Müller Colloquium Spring 2008

“Reason and its Rivals in France, 1600-1800”

Friday February 22

Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Presiding: John Lyons, Department of French
Afternoon Session

1:00-1:15  Welcoming remarks.

1:15-2:00   Jorge Secada, “Descartes’s Validation of Reason”

2:00-2:15   Break

2:15-3:00   Michael Moriarty, “Knowing and Knowing in Descartes”

3:00-3:15   Break

3:15-4:00   Laurence Devillairs, “Le rationalisme tempéré de Descartes”

4:15-4:30   Break 

4:30-5:15   Roundtable: A Reasonable Cartesianism (J. Marshall, A. Lolordo, C. Lyu, D. Devereux and the speakers)

5:30-6:30   Reception for speakers and public Newcomb Hall Main Lounge

Saturday February 23

Gibson Room, Cocke Hall

Presiding: Alison Murray Levine, Department of French
Morning Session

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00-9:45   Sophia Rosenfeld, “Common Sense in the Age of Reason”

9:45-10:00 Break 

10:00-10:45  Lynn Mollenauer, “Courtroom Magic”

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Roundtable: From Magic to Common Sense (E. Midelfort, J. Tsien, and the speakers)

Gibson Room, Cocke Hall

Presiding: Kandioura Dramé, Department of French
Afternoon Session

2:00-2:45  Jennifer Tsien, “Of Race, Reason, and Good Taste.”

2:45-3:00  Break

3:00-3:45  John Lyons  “Cleopatra’s Nose and the Reason of Love.”

3:45-4:00  Break 

4:00-5:00  Roundtable: Love, Taste, and Reason   (A. Blatt, D. McGrady, and the speakers)

5:15-6:30  Reception for speakers and public   Colonnade Club, Solarium.

DIRECTIONS to event location:

Cocke Hall: when you leave Cabell and head towards the Rotunda, Cocke Hall is the first building on the left.

Gibson Library: enter Cocke Hall, walk straight forward down the hallway, and it will be a large room with windows facing the amphitheater.

The University website offers a map of Grounds if you will be coming from another direction.