Rousseau's Legacies / Les Fortunes
de Rousseau
Preliminary Program
Thursday, June 25
2:45 p.m.
Opening Session Welcoming
remarks: Peter H. Reill,
Professor of History and Director of the Center for 17th and 18th Century
Studies and of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
John T. Scott, University of California,
Davis, "The Perfection of
Rousseau's Perfectibilité in Late Eighteenth-Century
French and British Thought."
Julie E. Cooper, University of Chicago,
"Rousseau's Secular Self-Love."
Julia Simon, University of California,
Davis, "Cow Calls and Songs of Savages: Rousseau and Ethnomusicology."
4:30 Break
5:00
Session II Plenary
address
Philip
Stewart, Benjamin E. Powell Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies, Duke
University "'…et cet homme,
ce sera moi'" : a legacy of egocentrism?"
6:00 p.m. Reception
Friday, June 26
9:00 a.m.
Session III Alla Polosina,
Musée d'Etat Léon Tolstoï, "Rousseauisme de Tolstoi."
Julie Candler Hayes, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, "A Legacy of Mixed Feelings: Thiroux
d'Arconville's Examen des ouvrages de J.J Rousseau (1803)."
Charles Griswold, Boston University, "Pitié, Sympathy, and Narrative: Adam Smith's Reply to
Rousseau."
10:30 a.m. Coffee break
11:00
a.m.
Session IV Jim Block, De Paul University,
"Rousseau and the Renewal of Human Development Studies."
Caroline L. Mineau,
Université Laval, "Le courage d'être soi: Nature et singularité de
Rousseau à Stendhal."
Masano Yamashita,
University of Colorado, Boulder, "L'écriture
de soi après Rousseau: Théories et limites de la narrativité chez Stendhal et
Barthes."
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Session V Christopher Bertram, Bristol University,
"The Will of the People: Rousseau's Divided Legacy."
Blaise Bachofen,
Université de Cergy-Pontoise, "Guerre et droit
politique: la thématique de la raison d'Etat chez Rousseau."
3:00
p.m. Break
3:30
p.m. Business
meeting
4:30
p.m.
Session VI Michael O'Dea, Université
de Lyon 2, "The Ambiguous Legacy of Rousseau as Music Theorist."
Nathan John Martin, McGill University, "Rousseau,
Gluck, and Armide."
Jacqueline Waeber,
Duke University, "The Legacy of Rousseau's Musical Thought: Two
Centuries of Misunderstanding."
Saturday,
June 27
9:00
a.m.
Session VII Grace Roosevelt, Metropolitan College of
New York, "Nurturing Resistance: The
Subversive Legacy of
Rousseau's Emile."
Cecilia Feilla,
Marymount Manhattan College, "Bodies of Knowledge, The Tutor in Literature
after Rousseau."
Kimmo Kontio,
University of Oulu, "Rousseau's Pedagogical Legacy."
10:30
a.m. Coffee break
11:00
Session VIII Philip Knee,
Université Laval, "Autorité et démocratie: la critique
contre-révolutionnaire de Rousseau."
Catherine Labro, Université de
Clermont-Ferrand, "Rousseau totalitaire contre Rousseau démocrate: enjeu
et critique d'une polémique marginalisée dans l'exégèse rousseauiste des années
1960."
Céline Spector,
Université de Bordeaux 3, "Lectures libérales et communautariennes
de Rousseau: le chiasme."
12:30 Lunch
(catered)
2:00
Session IX Ourida Mostefai,
Boston College, "Portrait du philosophe en arménien:
la postérité des figures de la marginalité chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
Jason Neidleman, University of
La Verne, "Un Cosmopolite malgré
lui: Rousseau's Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism and its Implications
for Democratic Citizenship."
John C. O'Neal, Hamilton College, Saint-Preux Becomes a Woman:
Gender-Bending in Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse."
3:30 Break
4:00
Session X Zev Trachtenberg, University of
Oklahoma, "Did We Inherit Our
Trouble with Wilderness from Rousseau?"
Carole Martin, Texas State University, "La fortune du promeneur solitaire."
Alexandra Cook, University of Hong Kong,
"A 'forged' legacy: the
botanical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
5:30 Reception