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Algernon Sidney’s Calvinist Republicanism and the End of the Long Sixteenth Century

Lecture | November 9 | 4-4:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Michael P. Winship, E. Merton Coulter Professor of History at the University of Georgia

Sponsors: European Studies, Institute of, British Studies, Center of

Algernon Sidney’s masterwork Discourses Concerning Government, was one of the most popular books on political theory in the eighteenth century and inspired luminaries of liberty as various as Montesquieu, Franklin, and Jefferson. It has long been assumed that Sidney, active in the Rump Parliament’s republic, was a
proto-Enlightenment figure in his religion. He was, in fact, a... More >

The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Lecture | November 9 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 7415 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dan Edelstein, French/Italian, Stanford University

Sponsor: French Studies Program

Dan Edelstein will be discussing his recent book: The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Chicago, 2009).

Response by Carla Hesse (History and Dean of Social Science, UCB)
Moderated by David Bates (Rhetoric, UCB)

Friday, November 20, 2009

Tear Down This Wall! Internet Art Circumventing Censorship and Unveiling Secret Prisons

Lecture | November 20 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library

Featured Speakers: Christoph Wachter; Mathias Jud

Sponsors: European Studies, Institute of, German, Department of

Focusing on walls on a global scale, internet artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud will talk about their various projects focusing on sites ranging from "the valley of the clueless" in Dresden/East Germany to Guantanamo and Chinese internet cafés. Their work demonstrates the many ways in which the World Wide Web is regulated by institutional barriers and national laws. This... More >

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Price of a Life: Toward a History of the Valuation of Human Life, ca. 1600-ca.1800

Lecture | November 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Edward Gray, Professor of History, Florida State University

Sponsors: European Studies, Institute of, British Studies, Center of

This paper is a very early foray into a moral and legal history of the monetization of human life from roughly the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. What I hope to do with the paper is gain a little clarity about what exactly the pricing of a person, in this case a C Efree¹ person, meant to 17th and 18th century jurists and moral philosophers. To that end, the paper focuses... More >

Wednesday, December 2, 2009