The Early Modern Philosophy Calendar

This website is maintained by Stephen H. Daniel at Texas A&M University as a service to scholars working in the history of early modern philosophy. It brings together information about calls for papers, event schedules, and contacts about presentations, conferences, and seminars dealing with research in late 16th, 17th, and 18th century philosophy.

To have an event listed, send the appropriate information to Steve Daniel (sdaniel@philosophy.tamu.edu). Events posted on various mailing lists (e.g., philosop, philos, MWSeminar) are incorporated into this page. If no deadline is listed for calls for papers, that means either that the deadline has passed or that presentations were by invitation only.

September 9-10, 2008
Conference on Hume's Treatise
Cambridge University, UK
Venue: Department for the History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/
Speakers:
  Martin Bell, "The Styles of the Treatise"
  Hannah Dawson, "Allegiance, Nature, and Time in Hume's Treatise"
  James Harris, "Hume on Moral Obligation and Justice"
  P J E Kail, "Naturalism in the Treatise"
  Catherine Kemp, "Experience as a Cause in Hume"
  Emilio Mazza, "The 'Abstruse' Hume: Treatise Time"
  Anik Waldow, "Sympathy's Belief-Grounding Function"
  John P. Wright, "Hume's Rejection of Hutcheson's Theory of Moral Sense in Book 3"
  Helen Beebee, "Hume on Necessity and Projection"
  Harold Noonan, "Hume on Personal Identity"
For information about staying in Cambridge, go to http://www.visitcambridge.org/
A £20 registration fee (£10 unwaged or for members of the BSHP) will be charged.
Contact Peter Kail or Marina Frasca-Spada

September 12-14, 2008
Workshop: Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617): Last Medieval or First Early Modern?
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Friday, September 12
  1:00  Opening Remarks: Benjamin Hill (Western Ontario)
  1:30-3:00  Christopher Shields (Oxford), "Suarez's Non-existents: the Role of Entia Rationis in the Science of Being"; comment by Jorge Secada (Virginia)
  3:15-4:45  Roger Ariew (South Florida), "Suárez's Metaphysical Disputations and Early Modern Philosophy"; comment by Jeff McDonough (Harvard)
Saturday, September 13
  9:00-10:30  Dennis Des Chene (Washington U, St. Louis), "The Character of the Efficient Cause in Suárez"; comment by Helen Hattab (Houston)
  10:45-12:15  Cees Leijenhorst & Paul Bakker (Radboud U, Nijmegen), "Suárez on Self-Awareness and the Mind-Body Relation"; comment by Kara Richardson (Syracuse)
  1:45-3:15  James Gordley (U California Berkeley), "Suárez and the Natural Law"; comment by Sydney Penner (Cornell)
  3:30-5:00  Thomas Pink (King's College London), "Reason and Obligation in Suárez"; comment by Stephen Darwall (Yale)
Sunday, September 14
  9:00-10:30  James South (Marquette), "Suárez and Hylomorphism"; comment by Erik Akerlund (Uppsala)
  10:45-12:15  Marleen Rozemond (Toronto), "Suárez and the Unity of Consciousness"; comment by Alison Simmons (Harvard)
  12:30  Closing Remarks: Henrik Lagerlund (Western Ontario)

Website: http://publish.uwo.ca/~bhill28/suarez/
Contacts: Benjamin Hill, Henrik Lagerlund, or Dennis Klimchuk.

September 26-28, 2008
Leiden-Duke Early Modern Philosophy Workshop on Funky Causation
Leiden University, Netherlands
Friday, September 26
  9:00-10:15  Yitzhak Melamed (Chicago), "Spinoza on Inherence-Causation-Conceivability"
  10:30-11:45  Noa Shein (Haifa), "Causation as Determination and the Infinite Series of Finite Causes in Spinoza"
  13:30-14:45  Karolina Huebner (Chicago) "On Formal Cause in Spinoza"
  15:05-16:20  Amanda Parris (De Paul) "Naturalizing the Man-Faced Ox-Progeny: A Reflection on Immanent Causation in the Philosophy of Spinoza"
  16:40-18:00  Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus Rotterdam), "Causality in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus"
Saturday, September 27
  9:00-10:15  Tad Schmaltz (Duke), "Substantial Forms as Causes: From Suárez to Descartes"
  10:30-11:45  Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College), "Eminent Causality in Descartes and Newton"
  13:30-14:45  Andrew Janiak (Duke), "Causation and Emanation in Newton's Thought"
  15:05-16:20  John Whipple (University of Illinois at Chicago), "Leibnizian Emanation"
  16:40-18:00  Michael Della Rocca (Yale), "Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza"

To attend the workshop, please rsvp to Eric Schliesser no later than September 1, 2008.

