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Apologies for cross-postings! ------------ KEELE-OXFORD-ST ANDREWS KANTIAN (KOSAK) RESEARCH CENTRE Friday, 23 November 2018, 6-7:15pm Conference Room, Claus Moser Research Centre ‘J.-J. ROUSSEAU’* ANNUAL LECTURE Taking Men as They Are and Laws as They Can Be: Rousseau and Hobbes on the State of Nature By Susan Shell (Boston) The Annual Lecture will be preceded by a wine reception starting at 5pm in the Claus Moser’s Foyer. Saturday, 24 November 2018, 9:30am-5:30pm Conference Room, Claus Moser Research Centre ‘J.-J. ROUSSEAU’* ANNUAL CONFERENCE Speakers: Susan Shell (Boston) Helga Varden (Illinois) Howard Williams (Cardiff) Ralf Bader (Oxford) Sorin Baiasu (Keele) Papers will discuss several of Professor Shell’s recent texts on Kant, in particular: “History and Politics: Kant’s Later View” “Kant’s Idea of Dignity: Value and Sublimity in Kant’s Groundlaying of the Metaphysics of Morals” “Kant as Soothsayer: The Problem of Progress and the ’Sign’ of History" All welcome! CALL FOR COMMENTATORS AND CHAIRPERSONS: If you would like to act as commentator for the papers given by Professors Varden, Williams, Bader or Baiasu, or would like to chair any of the sessions, please reply to this email. Funding will be available for commentators and chairpersons. Deadline: 29 October 2018 --------------------------- The ‘Rousseau’ Annual Lecture and Conference, as well as the KOSAK Symposium are organised with the support of the British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship “Dealing Ethically with Conflicts between Deep Commitments: A Dual Critical-Hermeneutic Approach” (co-holders Dr Ruhi Demiray [Siegen] and Professor Sorin Baiasu [Keele]), the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre, the HSS Faculty Research Office, the Research Centre for SPIRE and the School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment (SPIRE)@Keele. The 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau' Annual Lecture and Conference usually take place at the end of November (occasionally moved on the following year in March). The previous Rousseau Annual Lectures were given by Pauline Kleingeld (2017 - took place in March 2018), Julian Savulescu (2016), Mark Timmons (2015 - took place in March 2016), Howard Williams (2014), Adrian Piper (2013), Alan Montefiore (2012), John Horton (2011 - took place in March 2012), Stephen Engstrom (2010), Miranda Fricker (2009) and Giuseppina D'Oro (2008). *Why the Jean-Jacques Rousseau lecture? We hereby celebrate the true but very little known fact that Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived for a time in Staffordshire. From 22 March 1766 to 1 May 1767 Rousseau lived in the little Staffordshire village of Wootton. Rousseau had been invited to England by David Hume with whom he soon afterwards quarrelled. He then spent the next year in seclusion in Staffordshire writing the first drafts of his Confessions. When he was not writing it is said that he roamed the Staffordshire countryside in his Armenian costume studying wild flowers. Many years after his departure the locals remembered ‘Owd Ross Hall’, not just for his eccentricities but also for his gifts to local charities. They believed he was a king in exile! (Stephen Leach – Honorary Research Fellow, Keele Humanities and Social Sciences) Sorin Baiasu Professor of Philosophy Keele University keele.ac.uk/spire/staff/baiasu ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ECPR-THEORY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ECPR-THEORY&A=1