Civil & Religious Liberty
Ideas of Rights and Tolerance in England c.1640-1800

A conference organized by Yale University in association with Royal Holloway College London to be held at Yale University
Wednesday 23 July-Saturday 26 July 2008

Wednesday, 23 July - Luce Hall - 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Chair: Steven Pincus (Yale University)

Justin Champion (Royal Holloway College), ‘Some Forms of Religious Liberty: Political Thinking, Ecclesiology and Freedom in Early Moder England'

Jeffrey Collins (Queens University), ‘Toleration and the Tradition of Civil Religion’

Session Two: 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair: Blair Worden (Royal Holloway College)

Michael McKeon (Rutgers University), ‘Civil and Religious Liberty in Restoration England'

Mark Knights (University of Warwick), ‘The Lowest Degree of Freedom: The Right to Petition 1640-1800'

Steven Pincus (Yale University), ‘1688 and its Eighteenth-Century Whig Interpreters: the Unmaking of a Revolution’

Break 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Session Three: 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Chair: Timothy Raylor (Carleton College)

Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge University), ‘Bondage in Babylon: The Bible, Freedom of Conscience, and Ideas of Civil Liberty in England, 1640-1800’

Eric Nelson (Harvard University), 'Hebrew Theocracy and the Rise of Toleration'

Bryan Garsten (Yale University), 'Religion and Representation in Hobbes'

Reception Luce Hall Common Room: 5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, 24 July - Luce Hall - 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Session Four: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Chair: Barbara Donagan (Huntington Library)

David Como (Stanford University), ‘Print, Censorship, and Religious Conflict, 1643-5'

Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield), ‘Religious and Civil-Liberty in the Tolerationist Writings of the English Royalists, 1640-1660’

Session Five: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Chair: Alastair Bellany (Rutgers University)

Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway College), ‘Milton and Sir Henry Vane’

Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa), ‘ Milton , Marvell and Rational Liberty’

Session Six: 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Chair: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)

John Rogers (Yale University), ‘ From Person to Individual: Milton and the Political Philosophy of Antitrinitarianism in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England'

Elliott Visconsi (Yale University), ‘The Garden and The Wilderness: John Milton and the Separation of Church and State'

Blair Worden (Royal Holloway College), ‘ Milton and Liberty’

Break 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session Seven: 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Chair: Philip Gorski (Yale University)

Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge), ‘The Dissenters and Toleration: The Impact of Locke’

John Marshall (John Hopkins University), ‘London's Liberties'

Friday, 25 July - Luce Hall - 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Coffee: 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Common Room, second floor

Session Eight: 9:00a.m. - 10:00a.m.

Chair: Paul Monod (Middlebury College)

Annabel Patterson (Yale University), ‘Scofflaw Pamphlets of the Long Parliament’

John Spurr (University of Swansea), ‘A Plausible Style: Wit, Religion and Liberty in Restoration England’

Session Nine: 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Chair: Stephen Taylor (University of Reading)

Sarah Mortimer (University of Cambridge), ‘Religious Liberty and Civil Peace: The Socinian Vision’

Brent Sirota (North Carolina State University), ‘Socinianism and the Crisis of Whig Divinity, 1687-1697’

Break: 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. Common Room, second floor

Session Ten: 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Chair: Keith Wrighton (Yale University)

Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Oxford University), ‘Lust and Liberty’

Margaret Hunt (Amherst College), ‘Gender, Civil Liberties, and Economic Justice: The Case of the Royal Navy’

Lunch: 12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Session Eleven: 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Chair: Clare Jackson (University of Cambridge)

David Quint (Yale University), ‘Liberty, Angels, and Devils in Paradise Lost’

Rachel Weil (Cornell University), ‘ The Politics of National Security after the Revolution of 1688'

Session Twelve: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Chair: James Livesey (University of Sussex)

John Seed (University of Roehampton), ‘Sins of the Fathers: Religious Dissent and the Burdens of History in Eighteenth-Century England’

Brian Young (Oxford University), ‘History and Liberty in the Republic of Ideas: John Jortin and the Uses of Ecclesiastical History'

Saturday, 26 July - Luce Hall - 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Coffee: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Session Thirteen: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Chair: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago)

Fonna Forman-Barzilai (University of California – San Diego), ‘Adam Smith and the Socialized Conscience'

John Robertson (Oxford University), ‘A Crisis of Religious Liberty? The Ending of Radical Enlightenment in the 1730s’

Session Fourteen: 10:15a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Chair: Ned Landsman (Stony Brook University, SUNY)

Alan Houston (University of California, San Diego), ‘Benjamin Franklin and Religious Liberty’

Jon Mee (University of Warwick), ‘Dissent, Candour and Conversation: Watts, Goodwin, Hazlitt'

Break: 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Panel-Led Summary Discussion: 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Chair: Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University)

Justin Champion (Royal Holloway), Steven Pincus ( Yale University), Blair Worden (Royal Holloway), and Keith Wrightson ( Yale University)

End of Conference: 1:00 p.m.