Thursday 28 June 2012
10.00-10.15 Opening remarks: Russell Goulbourne and David Higgins (University of Leeds)
10.15-11.30 Plenary 1
Gregory Dart (University College London), ‘Rousseau and the Romantic Essayists’
11.30-11.45 Tea/coffee
11.45-1.00 Session 1: Language and Translation
Lieve Jooken and Guy Rooryck (University of Ghent), ‘Britain Discovers Rousseau: The First Discours Translated’
Ashley Sandlin (Auburn University), ‘Reconfigurations of Gender Roles in Charles Burney’s Translation of Rousseau’s Le Devin du village‘
James Smith (University of Manchester), ‘Scribbling: Warburton-Derrida-Rousseau’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.45 Session 2: Memory, Romanticism and Modernism
Rowan Boyson (King’s College, Cambridge), ‘Feeling Agreeable: Gentle Pleasure from de Pouilly to Rousseau and British Romanticism’
Zoe Beenstock (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘Romantic Form and Rousseau: Critiquing Du Contrat social in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein‘
David Dwan (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Rousseau and Modernism’
3.45-4.00 Tea/coffee
4.00-5.15 Session 3: Rousseau and the Novel
James Fowler (University of Kent), ‘La Nouvelle Héloïse: Rousseau’s “Richardsonian” Novel?’
Pascal Fischer (University of Würzburg), ‘”Not the Converts of Rousseau”: Educational Theory in Conservative English Novels c. 1800′
Helen Stark (Newcastle University), ‘Libertarian Masculinity in Rousseau’s Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse and Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage‘
5.15-6.30 A visit to Special Collections (Brotherton Library) and drinks
Friday 29 June 2012
9.30-10.45 Plenary 2
Robert Mankin (Université Paris-Diderot), ‘Did Gibbon Need Rousseau?’
10.45-11.00 Tea/coffee
11.00-12.45 Session 4: Nature, Culture, Politics
Miryam Giargia (University of Milan), ‘Rousseau and English Republicanism’
Joseph Pappin III (University of South Carolina), ‘Burke and Rousseau on the State of Nature and the Social Contract: Freedom and Authority’
Heather Williams (University of Wales), ‘”Le pays de Galles ressemble entièrement à la Suisse”: Rousseau and Wales’
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Session 5: Rousseau and P. B. Shelley
Rebecca Nesvet (University of North Carolina), ‘Writing Back to Rousseau: Shelley’s Critique of the Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles‘
Thomas Roche (University of California, Santa Barbara), ‘Percy Shelley and Rousseau’s “pays des chimères”‘
3.15-3.30 Tea/coffee
3.30-4.45 Plenary 3
John T. Scott (University of California, Davis), ‘Rousseau Between Locke and Shaftesbury’
4.45-5.00 Concluding remarks: Russell Goulbourne and David Higgins
