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), ‘Two Forms of Religious Liberty: Political Thinking and Ecclesiology in Early Modern 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), ‘Conceptual and Pragmatic Preconditions for the Alliance of Civil and Religious Liberty in Restoration England’

Mark Knights (University of Warwick), ‘The Right to Petition and Address, 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), ‘Religious and Political Freedom in Parliamentarian Thought, 1640-6’

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 Religious Liberty’

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

Chair: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)

John Rogers (Yale University), ‘ From Person to Individual: The Political Philosophy of Antitrinitaranism in Mid Seventeenth-Century England’

Elliott Visconsi (Yale University), ‘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), ‘ Liberty, Religion, and the Revolutions of 1688-1692’

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), ‘Underground Hansard: the Scofflaw Pamphlets of the Restoration 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, the Public Sphere, 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), ‘Four Forms of Religious and Civil Liberty in Eighteenth-Century England’

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: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 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.