10.00      Doors open - Registration

10.15      Welcome
               John O’Brien (Royal Holloway, London)
               The Vulnerable Text and Montaigne’s Essais                   

11.15      Coffee

11.45      Felicity Green (Trinity College, Cambridge)
               Montaigne, Xenophon and the Art of Self-Management

12.45      Lunch in the Institute Common Room

  2.00      Philippe Desan (University of Chicago)  
               The Science of Making Objections: Montaigne’s Socrates in the Light of the Religious Wars

  3.00      Peter Mack (Warburg Institute)
               Montaigne, Erasmus and the Praise of Folly

  4.00      Tea

  4.30      Margaret McGowan (University of Sussex)
               Amyot and Montaigne

  5.30      Close and Reception

 

Registration fee including lunch:  £12.00 (£8.00 concessions).    Early registration is recommended.  
Please contact Elizabeth.Witchell(at)sas.ac.uk