History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights, ca. 1640–1848

Part 1 • Diverse Subjects: Entities/Affects/Rights

a conference on

November 2–3, 2001

at the Clark Library

arranged by
Kirstie M. McClure, UCLA

with the collaboration, for Winter 2002, of

J. G. A. Pocock, Johns Hopkins University, Center & Clark Visiting Professor

This opening conference will take up matters either oblique or proximate to “the subject of rights,” conventionally understood as an abstract, autonomous, rational individual. On the one hand, we will consider historical evocations of such entities as humanity, families, crowds, sexes, races, or perhaps nations or peoples as subjects of rights. On the other hand, we’ll engage such things as uneasiness or anxiety, emotions or passions, fear or envy, as aspects of affectivity pertinent to rights-talk in various early modern discussions.

** Papers for this conference will be posted below, as they are received. Papers will be available on this page from approximately October 19 - November 16, 2001. After November 16, papers will only be available in hard copy form (please inquire at our office; see contact information below).

 

Conference Program

Friday, November 2

9:30 a.m. • coffee

10:00 a.m. • session 1

Kirstie M. McClure, UCLA

Introductory Remarks

Anthony Pagden, Johns Hopkins University

Natural Rights, Human Rights, and European Imperialism

Mary Bellhouse, Providence College

Black Masculinity/White Art: Fear, Desire, and Race Formation in Early Modern France

12:30 p.m. • lunch

2:00 p.m. • session 2

Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley

Passion, Aesthetics, and Natural Right in Hobbes’ Leviathan

Kinch Hoekstra, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

The Subject of Rights in Hobbes’ State of Nature

4:30 p.m. • reception

Saturday, November 3

9:30 a.m. • coffee

10:00 a.m. • session 3

William M. Reddy, Duke University

Rights and the Heterogeneous Self

Jason A. Frank, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies

Mimesis and the Mob: Sympathy and Public Space in Post-Revolutionary America

12:00 noon • lunch

1:30 p.m. • session 4

Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Rutgers University

Uneasiness

Corey Robin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Hamlet on the Hudson: Tocqueville’s Theory of Anxiety

Registration Information

Registration deadline:    October 19, 2001 Please note that space is limited and registration closes when capacity is reached.
To register, please fill out the form below and mail it to the Center address.


Registration fees:         UC Faculty & staff: $15; students: free of charge; others: $25

Fees cover advance copies of papers, lunches and other refreshments.

 

Address all inquiries to the Center:

Phone: 310-206-8552
E-mail: c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu
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Registration Form
Diverse Subjects: Entities/Affects/Rights
Registration deadline:     October 19, 2001
            Please note that space is limited and registration closes when capacity is reached.
Registration Fees:            UC Faculty & staff: $15; students: free of charge; others: $25 Fees cover advance copies of papers, lunches and other refreshments.


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