Event time:
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Luce Hall, Room 203
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
The Center for the Study of Representative Institutions at Yale presents a symposium:
“The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke.”
Schedule
1:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Human Nature and Politics in an Age of Revolutions
- “Reflections on Burke’s Moral Psychology” - Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
- “Burke and the Wildest Democratic Ideas of Freedom” - Yiftah Elazar, Yale University
- David Bromwich, Yale University, Respondent
- Bryan Garsten, Yale University, Chair
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:45 Empire and the Fate of Liberty
- “Sic Eat, O Superi! How Can I Defend the Present Order of Things?” - Regina Janes, Skidmore College
- “Burke andd the Challenge of Imperial Self-Knowledge” - Uday Mehta, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- David Bromwich, Yale University, Respondent
- Karuna Mantena, Yale University, Chair
5:45-6:15 Reception
For inquiries related to the conference, contact Yiftah Elazar at yiftah.elazar@yale.edu.
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public