9.30 – 10.00: Welcome – Accueil
Dr Ana de Medeiros, Director of University of Kent in Paris
10.00 – 11.45: Session 1: Defining Virtue
Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent), Liberty as a Right, or a Virtue: Revisiting an Enlightenment Dilemma
James Fowler (University of Kent), Towards Virtue: Public, Private and Moral Good in Shaftesbury and Diderot
Nicholas Treuherz (University of Manchester), Virtuous Atheism: Eighteenth-Century Afterlives of Bayle’s Argument
Donna Crossland (University of Kent),
An Introduction to the Category of ‘Religion’ and the Virtue it enforced
11.45-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.30: Session 2: Virtue in the City
Marie-Laure Legay (Université de Lille 3), ‘L’arithmétique corrompue’ : Loteries royales, morale chrétienne et vertu civique dans l’Europe des Lumières (1680-1790)
John Leigh (University of Cambridge), The Strange Virtue of Duellists
Nikolaos Karydis (University of Kent), Architectural Allegories of Vice and Virtue in the work of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicolas Ledoux
13.00 – 14.30: Lunch – Déjeuner
14.30 – 16.00: Session 3: The Virtue of ‘Légèreté’
Karen Manna (Loyola University of Maryland), Virtue and Satire: the Petit-maître and the Parody of Honnêteté
Ioana Galleron (Université de Bretagne-Sud), La Comédie de Mœurs au XVIIIe Siècle : Un Genre Obsolète dans un Siècle de la vertu?
Jean-Alexandre Perras (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford), Les Vertus du Frivole au XVIIIe Siècle
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break – Pause
16.30 – 18.00: Plenary Session:
Prof. Daniel Brewer (University of Minnesota), Virtue and the Ethics of the Virtual
20.00: Conference Dinner