Montesquieu, A Philosopher for the Early American Republic ?

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A CNRS-University of Chicago Joint Program Initiative

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Wednesday, 15 June 2022

9:30 Opening of the Conference

9:30 Hugo Toudic : Welcome Speech Organizer of the Conference

9:45 Alain Schuhl : Opening Remarks Deputy CEO for Science, CNRS

10 - 12:15 From The Spirit of the Laws to the US Constitution (Chair : Céline Spector)

10 Jack Rakove, Professor Emeritus of History, Stanford University : "Montesquieu’s "Influence" on Madison : Some Problems, Some Puzzles"

11 Pause

11:15 Hugo Toudic, PhD Candidate, CNRS-University of Chicago/Sorbonne University : "’They are the sign – the people are the thing signified.’ Political representation according to Brutus and Publius"

14:30 - 17 Montesquieu’s most astute reader ? (Chair : Céline Spector)

14:30 Paul Cheney, Professor of History, The University of Chicago : "Terror and Revolution : Montesquieu and the American Founding in Arendt’s Political Philosophy"

15:30 Sharon Krause, Professor of Political Science, Brown University : "Montesquieu, Arendt, and the ’Constitutio Libertatis’ : Relational Power, Plural Freedom"

Thursday, 16 June 2022

9:30 - 12h30 The Oracle of Political Science (Chair : Paul Cheney)

9:30 Adam Lebovitz, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge : "The Transatlantic Turn Against Montesquieu, 1770-1815"

10:30 Michael Zuckert, Professor, University of Notre-Dame : "Anglophilia and the American Founding"

11:30 Pause

11:45 Odile Tourneux, PhD, ENS de Lyon : "Souveraineté et républiques fédératives"

15 - 17:30 The Modernities of Montesquieu(Chair : Hugo Toudic)

15 h Paul O. Carrese, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University : "A Defensible Liberal Republic : The Montesquieuan Foundations of American Foreign Policy"

16 h Jacob T. Levy, Professor of Political Science, McGill University : "An ancient constitution built from modern materials"

Friday, 17 June 2022

9:30 - 12 From Europe to America. And Back (Chair : Paul Cheney)

9:30 Luke Foster, PhD Candidate, The University of Chicago - University of Notre Dame : "Montesquieu’s Case for Honor in The Federalist : Transposing the Society of Orders to the Commercial Republic"

10:30 Nicolas Arens, Post Doctorant, UC Louvain : "From virtue to patriotism, from Europe to America, and back : When Tocqueville tests Montesquieu in America"

14 - 16:30 AMERICA 2026 Roundtable Chair : Patrick Spero

14 Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Professor of American History, University of Paris 8 : "Translating American State Constitutions into French (1780s-1790s). Lost in translation ?"

14:30 - 15 Iris de Rode, Research fellow, Mount Vernon : "Military Enlightenment on the Grounds - The French and American Independance."

15 - 15:30 Jean-Baptiste Goyard, PhD Candidate in History, University of Paris 8 : "The Small-Republic Thesis Before 1787 : An Anachronism ?""

15:30 - 16:30 Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director, American Philosophical Society : Conclusion of the Roundtable

16:30 Closing Speech

Robert Morissey, Professor of French Literature, The University of Chicago : "A l’ombre des Lumières. L’invention du discours victimaire dans les Lettres persanes"

17:15 Final Reception at the Sorbonne