LONDON RENAISSANCE SEMINAR

Tolerance and Intolerance.

Organiser: Dr Eliane Glaser

Room 101, Birkbeck College, Department of English and Humanities, 30 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Saturday, 13 October
2-5.00pm

Tolerance is frequently cited as a core British value in contemporary political rhetoric, but the historical origins of the idea are not widely known. This symposium will explore conceptions and genealogies of toleration both inside and outside the academy. Were 17th-century tolerationists idealistic or pragmatic? In what ways is toleration concerned with the relationship between public and private; church and state? Who is to be tolerated, and who isn't?

2pm: Welcome; Blair Worden (Oxford), John Milton and Religious Liberty

2.40: Justin Champion (Royal Holloway), Private is in Secret Free: Hobbes, Locke and Bayle on the Limits of Toleration, Atheism and Heterodoxy

3.20: Susan Menus (York), Religious Toleration: John Locke versus John Rawls

4pm: Tea

4.30-5pm: Questions, discussion and close

The London Renaissance Seminar meets regularly to discuss the literature, history and culture of the period 1500-1700. For further information, or to join the e-list contact t.healy@bbk.ac.uk. For further information about this event please contact elianeglaser@hotmail.com.