Events
This page lists events and conferences on Thomas Hobbes organised by the European Hobbes Society and others.
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Event Information:
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Thu22Nov2018Fri23Nov2018Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hobbes and Gender Workshop
Day 1: Thursday, November 22
Location: KH 0.024, Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen
9.30-10.00 Welcome Tea and Coffee
10.00-10.15 Opening Talk by the Organizers
10.15-11.15 Meghan Robison (Montclair): Mother Lords and the Power of Preserving Life in Hobbes‘s Leviathan
11.15-12.15 Joel van Fossen (Boston): Birth follows the belly: A reinterpretation of natural maternal dominion in Hobbes
12.15-14.00 Lunch
14.15-15.15 Joanne Boucher (Winnipeg): Feminist Implications of Hobbes‘s Economic Theory
15.15-16.15 Alissa MacMillan (Antwerp): Eve‘s Ambition: Hobbes, Milton, and the ‘Desire of office, or precedence’
16.15-17.00 Coffee
17.00-18.30 S. A. Lloyd (Los Angeles): From Moral Equality to Political Subordination in Hobbes and Rawls
19.00/19.30 Conference Dinner
Day 2: Friday, November 23
Location: KH 0.024, Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen
09.30-11.00 Susanne Sreedhar (Boston): Hobbes and the dethroning of sex
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Eun Kyung Min (Seoul): Reading Rape and Romance in Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish
12.15-13.15 Erika Tucker (Milwaukee): Hobbesian Naturalism and its Promise for a Feminist Theory of Power
13.30-14.30 Concluding lunch
Organizers: Eva Odzuck (Erlangen): eva.odzuck@fau.de Alexandra Chadwick (Groningen): a.a.f.chadwick@rug.nl