Day ONE: Thursday, April 4 (GC History Lounge, room 5114)
Introductions (3pm–3.30pm)
James Oakes: Welcome
Robert Huberty: “Jack Diggins as Teacher, Scholar and Friend”
Panel 1: Lost Souls of American Politics (3.30pm–5pm)
Chair: Evelyn Burg, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Steve Hayward, University of California at Berkeley: “On a Posthumous ‘Diggins School’ of Intellectual History”
James Livingston, Rutgers University: “On Diggins and the Soul of American Politics”
Richard Samuelson, Hillsdale College: “The Lost Soul of the Founding: The Adams Family v. the Ideologues”
First Keynote (5:15pm–6:30pm):
Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College: “On the History of Equality”
Introduced by Helena Rosenblatt, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Reception in the History Lounge: 6:30pm
DAY TWO: Friday, April 5 (The William P. Kelly Skylight, room 9111)
Coffee and a light breakfast offered in The Skylight Room, 8:30am–9:15am
Panel 2: The Oyster and the Pearl (9.15am–10:45am)
Chair: Martin Burke, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Claire Arcenas, University of Montana: “Origins Obscured: The Problem of the Thinker Adjective in Intellectual History”
Theo Christov, George Washington University: “Self-Determination: A Genealogy”
Arthur Ghins, Kings College, London: “What Was Liberal Democracy”
Panel 3: Why Biography Now? (11am–12:30pm)
Chair: D’Weston Haywood, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jacob Collins, College of Staten Island, CUNY: “Writing the Collective Subject: Political Autobiography in 1960s and 1970s Italy”
Alaina Morgan, University of Southern California: “Looking Past the Redacted: Methodology and Intellectual History through the Exemplary Case of Moammar al-Qaddafi and Louis Farrakhan”
Martin Woessner, City College, CUNY: “Terrence Malick: The Making of a Filmmaker”
Lunch break, 12:30pm–1:30pm
Panel 4: Liberalism and the Problem of Origins (1:30pm–3:30pm)
Chair: Anne Kornhauser, City College of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Alan Kahan, Université Paris-Saclay: “Origins of Liberalism”
Iain Stewart, University College London: “From Crisis to Hegemony: Postwar Liberalism Reconsidered”
Alexander Zevin, College of Staten Island: “Intertwined Origins of Socialism and Liberalism”
Panel 5: Memory and Rediscovery (3.45pm–4:45pm)
Chair: John Dixon, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Elsbeth Heaman, McGill University: “Provincializing Henry Adams”
Richard Whatmore, University of Saint Andrews: “Fanaticism, Enlightenment and the Origins of Intellectual History”
Closing Keynote (5pm–6:15pm):
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “The Passion of John Patrick Diggins: On Intellectual Temperament in History”
Introduced by Anne Kornhauser, City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY
