The Intellectual Lives of Hugo Grotius Texts, Contexts and Controversies across the Disciplines
Organizers : Russ Leo (Princeton University) and Mogens Lærke (CNRS, IHRIM, ENS de Lyon)
The conference will be held in two locations : East Pyne 105 (Friday 4 May) and Wallace 300 (Saturday 5 May and Sunday 6 May). Seats are limited so please rsvp to rleo princeton.edu
This conference is sponsored by the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council ; the University Center for Human Values ; the Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies ; the Center for Collaborative History ; the English Department ; the Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (CNRS, UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon) ; the Labex Comod (Université de Lyon).
SCHEDULE :
FRIDAY 4 MAY // EAST PYNE 105
Welcome
11.30-12.00 Russ Leo and Mogens Lærke
Session I. Chair : Sarah Rivett (Princeton)
12.00-12.45 Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Grotius and Menasseh ben Israel”
12.45-13.30 Feisal Mohamed (CUNY Graduate Center), “Grotius and Hobbes Reconsidered”
13.30-14.00 Break/ Lunch
Session II. Chair : Yaacob Dweck (Princeton)
14.00-14.45 Henk Nellen (Rotterdam), “Hugo Grotius’ Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State”
14.45-15.30 Sarah Mortimer (Oxford), “Hugo Grotius and the Purpose of Politics”
15.30-16.00 Break
Session III. Chair : Rhodri Lewis (Princeton)
16.00-16.45 Eric Nelson (Harvard), “Grotius on Representation : The Missing Theory”
16.45-17.30 Julie Saada (Sciences Po, Paris), “Reinventing Grotius : Political modernity, Liberal Internationalism, and the Grotian tradition”
SATURDAY 5 MAY // WALLACE 300
8:45-9.15 Coffee
Session IV. Chair : Russ Leo
9.15-10.00 Nigel Smith (Princeton), “The Literary Grotius”
10.00-10.45 Jan Bloemendal (Huygens ING), “Grotius’ Three Tragedies and the Good or Bad Ruler”
10:45-11.00 Break
Session V. Chair : Rhodri Lewis (Princeton)
11.00-11.45 Jane Raisch (York), “Irenic Materiality : Grotius, Laud, and Greek Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Oxford”
11.45-12.15 Frédéric Gabriel (CNRS, IHRIM, ENS de Lyon), “Henoticis scriptis : Ecclesiological Irenicism in Grotius.”
12.15-14.00 Lunch
Session VI. Chair : Sophie Gee (Princeton)
14.00-14.45 Freya Sierhuis (York), “Grotius on Christ”
14.45-15.30 Timothy Harrison (Chicago), “Life Without Death : Grotius and Milton on Edenic Self-Preservation”
15.30-16.00 Break
Session VII. Chair : Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton)
16.00-16.45 Mary Nyquist (Toronto), “Beasts, Barbarians, and Rights”
16.45-17.30 Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University), “Grotius and Marriage Thinking : Jurisdiction, Cruelty and Equity”
SUNDAY 6 MAY // WALLACE 300
9-9.30 Coffee
Session VIII. Chair : Julie Klein (Villanova)
9.30-10.15 Mogens Lærke (CNRS, IHRIM, ENS de Lyon), “Grotius on Clerical Counsel and Declarative Rule”
10.15-11.00 Michael Rosenthal (University of Washington), “The Role of Free Will in Grotius’ Erastian Theory of Toleration”
11.00-11.15 Break
Session IX. Chair : Nigel Smith (Princeton)
11.15-12.00 Jan Waszink (Leiden), “Hugo Grotius as Historian”
Thanks and Concluding Remarks
12.00-12.30 Russ Leo and Mogens Lærke
