PROGRAMME
All sessions will take place in Jubilee Building, room 144
Thursday 15th September
2:00-2:15
Iain McDaniel & Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) Welcome & introductory remarks
2:15-3:45 Chair: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)
Sophie Nicholls (Oxford) Defending ‘la patrie’: theorists of resistance in the French Catholic League
Signy Gutnick Allen (York) Early Modern Punishment and Resistance Rights
3:45-4:15 Coffee break
4:15-5:45 Chair: Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux) The English rational dissenters and the duty of resistance
Reidar Maliks (Oslo) Resistance and revolution in late eighteenth-century Germany
7:30 Dinner (venue tbc)
Friday 16th September
9:15–10:45 Chair: Andrew Chitty (Sussex)
Iain McDaniel (Sussex) Resisting the Demos? Resistance and Popular Sovereignty in early nineteenth-century Europe
Julia Nicholls (Oxford) The Boundaries of Resistance: Revolutionary Thought in Post-Revolutionary France
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:45 Chair: Joanne Paul (Sussex)
Tim Stanton (York) “and perhaps their Religion too”: resistance and religion from Locke to Barth
Caroline Ashcroft (Cambridge) Resistance and the Limits of Nonviolence in Arendt’s Political Thought
12:45-1:45 Lunch break
1:45-4:00 Chair: Iain McDaniel (Sussex)
Louiza Odysseos (Sussex) Human rights and/as counter-conduct: resistance between limited political action and ‘illimitable’ ethical self-formation
Denis Chevrier-Bosseau (Sussex) Contesting the Present: Nietzsche and Resistance in the Age of Whistleblowers
Lawrence Hamilton(Wits/Cambridge) Resistance and Radical Democracy: Freedom, Power and Institutions
4:00-4:15 break
4:15-4:45 Concluding remarks led by Andrew Chitty (Sussex) and Joanne Paul (Sussex)