The Enlightenment: Ethical Legacies for the 21st Century
A Conference at Yale University
Saturday and Sunday, December 11 - 12, 1999
Co-Sponsored by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, and
the
Yale Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, with the aid of the
Robert
and Louise Olmsted Fund.
Conference Schedule
Saturday, December 11
9:00 Registration
9:30 - 10:30 The Enlightenment in Historical Context
Joyce Appleby, UCLA
Bernard Yack, University of Wisconsin at Madison
10:45 - 12:15 Reasonable Creatures:
Gender Politics in an Enlightened Age
David Bromwich, Yale University
Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota
Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
1:30 - 3:00 Crime and Punishment
Akhil Amar, Yale University
David Cole, Georgetown University
Thomas Dumm, Amherst College
Susan Shell, Boston College
3:30 - 5:00 Economy and Polity:
Ethics of the Market
Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University
Amy Gutmann, Princeton University
Francis Fox Piven, CUNY
David Schmidtz, University of Arizona
Sunday, December 12
9:30 - 11:00 Perpetual Peace:
International Politics in a Global Age
Richard Falk, Princeton University
George Kateb, Princeton University
Pratap Mehta, Harvard University
Sankar Muthu, New School for Social Research
11:30 - 1:00 Contemporary Legacies of the Enlightenment
Marshall Berman, CUNY
John Patrick Diggins, CUNY
Paul Gilroy, Yale University
Ann Norton, University of Pennsylvania
All sessions will be held in Luce Hall, 34 Prospect Avenue, on the Yale
campus.
For more information, go to the CSPT website,
http://www.cspt.tulane.edu, or contact
crobin@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
see also Travel Arrangements