SYMPOSIUM: Mme de Staël en haar kring – Mme de Staël and her Circle [deDebatten] (Brussel: VUB, 22 SEP 2022)

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On Thursday 22 September 2022 De Debatten (VUB and Leiden University) and CY Cergy Paris Université will host an international conference on Mme De Staël and her circle of intellectuals. The conference will take place in Brussels. 



PROGRAMMA (O.V.)

09u15 Ontvangst met koffie – registration with coffee 

09u40 Inleiding ochtendgedeelte, door Jef Van Bellingen (professor emeritus VUB)

09u50 Corinne en het Italiaanse nationale karakter, door Michel Huysseune (gastprofessor VUB)

10u20 Italië zien en dan sterven. Over Corinne, door Paul Pelckmans (professor emeritus Universiteit Antwerpen)

10u50 Madame De Staël over zelfdoding, door Ann Van Sevenant (filosofe en auteur)

11u20 Q&A en koffiepauze 

11u40 Necker, De Staël en Humboldt over de universiteit, staat en burgerlijke samenleving, door Matthias Storme (professor KU Leuven)

12u10 De Staëls opvattingen over de Franse revolutie en De Bonalds kritiek daarop, door Andreas Kinneging (professor Universiteit Leiden)

12u40 Q&A

13u00 Lunch at VUB resto

14u00 Introduction to afternoon sessions, by Maarten Colette (guest professor at VUB)

14u10 Between monarchy and republic. Madame De Staël’s anglo-american constitutionalism, by Giuseppe Sciara (researcher at Bologna University)

14u40 De Staël and utilitarianism, by Emmanuelle de Champs (professor at CY Cergy Paris University)

15u10 The power of influence. The Polish reception of Mme De Staël’s political thought, by Anna Budzanowska (professor at Cracow University)

15u40 Q&A and coffee break 

16u10 Liberty in love? Adolphe vs. De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations, by Catherine Marshall (professor at CY Cergy Paris University)

16u40 Mme De Staël’s Réflexions sur la paix and the Peace projects around 1800, by Raphaël Cahen (guest professor at VUB)

 

17u10 Q&A

17u45 Out for apero and dinner at Quartier Latin restaurant   

PRIJS DAGPROGRAMMA 25 euro, PhD studenten en studenten gratis

DATUM Donderdag 22 september van 9u15 tot 18u

LOCATIE VUB, faculteit rechten, facultaire vergaderzaal (lokaal C.409)

INFO en INSCHRIJVEN Maarten.Colette@vub.be

BOEKEN VERSCHENEN IN DE REEKS VAN DE DEBATTEN

Tocqueville

Andreas Kinneging, Paul De Hert & Stefan Somers (eds.), Tocqueville. Profeet van de moderne democratie, Rotterdam, Lemniscaat, 2013.  

 

Rousseau

Paul De Hert (ed.), Rousseau. De wandelende paradox, Antwerpen, Pelckmans, 2013.

 

Constant

Paul De Hert, Andreas Kinneging & Maarten Colette (eds.), Benjamin Constant. Ontdekker van de moderne vrijheid, Antwerpen, Pelckmans, 2015.

 

Montesquieu

Andreas Kinneging,  Paul De Hert & Maarten Colette (eds.), Montesquieu. Enigmatisch observateur, Antwerpen, Uitgeverij Vrijdag, 2016. 

 

Edmund Burke

Andreas Kinneging, Paul De Hert & Maarten Colette (eds.), Burke, Brussel, ASP, 2017. 

 

Federalist Papers

Paul De Hert, Andreas Kinneging & Gerard Versluis (eds.), De federalist papers. Bakermat van het moderne constitutionalisme, Budel, Damon, 2018.

 

Hobbes

Andreas Kinneging, Maarten Colette & Paul de Hert (eds.), Thomas Hobbes. De ik-gerichtheid van de politieke filosofie, Budel, Damon, 2019. 

 

Kant 

Andreas Kinneging, Paul De Hert & Maarten Colette (eds.), Kant. Vijftien filosofen over grondslagen en grenzen van de rede, Budel, Damon, 2021.

 

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