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

A conference organized with Royal Holloway College, London, to bring together scholars from the two sides of the Atlantic to explore questions and issues surrounding the emergence of political rights and religious tolerance, and the evolution and legacy of their varying understanding of the concepts and practices of freedom

Participants: Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University) Alastair Bellany (Rutgers University) Justin Champion (Royal Holloway College)Jeffrey Collins (Queens University) David Como (Stanford University) Faramerz Dabboiwala (Oxford University) Barbara Donagan (Huntington Library) Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway College) Fonna Forman-Barzilai (University of California, San Diego) Bryan Garsten (Yale University) Mark Goldie (Cambridge University)Philip Gorski (Yale University) Derek Hirst (Washington University, St Louis) Alan Houston (University of California, San Diego) Margaret Hunt (Amherst College) Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago) Mark Knights (University of Warwick)Ned Landsman (Stony Brook University, SUNY) James Livesey (University of Sussex) Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa) Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge University) John Marshall (Johns Hopkins University) Michael McKeon (Rutgers University) Jon Mee (University of Warwick) Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield) Paul Monod (Middlebury College) Sarah Mortimer (Cambridge University) Eric Nelson (Harvard University) Annabel Patterson (Yale University) Steven Pincus (Yale University) David Quint (Yale University) John Robertson (Oxford University) John Rogers (Yale University) John Seed (Rochampton University) Brent Sirota (North Carolina State University) Nigel Smith (Princeton University) John Spurr (University of Wales) Stephen Taylor (University of Reading) Elliott Visconsi (Yale University) Rachel Weill (Cornell University) Blair Worden (Royal Holloway College) Keith Wrightson (Yale University) Brian Young (Oxford University)

Sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the Lewis Walpole Library; the Council of European Studies, with a National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education; the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale; the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund; and the Royal Holloway College, London.