Conceptions of Enlightenment is a one-day conference at Ertegun House, Oxford, concluding in a public lecture at 5pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston), author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014).

Programme

10.30: Arrival and welcome
11.00-1.00: first session, chaired by John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
11.00: Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford), ‘Ernst Cassirer’
11.40: Ben Morgan (University of Oxford), ‘Horkheimer and Adorno’
12.20: Judith Still (University of Nottingham), ‘Michelle Le Doeuff’
1.00-1.40: Buffet lunch
1.40-4.00: Second session, chaired by Nicholas Cronk (University Oxford)
1.40: Laurence Brockliss (University of Oxford), ‘Peter Gay’
2.20: Marian Hobson (Queen Mary, London), ‘Margaret Jacob’
3.00: Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London), ‘Jonathan Israel’
3.40: Closing comments by John Robertson
4.00: Tea
5.00: Public lecture by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014): ‘The Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments’.

The conference is being organised by the TORCH Enlightenment Programme. Visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/enlightenment to find out more details about the Enlightenment Programme.