On 1-3 February 2018, the College of Europe in Natolin hosted an international conference entitled “Rousseau, Poland and Europe: Federalism – Sovereignty – Prosperity – Patriotism”, organized by Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (CoE) and Graham Clure (Université de Lausanne).
The programme of the conference:
Thursday 1 February
Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (College of Europe, Natolin), Introduction (including a tribute to Jerzy Michalski)
19.00-20.00 Why is Rousseau’s advice to Poles still relevant to Europe today?
Chaired by Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (College of Europe, Natolin)
Prof. Andrzej Nowak (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków)
Dr Chris Brooke (University of Cambridge)
Friday 2 February
9.30-11.00 Rousseau’s Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne: Text, Context and Interpretation
Chaired by Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (College of Europe, Natolin)
Prof. Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz (Instytut Badan Literackich, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa), Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne: Vision – Project – Dialogue
Prof. Dominique Triaire (Université de Montpellier III), Sur les variantes manuscrites des Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne
11.30-13.00 Rousseau’s Contemporaries and Poland
Chaired by Prof. Izabella Zatorska (Université de Varsovie)
Prof. François Rosset (Université de Lausanne), Les Turbolenze de Casanova: l’envers des Considérations de Rousseau
Dr Julie Ferrand (Université Saint-Étienne), Réflexions sur les reformes commerciales dans Du gouvernement et des loix de Pologne de Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
14.30-15.45 Agriculture, Industry and Depopulation I: Physiocracy and Poland
Chaired by Mr Auguste Bertholet (Université de Lausanne)
Dr Graham Clure (Université de Lausanne), Michal Wielhorski, Physiocracy and Rousseau’s Political Economy
Dr Thérence Carvalho (Université de Lyon III), Sauver une République en péril : le regard des physiocrates sur la souveraineté de la Pologne
16.15-17.30 Agriculture, Industry and Depopulation II: Switzerland and Poland
Prof. Béla Kapossy (Université de Lausanne), The Influence of Swiss Reform Theory in Rousseau’s Considérations
Mr Radoslaw Szymanski (Université de Lausanne), Rousseau’s Considérations in the Eyes of Michal Wielhorski and the Counts Mniszech
Saturday 3 February
9.15-10.30 The Influence of Rousseau and the Polish Cause in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany
Prof. Alexander Schmidt (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Curing Monsters: Ideas of Federalism and Patriotic Reform for Poland and the German Empire in the later Eighteenth Century
Dr Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex), The Legacy of Rousseau’s General Will and German Perspectives on Poland in Post-Revolutionary Europe
11.00-13.00 Composite States and Modern Republicanism: Poland, Britain and Beyond
Dr Anna Plassart (Open University and Christ Church, Oxford), Rousseau and Poland: Some Scottish Perspectives
Dr Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge), Rousseau and Federalism
Prof. Gregory S. Brown (University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford), Concluding Remarks: Rousseau, Liberty and Enlightenment Studies Today?
PDF version to be found here.