Colloque "Rousseau, Poland and Europe", Varsovie, 1-3 février 2018

"Rousseau, Poland and Europe:
Federalism, Sovereignty, Prosperity, Patriotism"

Colloque international, du 1 au 3 février 2018

Collège d'Europe, Varsovie

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) remains one of the most significant and most controversial of all political philosophers, who threw down fundamental challenges to the assumptions of Europe's intellectual elites concerning progress, modernity and freedom. As the already vast scholarship on Rousseau grows apace, the interpretation of his ideas continues to provoke intense and unrelenting debate.

The crucial problems Rousseau tackled in one of his most important yet underappreciated works, his Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne (1771), include the conference themes of federalism, sovereignty, prosperity and patriotism.

Jeudi 1er février

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 Jagielloński, Kraków)
Dr Chris Brooke (University of Cambridge)

Vendredi 2 février

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 Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (Instytut Badań 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), Michał 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 Radosław Szymański (Université de Lausanne), Rousseau’s Considérations in the Eyes of Michał Wielhorski and the Counts Mniszech

 

Samedi 3 février

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​

 

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