A conference sponsored by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought in association with the Canadian Political Science Association to be held in the Palais des Congrès, Quebec City, July 29, 30, 31, 2000.

12:00-1:00 Registration [throughout the conference]

13:00-13:30 Welcome and opening remarks:

    Hon. Marcel Danis,

    Vice-Rector Institutional Relations and Secretary General,

    Concordia University

    Martyn Thompson [Tulane University]

    Chairman, Conference for the Study of Political Thought

Chair: E.J. Hundert [University of British Columbia]

Rebecca Kingston [Saint Francis College], "Montesquieu, Rousseau and the genesis of a modern theory of education for citizenship"

Cecil P. Courtney [Christ’s College, Cambridge], "Montesquieu, Bolingbroke, Hume: laws, history and the English constitution"

Chair: Pamela Jensen [Kenyon College]

Diane Lamoureux [Université Laval], "La distance entre l’homme et le citoyen chez Rousseau"

Bonnie Honig [Northwestern University], "Foundation myths in the writings of Rousseau and Freud"

Chair: Percy Lehning [Erasmus University, Rotterdam]

James Schleifer [College of New Rochelle], "Alexis de Tocqueville on challenges for citizens in a democratic society"

Stephane Dion [Government of Canada], "de Tocqueville et nationalisme"

18:30-19:30 Reception hosted by Conference for the Study of Political Thought

Chair: James Moore [Concordia University]

Knud Haakonssen [Boston University], "Conscience and Natural Law"

Edward Andrew [University of Toronto], "Conscience and the Tradition of Liberal Political Thought"

Chair: M.M. Goldsmith [Victoria University, New Zealand]

Alan Ryan [New College, Oxford], "Thomas Hill Green and the ideal citizen"

John Roberts [Toronto, Canada], "Wilhelm von Humboldt, T.H. Green and Liberal Idealism"

Chair: Anthony Parel [University of Calgary]

Douglas Long [University of Western Ontario], "Conscience, Propriety and Property: a study in conceptual change from Hobbes to C.B. Macpherson"

John Christian Laursen [University of California, Riverside], "George Armstrong Kelly and the Politics of Conscience"

(Joint plenary session with the Canadian Political Science Association)

Chair: Guy Laforest [Université Laval]

Charles Taylor [McGill University]

Iris Young [University of Chicago]

Bhikhu Parekh [University of Hull]

Benjamin Barber [Rutgers University]

Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent [University of Missouri, Saint Louis]

F.L. van Holthoon [University of Groningen], "Der Begriff des Politschen: modernization and political education"

Bernard Crick [Edinburgh], "Elements of Citizenship in Schools"

Chair: Fred Rosen [University of London]

Geraint Parry [University of Manchester], "Political Education in a tradition of civility"

David Kettler [Trent University], "Political Education for a Polity of Dissensus: Karl Mannheim, Albert Salomon and the Legacy of Max Weber"

Chair: Ronald Beiner [University of Toronto]

Timothy Fuller [Colorado College], "Political Education: Oakeshott and after"

Peter Baehr [Memorial University, Saint John’s, Newfoundland], "Hannah Arendt and Political Education"

Chair: Preston King [Lancaster University]

J.G.A. Pocock [Johns Hopkins University], "The Historian and the Political Theorist"

Melvin Richter [City University of New York], "Conceptual History and Political Theory"

17:30-19:00 Colloquium of speakers and chairs with graduate students, followed by reception

19:30 Dinner for conference participants and guests