Past RA Colloquia

_{2023. XXIIIrd Colloquium: “Le possible, le réel et l’idéal chez Rouseau / The Possible, the Real and the Ideal in Rousseau,” Sorbonne, Paris, June 1-3, 2023, organized by Johanna Lenne-Cornuez and Louis Guerpillon. See Program, Call for Papers, Conference Report, and a photo from the event.}

2019. XXIst Colloquium: “Rousseau and Aesthetic Experience: Art, Nature, Politics / Rousseau et l’expérience esthétique : Art, nature, politique,” Stockholm, Sweden, 6-9 June 2019, organized by Maria Gullstam & Dr Jennie Nell. RA 40th Anniversary
Final Program

The colloquium featured a staging of Rousseau’s Pygmalion and Le Devin du village at Confidencen (Ulriksdal Palace Theater), Sweden’s oldest rococo theater, a performance of some of Rousseau’s songs, a botanical stroll in the park, and an eighteenth-century dinner. The Keynote Speaker was Martin Rueff, Professor and director of the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Geneva and President of the Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Rousseau Association: Business Meeting 2019/ Assemblée générale 2019. Consult the Agenda here

Friday June 7th 2019 / vendredi 7 juin 2019, 16h30 – 18h

Here’s the Stockholm colloquium Call for Papers.
A longer version (English only) can be consulted here.
-Stage, Confidencen Theatre, Ulriksdal Palace, Stockholm
Creative Commons, Photographer: Holger Ellgaard.

2015. July 20th-22nd.
XIXth Biennial Colloquium (RA and International Adam Smith Society Joint Colloquium)
At the University of Glasgow (Scotland)
Organizer: Craig Smith, University of Glasgow.
Program, Abstracts, and Conference Report by Chris Bertram.

2012. December 13-15.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA: Tercentenary Conference held by the Colorado College and the Rousseau Association:
“The Enduring Challenge of Rousseau’s Thought”
“La pensée de Rousseau: un défi permanent”
At the Colorado College. Organiser: Prof. Eve Grace.
Call for papers here. Appel à communications ici.
Conference program here. Voir le programme du colloque ici.

2009. XVIth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association
Los Angeles, California, USA
25-27 June, 2009
Rousseau’s Legacies/ Fortunes de Rousseau
The Rousseau Association came to Los Angeles on the invitation of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. Twenty-four papers covered such topics as education, politics, nature, marginality, music, the self, and the influence of Rousseau on (among others) Adam Smith and Tolstoy. The congenial surroundings of UCLA also gave many opportunities for informal discussion and exchange.

2005. XIVth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
June 9-12, 2005
The Nature of the Reveries: A colloquium on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (1782)
The 2005 colloquium of the Rousseau Association, “The Nature of the Reveries,” brought 32 Rousseau scholars from across the US as well as from Canada, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Hong Kong to the beautiful campus of Hamilton College in upstate New York. In addition to hearing the 27 papers given in plenary session, attendees viewed a special exhibition presented at Hamilton’s Emerson Art Gallery entitled “Nature as Refuge: From Rousseau’s Cascade to Central New York’s Trenton Falls,” which used images of local natural wonders to illustrate the influence of Rousseau’s ideas, especially those found in The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, on the way people have regarded nature since the nineteenth century.