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A ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ORGANIZED BY

THE TOCQUEVILLE PROGRAM AT INDIANA UNIVESITY,

IN COLLABORATION WITH

THE WORKSHOP IN POLITICAL THEORY AND POLICY ANALYSIS, THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND LIBERTY FUND, INC.

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HIS WORKS

March 5, 2010

IU Memorial Union
Indiana University, Bloomington

All meetings are scheduled to take place in the IU Memorial Union, Walnut Room.

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010:

Afternoon: Arrival of participants at the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel

6:30                Dinner  (Lennie’s)

Friday, March 5, 2010:

9:15-9:30:       Mike McGinnis (IUB): Welcoming remarks: Tocqueville and the Workshop in Political Theory

Aurelian Craiutu (IUB): Opening remarks: The Tocqueville Program at Indiana University

9:30–10:45    Roundtable on the Liberty Fund critical bilingual edition of Democracy in America

Moderator: Aurelian Craiutu

PANELISTS: Eduardo Nolla (Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid), James T. Schleifer (College of New Rochelle), Christine D.  Henderson (Liberty Fund, Inc): Editing, translating, and publishing Democracy in America

10:45–11       Break

11–12:15       Open discussion: The relevance of the Liberty Fund critical edition for the Tocqueville studies.

Moderator: Barbara Allen (Carleton College)

Panelists: Eduardo Nolla, James T. Schleifer

12:15-1.30     Lunch (for panelists): Tudor Room, IU Memorial Union

1:45–3:15      Roundtable Discussion on Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Moderator: Russell Hanson (IUB)

Panelists: Aurelian Craiutu (IUB) and Jeremy Jennings (Queen Mary, University of London)

3:15-3:30       Break

3:30-5:00       Roundtable Discussion on Conversations with Tocqueville (Lexington Books, 2009)

Moderator: Filippo Sabetti (McGill University)

Panelists: Barbara Allen (Carleton College), Reiji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Tokyo), Filippo Sabetti (McGill University)

6:30                Dinner (Samira Restaurant)

Saturday, March 6, 2010:

Breakfast and departure at the participants’ convenience.

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The new Tocqueville program at IU is sponsored by the Jack Miller Center in Philadelphia. For further related events, please see http://www.indiana.edu/~tcqville/

The Liberty Fund bilingual Democracy in America is the fullest historical-critical edition of the Democracy. It includes Eduardo Nolla’s historical-critical edition of the French text and notes on the left-hand pages and James Schleifer’s new English translation on the right. The notes offer an extensive selection of early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials. Features include a translator’s note, list of key terms, foreword, twenty-one illustrations, editor’s introduction, footnotes, appendixes, all works known to have been used by Tocqueville, a bibliography, and French and English indexes.