Location: Busch Hall map

	8:30 AM	Coffee
	8:45 AM	Greetings from the Director of the Center for European Studies, David Gordon Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History. Opening Remarks by Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
	Panel 1: 9:00-10:45 AM	The Mother of Us All: The French Revolution Chair: Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University, Professor, Director, Harvard University Library Pierre Serna, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, "Le comte de Montlosier ou comment être noble, de droite, et intelligent..." David Bell, Johns Hopkins University, "Beyond Furet: New Directions in French Revolutionary Historiography." Hannah Callaway, GSAS, Harvard University, "Camille Desmoulins’ Anti-Terroristic Jacobinism" Ron Schechter, College of William and Mary, "How the Terror got its Name: Semantic Origins of the Reign of Terror"
	10:45-11:00 AM	Coffee
	Panel 2: 11:00 -12:30 PM	Politics and Religion in Moral Action Chair: Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University Adrian Jones, LaTrobe University, "Reporting an Ottoman Gesture of Generosity, 1711." Joan Landes, Penn State University, "Condorcet's Legacy for Women' Rights/ Human rights" Jonathan F. Beecher, University of California, Santa Cruz "The Making and Unmaking of a Christian Bolshevik: The Soviet Years of Pierre Pascal"
	12:30-2:00 PM	Lunch
	Panel 3: 2:00-3:30 PM	Personal and Political: Medicine, Birth and Sex Chair: Kathleen Kete Mathew Ramsey, Vanderbilt University, "The ‘Citizen-Patient’ Revisited: Individualism, Communitarianism, and Health in the Sister Republics" Leonard Groopman, Weill Cornell Medical College, "The Foetus and the Eunuch: Rituals of Solidarity and Protest among Parisian Medical Interns" Judy Coffin, University of Texas at Austin, "The 'Interior Fortresses' of France: Menie Grégoire’s Radio Broadcasts, Social Science, and Sexuality"
	3:30-3:45 PM	Coffee Break
	Panel 4: 3:45-5:30 PM	The Politics of Moral Choices Chair: James Livesey Matt Maguire, Kenyon College, "Charles Péguy and the Crisis of Objective Culture" Leslie Choquette, Assumption College, "Franco-American Responses to French politics during World War II" Sarah Fishman, University of Houston, "Black and White or Grey? The Messiness of Everyday Life in France under the German Occupation 1940-44."
	5:30-6:30 PM	Reception
	Sunday May 31st
	8:00-8:30 AM	Coffee
	Panel 5: 8:30-10:00 AM	Politics and Intellectuals Chair: Hannah Callaway Kathleen Kete, Trinity College, "Genius and Politics: The Case of Mme de Staël" James Livesey, University of Sussex, "Intellectual Aristocracy: Ci-devants Think about Rights and Property" Daniel Sussner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, "Higonnet/Constant"
	10:00-10:15 AM	Coffee Break
	Panel 6: 10:15-12:00 AM	The Historical Context of Patrice Higonnet Chair: Sarah Fishman Arthur Goldhammer, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, "Divided Consciousness: A Pessimistic Pilgrim’s Progress." Craig Whitney, The New York Times, "Patrice Higonnet and the First Draft of History" Anne Higonnet, Barnard College, "My father’s silence."
	12:00-1:35 PM	Closing Lunch
	Sponsored by the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies.

Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nîmes, Lyons, and Paris--one of the leading scholars of the Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and rescues them from recent postmodernist condescension. Patrice Higonnet documents and analyzes the radical thought and actions of leading Jacobins and their followers. He shows Jacobinism's variety and flexibility, as it emerged in the lived practices of exceptional and ordinary people in varied historical situations. He demonstrates that these proponents of individuality and individual freedom were also members of dense social networks who were driven by an overriding sense of the public good. By considering the most retrograde and the most admirable features of Jacobinism, Higonnet balances revisionist interest in ideology with a social historical emphasis on institutional change. In these pages the Terror becomes a singular tragedy rather than the whole of Jacobinism, which retains value today as an influential variety of modern politics. Higonnet argues that with the recent collapse of socialism and the general political malaise in Western democracies, Jacobinism has regained stature as a model for contemporary democrats, as well as a sober lesson on the limits of radical social legislation. Get it on Amazon

Paris: Capital of the World In an original and evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II, Patrice Higonnet offers a delightful cultural portrait of a multifaceted, continually changing city. In examining the myths and countermyths of Paris that have been created and re-created over time, Higonnet reveals a magical urban alchemy in which each era absorbs the myths and perceptions of Paris past, adapts them to the cultural imperatives of its own time, and feeds them back into the city, creating a new environment. Paris was central to the modern world in ways internal and external, genuine and imagined, progressive and decadent. Higonnet explores Paris as the capital of revolution, science, empire, literature, and art, describing such incarnations as Belle Epoque Paris, the Commune, the surrealists' city, and Paris as viewed through American eyes. He also evokes the more visceral Paris of alienation, crime, material excess, and sensual pleasure. Insightful, informative, and gracefully written, Paris illuminates the intersection of collective and individual imaginations in a perpetually shifting urban dynamic. In describing his Paris of the real and of the imagination, Higonnet sheds brilliant new light on this endlessly intriguing city. Get it on Amazon

America Goes Backward, 2004 For nearly four centuries, religion and capitalism have been the central values of the American way. Most Americans have made of this national legacy a force of inclusion in a land shaped by successive waves of change and immigration. But others have chosen to define their nation's values by exclusion, within a Republic to be sure, but within a democratic polity that was also constrained by race, class, and gender. In consequence, America has often been deeply divided—as during its terrible Civil War—but it is also the only country in the world where Left and Right have had and still have so broad a common origin. Anticlericalism and anticapitalism, which are the cornerstones of European leftist thinking, have never secured a broad audience in the United States. Throughout the nation's history, unforeseen circumstances have often decided which of these two themes—inclusion or exclusion—will prevail. Hence the power of America's presidents to push their country toward either humane libertarianism—as did Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt during America's darkest hours—or toward racism, imperialism, and war—as did Jackson with the expulsion of the Cherokees, McKinley with the Philippines in 1898, and George W. Bush with the whole world today. Get it on Amazon

 

 

 

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