Publications

Find recent scholarship pertaining to Rousseau from RA members here.

Check out this forthcoming volume following related RA at ASECS panels.

Frameworks of Time in Rousseau. Edited by Jason Neidleman and Masano Yamashita. Forthcoming with Routledge.

Below is the edited volume inspired by the RA Colloquium at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Silence, Implicite et Non-Dit chez Rousseau / Silence, the Implicit and the Unspoken in Rousseau. Edited by Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Ourida Mostefai, and Peter Westmoreland. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Announcements

RA Biennial Colloquium

The 23rd RA Colloquium on “Le possible, le réel et l’idéal chez Rousseau / The Possible, the Real and the Ideal in Rousseau” took place at the Sorbonne in Paris from June 1-3, 2023 under the co-direction of Johanna Lenne-Cornuez and Louis Guerpillon. Keynote speakers were Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University) and Christophe Martin (Sorbonne University). See here for additional details, as well as for information about past RA colloquia. Preparations for the 2025 RA Colloquium are now underway, with more details soon.

RA at ASECS

A Call for Proposals for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) 2024 Annual Meeting from April 4-6, 2024 in Toronto, Canada is now available. See here for a description of the 2024 RA at ASECS panel session on “Rousseau and the Dupins/Rousseau chez les Dupin,” as well as for a list of previous RA at ASECS panels. Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel through the ASECS Call for Proposals link between when the call for individual abstracts to sessions opens on August 1, 2023 and the September 15, 2023 due date.

RA Virtual Conversation Series

The Virtual Conversation Series is an online discussion for recent Rousseau scholarship that takes place several times over the course of the year. Alexandra Oprea will join us on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 11:00 am EST, Thierry Côté will speak on Rousseau as a reader of Dubos on Friday, November 17, 2023 at 10:30 AM EST, and Céline Spector and Johanna Lenne-Cornuez will present their book on Rousseau and Locke on Friday, January 26, 2024 (tentative). If you are a member of the Rousseau Association, check your inbox for details on the next event, and if you are interested in presenting at or moderating a conversation, please contact any member of the RA Executive Committee.

RA on Social Media

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Membership

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