In addition, workshop participants may wish to attend Michael Della Rocca's Zeno lecture (sponsored by the departments of philosophy at Leiden University and Utrecht University), "Exploring Explanation and the Commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason," on Thursday-afternoon, September 25.

September 26-28, 2008
Second Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
Marx Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Friday, September 26
  3:45-5:00  Anja Jauering (Notre Dame), "A Last Shot at Leibniz’s Doctrine of the Reality and Reducibility of Relations"
  5:15-6:30  Stephen Puryear (North Carolina State), "Leibniz on the Relativity and Phenomenality of Motion: 1677-1695"
Saturday, September 27
  9:00-10:15  François Duchesneau (Montréal), "Leibniz on Machines of Nature from a Physiological Viewpoint"
  10:30-11:45  Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan), "Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines, or What It Means ‘to remain in the least of its parts’"
  12:00-1:15  Justin Smith (Concordia), "A Role for Physiology in the Development of Leibniz’s Mature Metaphysics?"
  2:15-3:30  Christian Leduc (Princeton), "Leibniz and Nominal Definition"
  3:45-5:00  Evelyn Vargas (La Plata), "Leibniz’s Two Definitions of Perception"
  5:15-6:45  Book Symposium on Glenn Hartz's Leibniz's Final System and Pauline Phemister's Leibniz and the Natural World
     Catherine Wilson (Graduate Center, CUNY)
     Glenn Hartz (Ohio State)
     Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh)
Sunday, September 28
  9:00-10:15  Sukjae Lee (Ohio State), Title to be announced
  10:30-11:45  Jeff McDonough (Harvard), "Leibniz and the Puzzle of Incompossibility: The Packing Strategy"
  12:00-1:15  Mark Kulstad (Rice), "Leibniz and the Denunciation of the 17th Century ‘Axis of Evil’"

Accommodations: Hyatt Hotel, 102 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ, 609-987-1234; book by Sept. 4 for conference rate. Shuttle service from hotel to Princeton University campus will be provided.
Contacts: Dan Garber or Martha Bolton.

September 26-28, 2008
Meeting of the Spinoza-Gesellschaft
Theme: "The Naturalness of Human Beings and the World"
Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

Friday, Sept. 26, Hörsaal H, Wilhelm-Roepke-Str. 6
  14:00-14.15 Welcome
  14.15-15:45 Dieter Birnbacher (Düsseldorf), "Mensch und Natur: eine spinozistische Sicht"
  16:15-17:45 Petra Gehring (Darmstadt), "Leben und Macht: Naturalismus um 1900"
  17:45-19:15 Lutz Wingert (ETH Zürich), "Genealogie der Normativität"
  19:30-20:15 General membership meeting

Saturday, Sept. 27, Hörsaal H, Wilhelm-Roepke-Str. 6
  8.30-10:00 Ursula Renz (ETH Zürich), "Spinozas Erkenntnistheorie:(k)eine naturalisierte Epistemologie?"
  10:00-11:30 Alan Gabbey (Columbia Univ), "A Distinction without a difference: The Natural and the Artificial in Spinoza"
  12:00-13:30 Winfried Schröder (Marburg), "Deus sive Natura: Über Spinozas sogenannten 'Pantheismus'"
  15:00-18:00 Concurrent Sessions:

Sunday, Sept. 28, Hörsaal H, Wilhelm-Roepke-Str. 6
  8.30-10:00 Han van Ruler (Rotterdam), "Spinoza’s double dualism"
  10:00-11:30 Andrea Esser (Marburg), "Natürlichkeit und Freiheit in der Ethik. Kantische Überlegungen zu einer Vermittlung einer vermeintlichen Opposition--und ein Blick auf Spinoza"
  12:00-13:30 Barbara Merker (Frankfurt), "Natur und Norm"

http://www.spinoza-gesellschaft.de/10_tagung_programm.html.
Contact: Karim Bschir.

