Day One
Thursday, December 9th, 10:00-11:35 AM (PST)
Opening Remarks
Deanna Shemek (UCI), Director, Center for Early Cultures
Presentations
Markku Peltonen (University of Helsinki), “Thomas Hobbes, Democracy and the English Free State”
Jayne Lewis (UCI), “‘This Silence of Sense’: Hobbes’s Sleeping Subject”
Moderator
Mary McThomas (UCI)
Thursday December 9th, 1:30-3:00 PM
Presentations
Ted Miller (University of Alabama), “Reunion, Collision and Reflection: Hobbes, Rhetoric and Politics in Contexts”
Keith Topper (UCI), “Resistance to Rhetoric in Interpretations of Hobbes”
Moderator
Victoria Silver (UCI)
Day Two
Friday, December 10th, 10:00-11:30 AM
Presentations
Tracy Strong (University of Southampton), “Hobbes and the Rhetoric of Theatricalization: Sovereignty and Spectacle”
Victoria Silver (UCI), “Considering Hobbes: The Sense of Consideration in Leviathan”
Moderator
Julia Reinhard Lupton (UCI)
Friday, December 10th, 1:00-2:30 PM
Keynote Address: S. A. Lloyd (University of Southern California), “Hobbes in Perspective: What’s at Stake and What We’ve Learned In the Last Hundred Years of Interpretive Scholarship”
Moderator
Keith Topper (UCI)
Friday, December 10th, 3:00-4:30 PM
Presentations
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley), “Hobbes and Historical Knowledge”
James Martel (San Francisco State University), “Hobbes and the Power of Collective Prophecy”
Moderator
Kevin Olson (UCI)
Day Three: Graduate Student Conference
See the full schedule HERE