Religious Toleration in Modern Times
July 8–9, 2015 – Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Historische Sternwarte
Wednesday, 8 July
9:30 – 11:00
Tim Stanton (York): John Locke, ecclesiastical history, and histories of toleration
11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break
11:30 – 13:00
Iain Hampsher-Monk (Exeter): Toleration studies and political theory: Where should it go?
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Isabelle Moreau (London): Early formulations of (religious) toleration: Montaigne – La Mothe Le Vayer – Bayle
16:00 – 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00
Adam Sutcliffe (London): Rethinking the Roots of 'Jewish Emancipation': Integration, Regeneration and the New History of Toleration
Thursday, 9 July
9:30 – 11:00
Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth): Negotiating Tolerance in Europe and the Atlantic World, 17th-18th centuries
11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break
11:30 – 13:00
Avi Lifschitz (London / Göttingen): Religious Toleration and the Limits of the State: Prussian Debates from Mendelssohn to Schleiermacher (c. 1780-1800)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Peter Lake (Vanderbilt): The Public Politics of Regime Change: Thomas Digges, Robert Parsons, and Sir Francis Hastings Contest the Religio-political Arithmetic of the Elizabethan Fin de Siècle
