Religious Toleration in the Modern World

The Workshop took place from 29 to 31 January 2014 at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel

Wednesday, 29 January
09:30 - 10:30 TIM STANTON (UNIVERSITY OF YORK): "Some thoughts concerning religious toleration"

10:30 - 11:00 break

11:00 - 12:00 TERESA BEJAN (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY): "Persecution of the Tongue: Tolerating Difference and Disagreement in Early Modern England and America."

12:00 - 13:00 MARTIN VAN GELDEREN (LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG): "Reading Rembrandt"

13:00 - 14:30 lunch

14:30 - 15:30 MARK HUTCHINSON (LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG): "Rereading English Political Thought in Ireland's Dysfunctional and Ungodly Polity, c. 1558 to 1625"

15:30 - 16:00 break

16:00 - 17:00 POLLY HA (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA): "Towards a Broader Understanding of Religious Toleration in Early Modern England, c. 1590-1660"

17:00 - 18:00 THOMAS KAUFMANN (UNIVERSITÄT GÖTTINGEN): "What is Lutheran Confessional Culture?"

Thursday, 30 January
9:30 - 10:30 MEELIS FRIEDENTHAL (LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG): "The place of metaphysics in university disputations and the freedom of philosophizing"

10:30 - 11:00 break

11:00 - 12:00 MIRJAM VAN VEEN (VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM): "Foreign Threats to a Dutch Virtue? Rhineland exiles and the Culture of Toleration in the Early Dutch Republic"

12:00 - 14:00 lunch

14:00 - 15:00 IOANA MANEA (LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG): "Towards a "City of Man"? Politics and Ethics against Religious Intolerance in the France of the 1630's-1640's"

15:00 - 15:30 break

15:30 - 16:30 JOSEPH BERGIN (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER): "La Tolérance introuvable: French difficulties with religious pluralism, 16th and 17th centuries"

16:30 - 17:30 JOHN DUNN (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE): tba

Friday, 31 January
9:30 - 10:30 HAIM MAHLEV (LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG): "Right bases itself [..] on Might, and all Obligation on Fear": Natural Religion, Reason, and the Concept of Tolerance in the German Enlightenment"

10:30 - 11:00 break

11:00 - 12:00 HANS ERICH BÖDEKER (GÖTTINGEN): "Beyond religious tolerance: The discourse of the protestant German Enlightenment on tolerance?"