Sources and Resources of Political Life in Early-Modern Europe
University of Helsinki, 16-17 April 2009
Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24 except for the keynote lecture which will be held in the University Main building, lecture hall 13, Fabianinkatu 33
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Provisional Programme
Thursday, 16 April 2009
09:45 -10:15 Coffee
10:15 -10:30 Opening Remarks by the Director of the Helsinki Collegium,
Professor Juha Sihvola
10:30 -12:00 1st Session
* Martin van Gelderen: Rembrandt, Grotius and Judaism: Toleration in
the Dutch Republic
* Virpi Mäkinen: Self-preservation, Individuals and Polity in the Late
Medieval and Early Modern Political Philosophy
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30 -15:00 2nd Session
* Ronald Asch: Reviving the Religion Royale: France and England in
Comparison, c. 1589-1614
* S-J Savonius-Wroth: Friendship and Political Life in Early-Modern
Thought, 1572- 1689
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
16:00 -18:00 Keynote Speaker (University Main Building, lecture hall 13,
Fabianinkatu 33)
* Introduction by Markku Peltonen
* Quentin Skinner: Political Theory and Iconographical Sources: The
Case of Thomas Hobbes
Friday, 17 April 2009
10:15 -10:30 Coffee
10:30 -12:00 1st Session
* Sari Kivistö: Gerog Pasch (1661-1707) on the Idea of ficta
respublica
* Richard Serjeantson: John Milton and "Single Rebellion"
12:00 -13:00 Lunch break
13:00 -14:30 2nd Session
* Mark Goldie: The Making of Lockean Politics
* Mikko Tolonen: Publishing History of the Fable of the Bees and the
Young David Hume
14:30 -14:45 Coffee break
14:45 -16:15 3rd Session
* John Robertson: The Naples of Giannone and Vico, the European
Republic of Letters, and the Possibilities of Sacred History
* Catherine Larrère: Montesquieu and Religion: A Political Issue and a
Civil Right