October 3, 2008
Conference on Damaris Cudworth Masham (1658-1708) and Her Philosophical Context
British Society for the History of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy, University of London
Institute of Philosophy, Senate House, London
Lady Damaris Masham was one of the first English women philosophers. She was the author of two works on moral philosophy and a biography of John Locke. Daughter of Cudworth, close friend of Locke, and correspondent of Leibniz, she has only recently begun to be given consideration as a philosopher in her own right. To mark the 350th anniversary of her birth (and 300th of her death), the conference will highlight the new work on her philosophy and its context.
http://www.bshp.org.uk/, forthcoming conferences.
For further information, contact Sarah Hutton, Aberystwyth University

October 4, 2008
"Themes in Descartes": Annual Austin J. Fagothey Conference
Santa Clara University, Arts and Science Building, Wiegand Room
Santa Clara, California
  8:15  Registration and Continental Breakfast
  9:00  John Carriero (UCLA): “Skepticism and Sensation in the Meditations: What Skeptical Doubt Does (and Does Not) Show about the Senses”
    Chair: Michael Sudduth (San Francisco State)
  10:30  Marleen Rozemond (Toronto): “Descartes and the Simplicity of the Soul"
    Chair: Joseph Westfall (Houston/Downtown)
  1:00  Alan Nelson (North Carolina/Chapel Hill): “The Unity of Cartesian Knowledge”
    Chair: Kate Moran (Brandeis)
  2:15  Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser): “How We Experience the World: Descartes and Spinoza on Passionate Perception”
    Chair: Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard)
  3:45  Daniel Garber (Princeton): “Descartes against the Materialists”
    Chair: Matthew Zwolinski (U San Diego)

Registration (includes lunch): SCU students, faculty, and staff free; others: $30, students $10.
Space is limited; register early by contacting Elizabeth Radcliffe, 408-554-4093.

October 16-17, 2008
Colloquium: Spinoza and Hume on Religion
On the occasion of the retirement of Professor Herman De Dijn
Leuven, Belgium
Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
Theme: the philosophy of religion of Benedict Spinoza and David Hume, and the relevance of their views for our understanding of religion today.
Speakers:
  Peter Kail (Oxford, UK)
  Patricia De Martelaere (Katholieke U Leuven, Belgium)
  Willem Lemmens (U Antwerp, Belgium)
  John Cottingham (Reading, UK)
  Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus U Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  J. Thomas Cook (Rollins C, Florida, US)
  Paul Juffermans (HOVO, Netherlands)
  Arnold Burms (Katholieke U Leuven, Belgium)
Lectures are free, but please register at the colloquium website before Oct. 1. For more information, contact Ms. Veerle Achten, tel. (+32)(0)16 323787.

October 17-18, 2008
International Symposium: The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.helsinki.fi/historia/1700/en/dokum/enlightenment.htm
Deadline for abstracts: May 31

October 17-19, 2008
Pacific Northwest/Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Keynote Colloquium: Friday October 17 at SFU Burnaby: "Hume on Skepticism with Regard to the Senses," David Owen (Arizona) and Donald Ainslie (Toronto) on the Treatise on Human Nature 1.4.2
Seminar papers: October 18-19 at SFU Vancouver (Downtown at Harbour Centre)
As with other Seminars in Early Modern Philosophy, papers on any subject in early modern philosophy (roughly, the period from Montaigne to Kant) are welcome. We particularly encourage papers which suggest new or less frequently discussed topics, themes, and critical approaches to the history of modern philosophy, discuss and familiarize the group with new texts, or deploy an interdisciplinary approach.
Submit abstracts (no more than 600 words) no later than July 20 to Lisa Shapiro. Abstracts (submitted electronically by attachment in MS Word or pdf format) should not contain identifying information; such information should appear instead on a separate cover page. Hardcopy submissions should be sent to Lisa Shapiro, Philosophy Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

October 18-19, 2008
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Oxford, UK
Abstracts for papers on any topic in early modern philosophy (roughly, the period from Bacon to Kant) are invited.
Submit abstracts (2 pages) no later than August 1 to Paul Lodge

