Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment: Recent Episodes
The Huntington
The cosmopolitan ideal is commonly understood as one of the key legacies of the European Enlightenment. This interdisciplinary conference explores the possibilities and contradictions of the cosmopolitan ideal in the Enlightenment by considering a range of thematic perspectives, including Europe's regional and colonial peripheries. This conference is in honor of Anthony Pagden and his work.
Anthony Pagden, discusses "The Legacy of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism". Pagden is Professor of History and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
José Maria Hernández, discusses "A Pattern of Global Decorum? From Imperial Toleration to Cosmopolitan Politics". Hernández is from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distance in Spain.
David Armitage, discusses "Cosmopolitanism and Civil War". Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard.
Dr. Melissa Calaresu, discusses "Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism in Naples: The Case of Pietro Napoli-Signorelli (1731-1815)". Dr. Calaresu is Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
Sankar Muthu, discusses "Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism as a Theory of Interactive and Countervailing Powers". Muthu is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Joan-Pau Rubiés, discusses "The Cosmopolitan Paradox: Travel, Anthropology, and Cultural Diversity". Rubiés is the ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Daniel Carey, discusses "Locke's Dilemma: Cosmopolitanism, Rationality, and the Problem of Human Nature". Carey is Faculty at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Anoush Terjanian, discusses "Philosophical History and its Politics". Terjanian is Professor of History at East Carolina University.
Neil Safier, discusses "Enlightenment Natural History as Cosmopolitan Ideal". Safier is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.
Silvia Sebastiani, discusses "Gendered Cosmopolitanism? The History of Women and Civilization in the Scottish Enlightenment". Sebastiani is a lecturer at EHESS in Paris.
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, discusses "Baroque Cosmopolitanism and Creole Identities". Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Steve Hindle and Barbara Fuchs welcome participants and attendees to the "Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment" conference, held at the Huntington Library on December 13-14, 2013. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington. Fuchs is Professor at UCLA Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies and Director of The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.