The Godwinian Moment: Revolutionary Revisions of Enlightenment

A conference at the Clark Library organized by Robert Maniquis, UCLA and Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University

Friday, May 4
9:30 A.M.	Morning Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Welcoming Remarks Peter H. Reill, UCLA Moderator: Frederick Burwick, UCLA Gary Handwerk, University of Washington “Awakening the Mind”: William Godwin on Education Robert Anderson, Oakland University Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library
12:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Moderator: Donald G. Marshall, Pepperdine University Timothy Webb, University of Bristol “Assassins of Truth”: William Godwin and the Temptations of Legal Oratory Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University History and Oratory: Godwin’s Biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
4:30 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, May 5
9:30 A.M	Morning Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Moderator: Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario The Disfiguring of Enlightenment: War, Trauma and the Historical Novel in Godwin’s Mandeville Kenneth W. Graham, University of Guelph Reviewing and Ideological Change: Two Moments in the Godwin- Malthus Contention
12:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Moderator: Anne Mellor, UCLA Julie A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Heavy Drama Robert Maniquis, UCLA Grand Incongruities: Godwin, Calvinism, and the Phantom Self