Rousseau and the Great Thinkers

9:15
Helena Rosenblatt (Graduate Center, CUNY) Welcome

9:30-11:00
Maurizio Viroli (Princeton), Rousseau and Machiavelli
James Miller (New School), Rousseau and Montaigne
Richard Tuck (Harvard), Rousseau and Hobbes

11:15-12:30
Bryan Garsten (Yale), Rousseau and Rameau
David Sorkin (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Rousseau and Mendelssohn

1:30-2:45
Anthony LaVopa (North Carolina State University), Rousseau and A.L. Thomas
Barbara Taylor (University of East London), Rousseau and Wollstonecraft

3:00-4:15
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study), Rousseau and the philosophes
Benjamin Barber (CivWorld), Rousseau and Burke

4:30-5:45
Jerrold Seigel (NYU), Rousseau and Marx
David Bates (Berkeley), Rousseau and Schmitt

Sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland, Vacheron Constantin, and the Ph.D. Program in History

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