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Friday, September 30th - Beinecke Library
8:30 a.m. Coffee, tea, pastries
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Panel 1, Chair: Jennifer Pitts,
Princeton University
- Tocqueville's Journey Revisited: What Was Striking and
New in America
James Schleifer, College of New Rochelle
- The Reception of Tocqueville's Work
in Twentieth-Century Italian Intellectual and Political Circles
Fréderic
Attal, Université d’Orléans
Commentator: Alan
Kahan, Florida International University
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 p.m., Panel 2, Chair: Bryan Garsten,
Yale University
- The Rhetoric of Hope and Fear in Tocqueville's
Democracy
Arthur Goldhammer, Center for European Studies,
Harvard University
- Tocqueville as a Writer
Laurence Guellec, Université de Poitiers
Commentator: Steven
Smith, Yale University
2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Panel 3, Chair: Gerard Gengembre,
University of Caen
4:00 p.m. Keynote Address by Robert Dahl, Yale University
Political Equality in America: Tocqueville and Today
Followed by general reception and opening of
exhibition:
Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, and the
Challenge of Nineteenth-Century Democracy
Saturday, October 1st - Beinecke Library
8:45 a.m. Coffee, tea, pastries
9:15 - 10:45 a.m., Panel 4, Chair: Olivier Zunz, University of Virginia
- Tocqueville and Abolition: Slaves,
Subjects, Souls, Citizens
Cheryl Welch, Simmons College
- Democracy as a Counter-Revolutionary Strategy in Tocqueville
Stephen
Holmes, New York University
Commentator: Robert Gannett, Independent Scholar
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 p.m., Panel 5, Chair: Theodore Caplow,
Tocqueville Society
- Tocqueville's Blind Spot: Political Contestations under
the Old Regime
Keith Baker, Stanford University
- Tocqueville European: France and Germany
Françoise
Mélonio, Université de Paris-IV-Sorbonne
- La démocratie au risque de son armée -
Talk to be given in French
Jean-Louis Benoit, Lycée de Saint Lô (Classes préparatoires
aux grandes écoles)
Commentator: Simon Langlois, University of Laval
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