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9:15-9:30
Anne Deneys-Tunney and Yves Charles Zarka, Opening Remarks

9:30-11:15: Man in Relation to Nature
Lucien Nouis (NYU), "Livre de la nature et livres des hommes"
Rudy Le Menthéour (Bryn Mawr), "A sort of Nature: Rousseau’s Theory of Approximation"
Pierre Saint-Amand (Brown University), "Late Botany: Rousseau's Vegetal Reverie"

11:30-1:15: Man in Relation to Himself
Guillemette Johnston (De Paul), "Amour-propre and amour de soi: Instinctive and Introverted Languages of Culture and Integration in the Educational Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
Masano Yamashita, (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Love as Habit in Rousseau"
Christophe Martin, (Université Paris IV, La Sorbonne), " 'La nature a tout fait mais sous ma direction': Nature and Supplement in La Nouvelle Héloïse"


2:30-4:15: Man in Relation to Others
Mira Morgenstern (The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending the Nature/Culture Dualism"
Robert Stam (NYU), "Rousseau and the Brazilian Indian: From Jean de Léry to Lévi-Strauss"
Paul Audi (Paris), "Rousseau's Ethical Freedom"
Anne Deneys-Tunney (NYU), "Is technology against nature?"

4:15- 6:30: Man in Relation to Power
Simon Critchley (The New School for Social Research), "Politics and Religion in 'The Social Contract' "
Pasquale Pasquino (NYU), "Rousseau’s Dictatorship – Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt"
Yves Charles Zarka (Sorbonne, Université Paris Descartes), "Le langage dans son rapport à la liberté et à la servitude chez Rousseau"

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