October 22-24, 2008
“Pierre Bayle: critique et historien de la philosophie” [The first conference in the Americas devoted entirely to Pierre Bayle]
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
With the support of the École pratique des hautes études (Paris) and the Università del Piemonte (Italy)
  Hubert Bost (EPHE, Paris): "Bayle propose-t-il une histoire de la philosophie?"
  Marilena de Sousa Chauí (USP, São Paulo): "A estrutura jurídico-retórica do verbete Spinoza"
  Jean-Luc Solère (Boston College): "La causalité mécanique dans le Dictionnaire historique et critique"
  José Raimundo Maia Neto (UFMG, Belo Horizonte): "Seria Huet o modelo do abade filosófico da nota B do artigo Pirro?"
  Jean-Robert Armogathe (EPHE, Paris): "Bayle et le cartésianisme: l’Avis au lecteur du Recueil de diverses pièces curieuses"
  Plinio Smith (USJT, São Paulo): "Bayle crítico da nova filosofia"
  Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte, Vercelli): "Bayle et le statut de l'athéisme sceptique"
  Antonio Carlos Dos Santos (UFSE, Aracaju): "Pierre Bayle: ateísmo e tolerância"
  Todd Ryan (Trinity College, Hartford, CT): "Liberté, déterminisme et fatum: Bayle et les stoïciens"
  Fernando Bahr (CONICET, Buenos Aires): "Bayle et l’éthique épicurienne"
  Renato Lessa (IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro): "Pierre Bayle: ceticismo, crença e configuração do mundo humano"
  Kristen Irwin (U California, San Diego): "La philosophie comme méthodologie: la conception sceptico-rationaliste de la raison chez Bayle"
  José Ricardo Sousa Rodrigues (UFMG, Belo Horizonte): "Tolerância: esforço de construção de um conceito filosófico por Pierre Bayle"

For information, contact posfil@fafich.ufing.br, phone 55-31-3409-5036.

October 23-25, 2008
Early Modern Philosophy Conference: 10th South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Oct. 23
  5:00 Martha Bolton (Rutgers): "The Psychological Ground of Substantial Unity in Leibniz's Metaphysics"
Oct. 24
  9:00 Paul Hoffman (UC Riverside): "Descartes and Aquinas on Per Se Subsistence and the Union of Soul and Body"
  10:30 Michael LeBuffe (Texas A&M): "Spinozistic Perfectionism"
  2:00 Alan Nelson (North Carolina): "Amphibologicism and the Theory of Ideas" [on the sense-intellect continuum among the moderns]
  3:30 Don Rutherford (UC San Diego): "Hobbes and Epicureanism"
  5:00 Susan James (Birkbeck College, U London): "Spinoza on Right and Power"
Oct. 25
  9:00 Stephen Daniel (Texas A&M): "The Linguistic Character of Mind in Berkeley"
  10:30 Steven Nadler (Wisconsin): "Malebranche's Shadow: Divine Providence in the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence"
  2:00 Christia Mercer (Columbia): "Methodology and Mind in the Seventeenth Century"
  3:30 John Carriero (UCLA): "Spinoza on Salvation and Beatitude"
  5:00 Don Garrett (NYU): "Hume's Causal Sense and the Metaphysics of Causation"

http://philosophy.tamu.edu/%7Esdaniel/seminar08.html
Contact: Steve Daniel about accommodations and travel.

October 25-26, 2008
Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society
University of California, Irvine, California

Call for papers (less than 25 pages) on any topic in Kantian Studies, including contemporary "Kantian" approaches to philosophical problems and discussion of Kant's immediate predecessors, contemporaries, and successors such as the German Idealists. The best paper submitted by a graduate student will be awarded a stipend of $100 to offset expenses for the conference. Graduate students who would like to be considered for this stipend should specify their status as a graduate student in the cover letter/e-mail accompanying their submission. The winning essay is eligible for the Annual Markus Herz Award for the best paper by a graduate student read at any of the regional NAKS study group meetings.
The invited speaker will be Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University).
Send papers (in Word, pdf, or rtf) to Eric Watkins by July 1. Papers may not be submitted to both the Pacific Study Group and another Study Group in the same year.

November 1-2, 2008
Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Papers on any subject in early modern philosophy (roughly, the period from Descartes to Kant) are welcome.
Submit abstracts (1-3 pages) no later than Sept. 12 to Ursula Goldenbaum. Details on the program and arrangements for accommodations will be available in early October.

