Participants:
Nir Ben Moshe
Raz Chen-Morris
Sergio Cremaschi
Dionysis Drosos
Miri Eliav-Feldon
Shmuel Feiner
Doğan Göçmen
David Heyd
Roberto Milan Rodrigues
Tito Magri
Fania Oz-Salzberger
Örsan Öymen
Spyridon Tegos
Halil Turan
Gloria Vivenza
Nathaniel Wolloch
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
University of Ioannina
Historical Society of Israel
Bar-Ilan University and Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
Dokuz Eylül University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hellenic Open University
Sapienza – Università di Roma
University of Haifa
Işik University, Istanbul
University of Crete
Middle East Technical University
Università degli Studi di Verona
Tel Aviv University
The 6th International Conference of
The Mediterranean Society for
Enlightenment Studies
Enlightenment, Religion
and the Historical Imagination
In Memory of Michael Heyd
The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem ; The Historical Society of Israel ;
The History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; Posen
Forum for Political Thought, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
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Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Venue: Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
17:00-18:30 - Opening Event:
Chair: Fania Oz-Salzberger, University of Haifa; Director,
Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies
Greetings:
Miri Eliav-Feldon, The Historical Society of Israel
Raz Chen-Morris, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dionysis Drosos, University of Ioannina
Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University; Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
Keynote Lecture: David Heyd, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem: "Subverting the Enlightenment Project:
Rousseau's Use of the Genealogical Method".
Tito Magri, Sapienza – Università di Roma:
Personal Identity, Idea of Self, Intimate Consciousness.
3rd session: 12:15-14:15
Chair: Sergio Cremaschi, Università degli Studi del
Piemonte Orientale
Spyridon Tegos, University of Crete:
Adam Smith on Impartiality, Authority and Civil Religion.
Nathaniel Wolloch, Tel Aviv University:
Adam Smith on Religion and Historical Progress.
Doğan Göçmen, Dokuz Eylül University:
Rousseau's Conception of Morality, Liberty and
Religious Tolerance.
4th session: 15:15-16:45
1st Session: 19:00-21:00
Chair: Gloria Vivenza
Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University; Leo Baeck Institute
Jerusalem: The Haskalah Project of Secularization:
Challenging ‘The Religious Turn’.
Halil Turan, Middle East Technical University:
Theories of Social Contract, Historical Imagination and
the Problem of Human Nature.
Roberto Milan Rodrigues, Hellenic Open University:
The Spanish Enlightenment and Democracy:
From Sinapia to La Pepa.
Dionysis Drosos, University of Ioannina:
Neo-hellenic Enlightenment: From Radicalism to
Religious Nationalism.
Wednesday, May 24 2017
Venue: Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
2nd session: 10:00-12:00 Chair: Shmuel Feiner
Gloria Vivenza, Università degli Studi di Verona:
Enlightenment and the Historical Imagination.
Nir Ben Moshe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Solving the New Sympathy-Approbation Problem:
A Defense of Smithian Sympathy, Approbation, and
Moral Judgment.
Örsan Öymen, Işik University, Istanbul:
Hume on Religion and Morality
5th session: 17: 00-18:00
Chair: Fania Oz-Salzberger, Sergio Cremaschi, Doğan
Göçmen, Dionysis Drosos
Concluding Remarks