French Revolution 230 Years After - IPS

The conference is organized by the Institute for Political Studes and supported by the Ministry

of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

French Revolution 230 Years After

– A Critical View – October 14-15, 2019

Institute for Political Studies, BelgradeVenue: Krsmanovic House, Terazije 34, Belgrade

International Conference

Conference Program

Day 1 | Arrival of participants

11.30: Registration and Reception

Session I Dušan Dostanić moderator

12.30: Opening Remarks by Friedrich Romig (Wien)

12.50: Attila Károly Molnár (Budapest) – Who would conserve what?

13.25: Zoltán Petö (Budapest) – A liberal’s strange conversion: James Mackintosh’s counter-revolutionary turn

14.00: Henrik Hönich (Budapest) – Contexts of Hungarian Radicalism in Late 18th-Century Hungary

14.35: Coffee break

Session II Aleksandar Novaković moderator

14.50: Francesco Giubilei (Rome) – Italian Critique of the Revolution

15.25: Stefano Lo Re (St. Andrews) – Kant and the French revolution: can there be historical signs of moral progress

16.00: Christian Machek (Wien) – Hegel’s „egophanic revolt” and Voegelin’s critique

16.35: Gregor Schäfer (Basel) – Philosophy as Revolution. On Hegel’s Speculative Thinking of the (French) Revolution

17.30: Dinner

Day 2 | Continuation of the Conference

Session III Marko Pejković moderator

10.00: Thomas Flichy de La Neuville (Washington) – French Revolution and its interpretation

10.35: Julien Rochedy (Paris) – Similarities between the Enlightenment and Progressivism in terms of reasoning and psychology

11.10: Aleksandar Novaković (Belgrade) – The Slow-Burning Fuse of the Revolution

11.45: Coffee break

Session IV Aleksandar Novaković moderator

12.00: Milena Pešić (Belgrade) – The Man Who Ate Death – Borislav Pekic’s literary homage to de Tocqueville

12.35: Paola Gentile (Bordo) – Revolutionary Ideals from Raison to Domination

13.10: Dušan Dostanić (Belgrade)– German Romantics and the French Revolution

13.45: Coffee break and snacks

Session V Dušan Dostanić moderator

14.00: María Sánchez Castellanos (Madrid) – The Impact the American Revolution on the French Revolution

14.35: Marko Pejković (Belgrade) – Difference between the French Revolution and the Serbian and Greek national uprisings in the 19th century

15.10: Wrapping up and further plans

16.00: Lunch

Dates: 14-15 October 2019Host organisation: Institute for Political Studies, BelgradeOrganizers: Dušan Dostanić (IPS), Aleksandar Novaković (IPS), Marko Pejković (IPS)Venue: Krsmanovic House, Terazije 34, Belgrade

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French Revolution 230 Years After- A Critical View