November 7-9, 2008
Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Papers on any subject in early modern philosophy by graduate students and post-graduates are welcome.
Invited speakers: Thomas Lennon (Western Ontario), Julie Walsh (Western Ontario), and Ed McCann (Southern California).
Submit abstracts (500-750 words, .doc or .rtf format) no later than Sept. 5 to Timothy Crockett. Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged within three days. The program will be announced at the end of September.
http://midwestseminar2008.googlepages.com/home

November 8-9, 2008
NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: Skepticism
Presentations include Gianni Paganini (Piemonte Orientale) on Descartes, Peter Millican (Oxford) on Hume, and Jonathan Vogel (Amherst) on Kant.
http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/philo.newsevents.modernconference2008.html
Contact: philo.modernconference@nyu.edu

December 27-30, 2008
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division
Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Various sessions and meetings of groups (e.g., Hume Society, International Berkeley Society, North American Kant Society, North American Spinoza Society)
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/divisions/eastern/index.html
Deadline for submissions was February 15, 2008.

December 29, 2008
International Berkeley Association Session, APA Eastern Meeting
Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
"Authors Meet Critics: Recent Books on Berkeley"
11:15 Talia Bettcher’s Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Daniel Flage (James Madison U); Talia Bettcher (California State, Los Angeles)
12:15 John Roberts’ A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley: Walter Ott (Virginia Tech); John Roberts (Florida State)
For more information, contact the session chair Margaret Atherton.

December 29, 2008
Leibniz Society of North America Session, APA Eastern Meeting
Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Speaker: Alan Nelson (North Carolina): "Monadology and the Cogito"
Commentator: Timothy Crockett (Marquette)
For more information, contact the session chair Nicholas Jolley.

January 6-8, 2009
The Philosophy of Adam Smith: A Conference to Mark the 250th Anniversary of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Balliol College, Oxford
This conference, to be held at the college Smith himself attended from 1740-46, and at the beginning of the year marking the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, will provide an opportunity to re-evaluate the significance of Smith's moral philosophy and moral psychology, the relationship between them and his other writings on economics, politics, jurisprudence, history, and rhetoric and belles lettres, and the relevance of his thought to current research in these areas. Plenary speakers will include: Steven Darwall (Michigan), Charles Griswold (Boston), Knud Haakonssen (Sussex), David Raphael (Imperial), Emma Rothschild (King's College, Cambridge), Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (North Carolina).
http://www.adamsmithreview.org/conference.html
Contact: Sam Fleischacker

February 12-15, 2009
International Conference on Leibniz and Empirical Sciences
Liceo de Taoro, La Orotava
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Leibniz is well-known for both his mathematical accomplishments and for his work in metaphysics and the theory of knowledge. However, it is less well-known that Leibniz was an active participant in the empirical sciences of his day. Leibniz was interested in mathematical physics, the laws governing motion, and cosmology and astronomy--sciences that involve a combination of empirical research and mathematical and rational considerations. He was also interested in more purely empirical investigations of the world. His Protogaea, though first published in 1749, many years after his death, was an important and influential statement about the formation and evolution of the earth, as well as the interpretation of fossils. Leibniz's views on the composition of living things and their functions, particularly reproduction, were novel and important. Leibniz also extended his researches into medicine, alchemy, natural history, mechanics, engineering, and other areas of empirical inquiry. Now that these works are in the process of being edited and published, we can begin to get a sense of this side of Leibniz's universal genius. Studying them will illuminate both Leibniz's larger world view and the scientific world of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

The congress will consist of lectures and contributed papers. There will be 18 lectures of 40 minutes and 8 contributed talks of 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference will be Spanish, English, French, German and Latin. The academic sessions will take place on the 12th, 13th, and 14th; on Sunday the 15th, there will be a scientific-cultural excursion to the Teide National Park.

Those who would like to be considered for the program should send an abstract of roughly one page to the attention of Carlos Martín at the Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia no later than September 20, 2008. Those accepted will be informed by early October 2008. Fundación Orotava offers three days of free accommodation, including meals, to the authors of admitted contributed talks (February 12th-14th).

Confirmed speakers include: Daniel Garber (Princeton), Michel Fichant (París IV), Eberhard Knobloch (Technische Universität Berlin), François Duchesneau (Montréal), Mark Kulstad (Rice, Houston), Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana), Juan Arana (Sevilla), Juan Nicolás (Granada), Evaristo Álvarez (Oviedo), Simone Rieger (Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Hans Poser (Technische Universität Berlin), Friedrich Hulsmann (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover), Justin Smith (Concordia, Montréal), Anne Lise Rey (MCF Lille I/UMR STL, France), Catherine Wilson (Graduate Center, City U New York), Roger Ariew (South Florida).

