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    Hobbes: Between Rome and Athens

    Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Center for Postgraduate Studies, Chile

    II International Colloquium on Thomas Hobbes: “Hobbes: Between Rome and Athens.”

    This colloquium seeks to explore, from different angles, the influence of Greek and Roman traditions on the ideas of Thomas Hobbes.

    PROGRAMME:

    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4TH: Room: 202-C / Sede de Postgrados [Center for Postgraduate Studies]

    Opening Remarks, by Ignacio Briones, Dean of the School of Government, and Gonzalo Bustamante Director of Fondecyt Research Project no. 1170869.

    KEYNOTE LECTURE I:

    Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley): Hobbes’s Attack on Aristotle

    PANEL I:

    Daniel Chernilo (Universidad Diego Portales): Jürgen Habermas as a Reader of Hobbes: Whose Natural Law?

    Aldo Mascareño (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez): Hobbes’s Concept of Society

    Cristóbal Bellolio (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez): Is Hobbes a Liberal? Between Conceptual and Normative Analysis

    KEYNOTE LECTURE II:

    Andrés Rosler (Universidad de Buenos Aires): Hobbes and Political Violence

    PANEL II:

    Luka Ribarevic (University of Zagreb): From Acquisition to Institution: The Peculiar Kingdom of God

    Patricia Springborg (Humboldt University): Hobbes & Roman Law

    Panel III:

    Cristóbal Joannon (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez): Prudence According to Hobbes. Aristotle: A Disagreement

    Mathieu González (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez): Histoire, création, arti cialité et historicisme dans la pensée Hobbes

    Diego Rossello (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez): Mad Dogs and Other Republican Animals in Hobbes’s Political Theory

    KEYNOTE LECTURE III:

    Marco Geuna (State University of Milan): Hobbes and the Relations between Sovereign States

    KEYNOTE LECTURE IV:

    Luc Foisneau (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS): What Is Punishment Good for in Hobbes?