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Freedom, Servitude and Politics in Renaissance France Friday 7 February 2020: 10:00am to 5:00pm The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB A One-Day Colloquium organised by Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and John O'Brien (Durham University) In early modern French political, historical and literary traditions, questions of freedom and servitude remain perennial topics of debate. They are central to notions of government and the individual, for example. Recent new work has looked afresh at a range of fundamental issues relating to tyranny, submission, and liberty, affecting the history of ideas, political theory, and vernacular literature: see e.g. Laurent Gerbier, Lectures politiques de La Boétie, 2013; John O'Brien and Marc Schachter, La première circulation de la 'Servitude volontaire' en France et au-delà, 2019; Emma Claussen, Politics and 'Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France, CUP forthcoming. Six key researchers currently working in this field of study will represent a spectrum of current critical perspectives from France and the UK on early modern history, political theory, philosophy and literature. FULL PROGRAMME: 10.00: Doors, registration and coffee 10.25: Raphaële Mouren and John O'Brien: Welcome 10.30: John O'Brien (Durham): 'Mais de quel roi parlez-vous, et de quel prince? Sovereign Power, Freedom and La Boétie's Servitude volontaire in the 1580s' 11.20: Laurent Gerbier (Tours): 'Subjectivation et assujettissement: Deux manières de produire un sujet chez La Boétie': [given in French] 12.10: Olivier Guerrier (Toulouse): 'Verba ligant homines, taurorum cornua funes': [given in French] 1.00: Lunch 2.00: Emma Claussen (Cambridge): 'Est-ce vivre? The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne' 2.50: Wes Williams (Oxford): 'Quel monstre de vice [...] que la langue refuse de nommer? Monsters and the Politics of Naming in the Discours de la servitude volontaire (and beyond)' 3.40: Tea 4.00: Sophie Nicholls (Oxford): 'Order and Liberty in the Wars of Religion' 4.50: John O'Brien: Summary and Conclusions 5.00: Close and Wine Reception Supported by the Cassal Trust and the Warburg Institute, University of London. BOOKING: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/21433 Jon Millington Events and External Relations The Warburg Institute School of Advanced Study | University of London Woburn Square | London WC1H 0AB T: +44 (0)20 7862 8910 | E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/ The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the UK's national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MECCSA-PGN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA-PGN&A=1