Enlightenment and Freedom of Speech
Colloquium at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków,
ul. Grodzka 52, 19-20 May 2017
PROGRAMME
Friday 19 May 2017, Room 25:
9-9:10 Opening of the Colloquium
9:10-10:10 Prof. Ian Carter, University of Pavia: Free Speech, Opacity Respect, and the Causes of Harm
10:10-10:50 Prof. Tara Smith, University of Texas at Austin: Conceptual Confusions in the Way We Speak about Speech
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:40 Prof. Justyna Miklaszewska, Jagiellonian University: Freedom of Speech in Modern Political Culture
11:40-12:20 Dr. Iago Ramos, University of Salamanca: Rousseau on Propaganda
12:20-13 Joanna Iwanowska, MA, University of Warsaw: Shedding New Light on the Issue of Limiting the Freedom of Commercial Speech
13-15 Lunch break
15-15:40 Nora Timmermans, MA, KU Leuven: Classical Republicanism, Natural Republicanism, and the Revolutionary Press
15:40-16:20 Dr. Aleksandra Porada, SWPS University in Wrocław: The Perfect Device to Smuggle Ideas:Giovanni Paolo Marana’s
Pseudo-Oriental Letters
16:20-16:40 Coffee break
16:40-17:20 Dr. Ejvind Hansen, Danish School of Media and Journalism: Forgiving Deliberation in the Public Sphere
17:20-18 Wojciech Ufel, MA, University of Wrocław: Freedom of Speech or a Constraint of Reason?
Saturday 20 May 2017, Room 25:
9-10 Prof. Ulrich Lehner, Marquette University: Freedom of Speech in the Catholic Enlightenment
10-10:40 Prof. Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University: The Interlacing of Sacred and Secular Discourse in the French
Enlightenment: Perspectives on Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Works of Abbé Claude Yvon
10:40-11 Coffee break
11-11:40 Prof. Geert van Eekert, University of Antwerp, The Public Use of Reason: Freedom of Speech, Enlightenment, and the Social
Dimension of the Intellectual Independence
11:40-12:20 Prof. Giuliana di Biase, University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti: Freedom of Speech: A ‘Modest Vindication’ of the Practice of
Cursing and Swearing in Eighteenth-Century England
12:20-14 Lunch break
14-14:40 Prof. Francesca di Poppa, Texas Tech University: Superstition and Seditious Speech in Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise
14:40-15:20 Dr. Bartholomew Begley, University College Cork: The Change in Spinoza’s Critique of Censorship from the TheologicalPolitical Treatise to the Political Treatise
15:20-16 Dr. Francesco Quatrini, University of Macerata: Adam Boreel and John Dury on the ‘libertas prophetandi’: Does Collegiant
Freedom of Speech Lead to Enthusiasm?
16-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17 Prof. Mark Alfino, Gonzaga University: The Universality of Free Speech Culture
17-17:40 Anna Żymełka-Pietrzak, MA, Jagiellonian University: “What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am
in a slave’s smock at home?” Johann Georg Hamann’s Metacritique of Kant’s Essay ‘What Is Enlightenment?’
Organising Committee: Dr. Anna Tomaszewska & Dr. Hasse Hämäläinen
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Design © Hasse Hämäläinen 2017. Background picture: ‘On Behalf of the King,’ L’imprimerie royale, Versailles 1789. Original image © Newberry Digital Collections for The Classroom (Item call number: Case Wing folio Z144 .A1 v. 10 no. 87). License: ‘non-commercial, educational purposes’.