February 22-23, 2002
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
The American and French Revolutions of the eighteenth century put universal rights and modern constitutionalism on the mattering map of political modernity. And yet, neither customary practices nor more recent patterns of social engagement or encounter, nor even aspects of ancient constitutionalist alternatives disappeared from that topography. In colonial arenas in particular, but also in the domestic politics of various European states, regional or non-national particularities, hierarchies, and hybridities both challenged and inflected the elaboration of the rights of citizens in practice. Attuned to such diverse contexts, this conference will explore the social partitions and remainders roiling in the wake of modern constitutionalism.
Friday, February 22
9:30 a.m. • coffee
10:00 a.m. • session 1
Kirstie M. McClure, UCLA
Introductory Remarks
Vicki Hsueh, Johns Hopkins University
Giving Orders: Theory and Practice in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
Catherine Holland, University of Missouri
Confessional Citizenship: Universalism and The Federalist
12:30 p.m. • lunch
2:00 p.m. • session 2
James Swenson, Rutgers University
Saint-Just’s Revolutionary Institutions
Daniel O’Neill, UCLA
Premature Constitution: Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution
4:00 p.m. • reception
Saturday, February 23
9:30 a.m. • coffee
10:00 a.m. • session 3
Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
Bound by Recognition: The Sovereign State and Jewish Emancipation in Hegel and History
Sankar Muthu, The New School University
Crossing Borders in the Age of Enlightenment: On the Global Right of Commerce and Communication
12:00 noon • lunch
1:30 p.m. • session 4
Jennifer Pitts, Yale University
Empire, Rights, and Democratic Exclusions in Condorcet and Tocqueville
Concluding discussion
Registration Information
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