5 th International Conference of the Mediterranean Society for the Study of Scottish Enlightenment
Tuesday, May 24 | |
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10:30-11:00 | Welcoming Session |
Sirin Tekinay (Işık University / Rector) Greeting and Opening Speech |
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Dionysis G. Drosos (University of Ioannina): Opening Remarks | |
Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): Opening Remarks | |
11:00-13:00 | 1st Session |
Chair: Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University) | |
Doğan Göçmen (Dokuz Eylül University): Enlightenment and Democracy: Ancient and Modern | |
Ioannis A. Tassopoulos (University of Athens): Hobbesian Reciprocity and the Discourse of Factionalism and Democracy in the Federalist Papers: Some Comments on the History of Impartiality | |
Dionysis G. Drosos (University of Ioannina): Modernity, Liberalism and the Lost Promise of Democracy | |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-16:00 | 2nd Session |
Chair: Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa): | |
Sam Fleischacker (University of Illinois-Chicago): Hume's and Smith's Worries about Democracy | |
Spyros Tegos (University of Crete): The Problem of Authority in David Hume and Adam Smith | |
Gökhan Murteza (Kırklareli University): Democracy and Education in Adam Smith | |
Gloria Vivenza (University of Verona): Adam Smith and Democracy | |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30-18:30 | 3rd Session |
Chair: Doğan Göçmen (Dokuz Eylül University): | |
Nir Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign): Comprehensive or Political Liberalism?: The Impartial Spectator and the Justification of Political Principles | |
Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University): Inequality and (Loss of) Freedom | |
Özlem Ünlü (Middle East Technical University): Rooting out Rousseauesque Conscience from the Unity of Reason | |
Wednesday, May 25 | |
11:00-12:30 | 4th Session |
Chair: Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University) | |
Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa): From "Republic of Letters" to "Democracy of Letters": The Ambivalent Transition of Europe's Translation-Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century | |
Yiftah Elazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Providential Enlightenment of Richard Price | |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-15:30 | 5th Session |
Chair: Dionysis G. Drosos (University of Ioannina): | |
Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University): Kant's Two Conceptions of Enlightenment | |
Christos Grigoriou (University of Crete): Schiller's Letters on Aesthetic Education. Republicanism and Democracy | |
Eylem Yolsal-Murteza (Kırklareli University): Democracy as the Dissolution of the Markers of Certainty and the Empty Place of Power | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-18:00 | 6th Session |
Chair: Sam Fleischacker (University of Illinois-Chicago): | |
Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University): Dreams and Nightmares: Moses Mendelssohn`s Battle for Religious Tolerance | |
Roberto Rodriguez Milan (Hellenic Open University): The Spanish Enlightenment and Democracy: From "Sinapia" to "La Pepa" | |
Örsan K. Öymen (Işık University): Atatürk, Democracy and the Turkish Enlightenment | |
Thursday, May 26 | |
11:00-18:00 | Visit to the Hagia Sophia, Basilica Cistern, Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace & Archeological Museum. |