Events

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Event Information:

  • Thu
    15
    Feb
    2018
    Fri
    16
    Feb
    2018

    Hobbes after Leviathan: Beyond Leviathan?

    Università degli Studi di Padova

    THURSDAY MORNING
    Department FISPPA, Palazzo del Capitanio, Piazza Capitaniato 3, Aula Seminari.

    09.30-10.00 – M. FARNESI CAMELLONE, M. PICCININI, Introduction: Ten Thesis on Hobbes after Leviathan

    Keynote Speakers Session
    Chair: GIOVANNI FIASCHI (UNIPD)

    10.00-11.30 – PATRICIA SPRINGBORG (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Hobbes's State Theory and Roman Law

    11.30-11.45 Break

    11.45-13.15 – LUC FOISNEAU (EHESS-CNRS, Paris), Punishment after Leviathan
    13.30 Conference lunch

    THURSDAY AFTERNOON
    Department DiSSGeA, Palazzo Luzzato Dina, Via Vescovado 30, Aula Sto2

    Workshop Session 1
    Chair: MARIO PICCININI (UNIPD)

    15.00-16.00 – GUIDO FRILLI (Università di Firenze), The Elusiveness of Conscience. Hobbes after Leviathan.
    16.00-17.00 – ASAF SOKOLOWSKI (Independent Scholar), Demarcating Hobbes’ Leviathan and Behemoth – Back to the Book of Job.

    17.00-17.30 Break

    17.30-18.30 – LORENZO RUSTIGHI (Universidad de Boenos Aires), Imitations of Law: The Problem of Custom in Hobbes’s Dialogue.

    20.00 Conference dinner

    FRIDAY MORNING
    Department SPGI, Ca’ Dottori, via del Santo 28, Aula Seminari 2

    Workshop Session 2
    Chair: MAURO FARNESI CAMELLONE (UNIPD)

    10.00-11.00 – MAURIZIO MERLO (Università di Padova), History and Politics in Behemoth

    11.00-12.00 – ZEYNEP KOÇAK (European University Institute – Firenze), Hobbes’s Quasi-Evolution on the Concept of Masses: the Multitude, the People, or a Construct of a Multi-layered Society from the Beginning?

    12.00-12.15 Break

    12.15-13.15 – LUCA TENNERIELLO (Università di Roma, La Sapienza), “Cultivating” Your Own Conscience: Civil Education as a Cure for Seditious Opinions in Behemoth

    13.15-14.30 Conference Lunch

    FRIDAY AFTERNOON
    Department SPGI, Ca’ Dottori, via del Santo 28, Aula Seminari 2

    Workshop Session 3
    Chair: MAURIZIO MERLO (UNIPD)

    14.30-15.30 – MARIO PICCININI (Università di Padova), «I speak generally of Law». Locating Dialogue.

    15.30-16.30 – MAURO FARNESI CAMELLONE (Università di Padova), The Material Semiotics of Behemoth.

    FINAL ROUND TABLE