The Enlightenment Lecture Programme 2012-13
Lectures to be held on Tuesday 10am in Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall B
Lecture notes and recordings are available from the CMR
Autumn Term
- 9 October - Introduction to the Enlightenment (Cathy Crawford)
- 16 October - Before the Enlightenment: the Aristotelian World View (David McNeill)
- 23 October - Print, Censorship and the History of Reading (James Raven)
- 30 October - Descartes' Discourse on Method (Alan Cardew)
- 06 November - The English Revolution (Amanda Flather)
- 07 November - FILM NIGHT - Cartesius - 2pm in room 6.106
- 13 November - Hobbes: Human Nature and the State (David McNeill)
- 20 November - Locke: In the Beginning all the World was America (Colin Samson)
- 27 November - Language and Knowledge in the Enlightenment (Peter Patrick)
- 04 December - Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Susan Oliver)
- 05 December - FILM NIGHT - Ridicule - 7pm in LTB 10
- 11 December - Voltaire, Candide (Susan Oliver)
Spring Term
- 15 January - Crime and Punishment in the Enlightenment (Cathy Crawford)
- 22 January - The Scottish Enlightenment (Alan Cardew)
- 29 January - The Conquest of Disease and the Enlightening of Charity (Cathy Crawford)
- 5 February - Religion in the Enlightenment (Tony Clohesy)
- 12 February - Hogarth: Marriage a la Mode (Lisa Wade)
- 19 February - Rousseau: Investigating Inequality (David McNeill)
- 26 February - Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence (Colin Samson)
- 5 March - Gender, Race, and Citizenship: the French and Haitian revolutions (Jane Hindley)
- 12 March - Burke and Paine (Michael Freeman)
- 19 March - Frankenstein: The Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment (Lisa Wade)
Summer Term
- 23 April - Revising the Enlightenment (Cathy Crawford)
- 30 April - Kant: ‘What is Enlightenment?’ (Peter Dews)
For questions for discussion each week see Discussion Questions