Programme

Thursday, 28th November

9:45 : Opening remarks
by the organizers and the editors of the volume

Session 1

10:15 : Dialogo di Galileo Galilei sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano
Cornel Zwierlein, Berlin

11:15 : Jean Bodin, Colloquium Heptaplomeres
Catherine Power, York University, Canada

Chair : Johan Olsthoorn (University of Amsterdam

12:15 : Lunch break

Session 2

13:15 : Guicciardini's Dialogo del reggimento di Firenze
Stefano Saracino, Universität Jena

14:15 : Baconian and Hobbesian Dialogues
Sam Zeitlin, University College London

Chair : Monica Brito Vieira, University of York, UK

15:15 : Break

Book Launch Interlude

15:40 : Presentation of Hobbes on Justice
Johan Olsthoorn

Session 3

16:00 : Hobbes's Dialogue on the Common Law
Peter Schröder, University College London

17:00 : Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue
Kinch Hoekstra, University of California at Berkeley

Chairs : Mónica Brito Vieira, University of York, UK
Alan Cromartie, University of Reading

18:00 : End

Friday, 29th November

Session 4

9:45 : De Symbolo Niceno (Latin Leviathan 1st of three dialogues in appendix)
Jerónimo Rilla, EHESS-CESPRA

10:45 : De Haeresi (Latin Leviathan 2nd of three dialogues in appendix)
Eric Marquer, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne

12:00 : De quibusdam objectionibus contra Leviathan (Latin Leviathan 3rd of three dialogues in appendix)
Jon Parkin, University of Oxford

Chair : Laurens van Apeldoorn, Leiden University

13:00 : Lunch break

Session 5

14:00 : The questions concerning liberty, necessity, and chance
Noah Dauber, Colgate University

15:00 : Behemoth
Jeffrey Collins, University of Florida

Chair : Johan Olsthoorn, University of Amsterdam

Session 6

16:30 : Hobbes against Wallis and Boyle : Examinatio et Emendatio Mathematicae Hodiernae (1660) and Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aëris (1661)
Raffaella Santi, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo

17:30 : Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), The Prerogative of Parliaments in England: Proved in a Dialogue
Jason Peacey, University College London

Chair : Alan Cromartie, University of Reading

18:30 : End

Saturday, 30th November

Session 7

9:45 : Eachard, Mr Hobbs's State of Nature Considered in a Dialouge Between Philantus and Timothy and Eachard, Some Opinions of Mr Hobbs considered in a Second Dialogue
Luc Foisneau, CNRS-CESPRA

10:45 : Tenison, The Creed of Mr. Hobbes examined in a feigned Conference between him and a Student in Divinity
Alexandra Chadwick, University of Jyväskylä

12:00 : The dialogical structure of Hobbes's political philosophy
Eva Odzuck, Universität Regensburg

Chair : Luka Ribarević, University of Zagreb

13:00 : Concluding remarks
by the organizers and editors of the volume

13:15 : Lunch break

14:15 : General meeting of the European Hobbes Society

15:15 : End

For general queries and registration, please contact Jerónimo Rilla : jeronimo.rilla@ehess.fr

Please note that participation will be limited due to venue capacity