”Woman and Religion”
Abstract:
This paper explores the connections made between religion and women by French secularizers in the 19th century as a way of understanding the effects of what Max Weber called “disenchantment.” It asks how differences of sex figured in anti-clerical writings (particularly those of Jules Michelet). And it argues that the conflation of women [...]

 
7 & 8 May 2013, San Domenico di Fiesole, Villa La Fonte, Conference Room
Every year the Max Weber Programme holds an annual “Classics Revisited” conference in which a particular theme or a figure or text from the Western canon is examined from diverse disciplinary perspectives.

Past topics have included David Hume on norms and institutions, Karl [...]

Joint conference by NYU-Florence/NYU Liberal Studies and the Max Weber Programme, EUI
April 9 & 10 2013:
Tuesday 9 (Villa la Pietra (NYU) and Wednesday 10 (Villa la Fonte (MWP)
Organizers: Simon Jackson, MWP/EUI and Brendan Hogan NYU-Florence
Voter ID laws and a creaking Electoral College in the United States, street protests against a democratic deficit in Brussels, Rome [...]