Schedule

Day One

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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

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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

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