Programme
Thursday, 10am—12.15pm : Crisis and History
Michael Loriaux, Northwestern University : “Thucydides on Life and Community ?”
Romain Descendre, ENS de Lyon : “What is ‘civil life’ ? Machiavelli and the crisis of the vivere civile.”
Pierre Girard, ENS de Lyon/UniversityLyon III : “Community and Nation in Vico’s New Science.”
Thursday, 2—4.15pm : Theorizing the Body Politic
Didier Ottaviani, ENS de Lyon : “The Political Body in theDefensor Pacisof Marsilius of Padua : Metaphor or Analogy ?”
Delphine Kolesnik, ENS de Lyon : “Y-a-t-il une pensée du corps politique dans le cartésianisme ?”
Thursday, 4.30—6pm : The Legacy of Spinoza
Julie Henry, ENS de Lyon : “The body politic in Spinoza’s Political Treatise : maintaining its form with regard to freedom of judgment.”
Lars Tønder, Northwestern University : “The Life of Hilaritas : Spinoza on the Power of Body Politics.”
Friday, 10—12.15pm : Words and Images
William West, Northwestern University : “Shakespeare as a French Playwright ?”
Ross Carroll, Northwestern University : “The Best Way of Answering Dr Sacheverell ? : Community and the Limits of Shaftesbury’s Ridicule.”
Beate Langenbruch, ENS de Lyon : “Questions of life and community in contemporary literary andcinematographic medievalism : Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
Friday, 2.00—4.15pm : Religious Perspectives
Kenneth Seeskin, Northwestern University : “Why Religion Needs Community and the Price it Pays to Get it.”
Michelle Molina, Northwestern University : “God in All Things : Jesuit transatlantic community in the late 18th century.”
Makram Abbès, ENS de Lyon : “Individu vs communauté et religion naturelle vs religion positive dans le Conte du philosophe autodidacte d’Ibn Tufayl.”
Friday, 4.30—6pm : A New Image of Thought ?
Scott Durham, Northwestern University, “‘Uneespèce de tendresse pour l’herbe’ : Sensation, Temporality, and the Politics ofCinema in Rancière andDeleuze”.
Emmanuel Renault, ENS de Lyon : “Vie sociale et communaute chez Marx et chez Feuerbach.”