PROGRAM
Saturday June 1
17:00 Opening
D. G. Drosos
Greeting from Fania Oz-Salzberger (by the Skype)
17:30 1st Session
Chair: Nathaniel Wolloch
18:00 Robert Olwell, “Beware
of Scots bearing Greeks: The New Smyrna colony in British East Florida as an
Enlightenment Tragedy”
18:30 Coffee Break
18:50 2nd Session
Chair: Melvin Dalgarno
18:50 Sergio Cremaschi, “The Italian Enlightenment's
ethical-political program”
19:20 Athanasia Glykofridi-Leontsini, “Tolerance and freedom
of thought in the Greek Enlightenment: the case of E. Voulgaris”
19:50 Drosos & Kavala, “Nationhood and Ethnic Tolerance.
Three Different Approaches
of the ‘Jewish Question’ in the Age of the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment”
20:20 Roberto Rodríguez Milán, “Philosophical Utopia and
Political Pragmatism in the Spanish Enlightenment”
20: 50 End of the 1st day
21:00 Dinner
Sunday June 2
17:30 3rd Session
Chair: Örsan Oymen
17:30 Nathaniel Wolloch, “Nationalism, Toleration, and the
Transition from the Enlightenment to Liberalism”
18:00 Chris Grigoriou, “Edmund Burke’s politics of
sympathy: tolerance and solidarity for India”
18:30 4th Session
Chair: Athanasia Glykofridi-Leontsini
18:30 Harvey Chisick,
“Toleration: The Problematic Virtue of the French Enlightenment”
19:00 Işil Çeşmeli, “The Concept of Toleration in Persian
Letters and the Spirit of Laws”
19:30 Özlem Ünlü, “Hobbes on Toleration: Private Belief and
Public Confession”
20:00 Break
20:15 5th Session
Chair: Sergio Cremaschi
20:15 Tito Magri, “David Hume: The imagination and the
passions”
20:45 Örsan Oymen, “Hume on Fact and Fiction”
21:15 Closing Remarks
Nathaniel Wollock, Sergio Cremaschi, Dionysis Drosos
21:30 End of the 2nd day
22:00 Dinner
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Each speaker has totally 30 minutes for the presentation and the
Q&A.
