Rousseau Association Panels at 2008 ASECS
Portland, Oregon
March 27-30, 2008
Friday, March 28: 9:45-11:15 “Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles” – I
Chair: Byron R. WELLS, Wake Forest University
1. Christopher BERTRAM, University of Bristol, “Spectators versus
Citizens: Participation and Republican Solidarity in the Letter to
d’Alembert”
2. Melanie HOLM, Rutgers University, “Virtual Experience and Virtual
Fraternity: Rousseau’s Readerly Epistemology”
3. Ourida MOSTEFAI, Boston College, “Ecriture parisienne et écriture
genevoise dans la Lettre à d’Alembert”
4. Brigitte WELTMAN-ARON, University of Florida, “Truth and
Truthfulness in the Lettre to d’Alembert”
Friday, March 28: 4:15-5:45: “Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert sur les spectacles” – II
Chair: Byron R. WELLS, Wake Forest University
1. Fayçal FALAKY, New York University, “L’Utile et l’agréable in Julie:
Rereading the Lettre à d’Alembert through Rousseau’s Epistolary
Novel”
2. Angela HUNTER, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, “Invito
Spectatore: The Spectator and the Will to Love in the Lettre à
d’Alembert sur les spectacles”
3. Jeffrey LEICHMAN, Yale University, “Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s
Political Esthetics : Le Paradoxe du républicain”
4. James SWENSON, Rutgers University, “The Rural Community and the
City-State: On the Sociological Basis of Modern Republicanism”
Friday, March 28: 6:00-7:00: Business Meeting of the Rousseau Association
Rousseau Association Panels at 2005 ASECS
The Discours sur l’inégalité After 250 Years
Las Vegas, Nevada
March 31-April 3, 2005
Session 1 -: Rereading the Discours
Chair: Ourida Mostefai (Boston College, mostefai@bc.edu)
Jeremiah Alberg: “The Scandal of Origins” (State University of West Georgia, jalberg@westga.edu )
L. Rick Sorenson: “Who Does Rousseau Think He Is?” ( Assumption College, Genierick@aol.com)
Daniel Cullen: “Being a Citizen: From the Discours to the Social Contract” (Rhodes College, CULLEN@rhodes.edu )
Session 2 – The Influence of the Discours
Chair: Ourida Mostefai
Julia Simon: “On the Unpopularity of the Question of Inequality” (UC Davis, jsimon@ucdavis.edu)
Mira Morgenstern: “Rousseau and the Culture Wars: The Question of Inequality” (Kingsborough Community College, MiraMorgenstern@aol.com)
Wing Sze Leung: “Rousseau’s Ethics and His Theory of Nature” (University of Chicago, wleung@uchicago.edu)