February 18-21, 2009
American Philosophical Association, Central Division
Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL
Includes various sessions and meetings of groups (e.g., Hume Society, International Berkeley Society, North American Kant Society)
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/divisions/central/index.html
Deadline for paper submissions: June 1, 2008

February 19, 2009
International Berkeley Association Session, APA Central Meeting
Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL
Call for papers: papers on any aspect of Berkeley's philosophy (no more than 12 pages long) are invited.
Send papers as an email attachment to Margaret Atherton no later than August 22, 2008.

February 28-March 1, 2009
Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Following the model of similar seminars around the U.S. and Canada, the Southwest Seminar fosters interaction among scholars who work on various topics in the history of early modern philosophy (a period ranging, roughly, from Montaigne to Kant).
Abstracts (less than 750 words) should be sent to Mary Domski no later than November 1.
http://www.unm.edu/~mdomski/swseminar09.html
Contacts: Gideon Manning (local organizer), Donald Rutherford, or Mary Domski.

March 13-15, 2009
Rousseau and Revolution
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
International conference on Rousseau's ideas on revolution, his support of insurrection in Poland and Corsica, references to Rousseau by other revolutionaries (e.g., Robespierre, Lenin), understanding modern revolutions and rebellions in Rousseau's terms, the counter-revolutionary understanding of Rousseau, and the use of Rousseau regarding the connection between revolution and terror.
Call for papers: abstracts (maximum 200 words) should be sent to Holger Ross Lauritsen no later than December 1. Include email address and institutional affiliation. Paper presentations will be 30 minutes. Papers will subsequently be invited for publication in a forthcoming anthology.
Deadline for (free) registration is February 1, 2009.
Keynote speakers: James Swenson (Rutgers) and Blaise Bachofen (Cergy-Pontoise).
http://www.rousseauassociation.org/conferences/Rousseau%20And%20Revolution.htm

Information about the University of Aarhus and hotels can be found at http://www.au.dk/en/aarhus.htm. Contacts: Holger Ross Lauritsen and Mikkel Thorup.

March 31-April 2, 2009
Smith in Glasgow
University of Glasgow, Scotland
This conference marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The conference will be organized along four themes: Smith, Scotland and the Enlightenment; Smith and Culture, Literature and the Arts; Smith and Philosophy; and Smith and the Social Sciences.
Featured speakers: Nick Phillipson (Edinburgh), James Chandler (Chicago), Tom Campbell (Australian National), Andrew Skinner (Glasgow)
Contact: Chris Berry

April 8-11, 2009
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division
Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, BC
Includes various sessions and meetings of groups (e.g., Hume Society, International Hobbes Association, North American Kant Society, North American Spinoza Society)
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/divisions/pacific/index.html
Deadline for paper submissions: September 1, 2008

May 21-23, 2009
Conference on Kant in Asia: The Unity of Human Personhood
Hong Kong
The main objective of this conference will be to encourage in depth interaction between Asian and Western interpreters of Kant.
Contacts: Sorin Baiasu or Stephen Palmquist

May 28-30, 2009
Conference: The Moon in the 17th Century
Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Château de Versailles, France
A conference devoted to scientific study of the Moon (e.g., celestial mechanics, cosmology, optics, the study of light, physics, geometry, mathematics, by Kepler, Gilbert, Maestlin, Harriot, Langrenus, Hevelius, Riccioli, Cassini) and the philosophical and literary reflections it generated (e.g., by Godwin, Wilkins, Fontenelle).

http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article23915.php

Contact Chantal GRELL, ESR (Etat, Societé, Religion research center), University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines

August 17-20, 2009
International Berkeley Conference: 300th Anniversary of the publication of An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Details are currently being finalized.
Contacts: Bertil Belfrage and Wolfgang Breidert

March 21-26, 2010
Reid in His Time and Ours
University of Aberdeen (March 21-23), University of Glasgow (March 24-26)
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/reid2010.shtml
In March 2010 a week-long event in recognition of Thomas Reid will be held at the two universities where he taught: the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow. The conference will be devoted to all aspects of Reid's work and its context. Plenary speakers include James Harris (St Andrews), Laurent Jaffro (Blaise Pascal), Paul Wood (Victoria, BC), and Gideon Yaffe (Southern California).
Contacts: Cairns Craig in Aberdeen and Alexander Broadie in Glasgow.

April 6-10, 2010
International Berkeley Conference: 300th Anniversary of the publication of The Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
A call for papers is forthcoming.
Contact: Richard Glauser