby
Professor Emerita
University of California, Los Angeles
Commentator
Eric Foner
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History
Columbia University
time3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Coffee Break
time4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
3rd Panel
Agency and the Unconsious: Spiritual Dreams in 18th Century Britian
Phyllis Mack
Professor of History
Rutgers University
Commentator
Deborah Valenze
Professor of History
Barnard College
Participants
- Margaret C. Jacob Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles
- Jonathan Israel Professor of Modern European History School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
- Joyce Appleby Professor Emerita University of California, Los Angeles
- Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University
- Phyllis Mack Professor of History Rutgers University
- Deborah Valenze Professor of History Barnard College