INTRODUCTION
Vincenzo Ferrone, Director of Studies of the Turin Humanities

LECTURES
The Legacy of the Enlightenment: The Rights of the Individual and the Rights of the Community, Vincenzo Ferrone
What is left of the Enlightenment? The Postcolonial critique of human rights, Céline Spector
Rights, Constitutions, and Liberalism, Dan Edelstein
Writing the History of Human Rights: Some Personal Reflections, Lynn Hunt
Digital Enlightenment at the Voltaire Foundation, Nicholas Cronk

JUNIOR FELLOWS
Rousseau’s Last Masterpiece: The Political Institutions of Poland, Graham Clure
Women engaged in Immediate Abolitionism: challenging exclusionist principles based on race and gender, Ariane Fichtl
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Politics of “modern History”, Tom Pye
Biological Mythmaking and the Power of Visual Embodiment, Brynne McBryde
The Rights of Man and the Burden of Women. Mind and Body in Eighteenth-Century Moral and Political Thought, Valentina Altopiedi
Naturalrightshistory.unito.it: the Historical Foundations of Human Rights, Alessandro Maurini
International Law and National Self-Determination. Globalizing Rights in the Nineteenth century, Giuseppe Grieco

PARTICIPANTS’ RESEARCH PROJECTS
The Relevance of Fair Laws in Classical and Modern Republicanism: Cicero and Machiavelli, Francisco J. Bellido Sánchez
Physiocracy, Bern and the Pays de Vaud. Eighteenth-century peripheral political economy in context, Auguste Bertholet
From the ‘Principle’ to the ‘Chart’. On the Concepts of People and Population in the Political Thought of T.R. Malthus and F. Place, Jacopo Bonasera
What Side of the News? The Reception of the French Revolution through the ‘Gazzetta di Bologna’ (1789-1796), Gabriele Caruso
Giving the Life for the Rights. Antonio Nariño, the Translation of the ‘Declaration of the rights of man’ and the Fight for the Independence of Colombia, Luis De la Peña
‘Under a wise prince it is not a crime to point out the defects of certain laws’: Political Economy and Freedom of Speech in Enlightenment Venice, Aris Della Fontana
The Constitutionalization of the Rights of Man in the Political theory of Condorcet, Gabriel Darriulat
Internet as a Human Right, Fabio Di Nunno
Kant and Cosmopolitanism: A Transitory and Asymptotic Ideal of Peace (as an Unrealisable Dream?), Ilaria Ferrara
‘The Otherness’: A Comparative Discourse on Volney’s Voyage and Alberto Pasini’s Memories of the Orient, Camilla Froio
The Duties of Man and the Citizen: the Enlightenment’s lost legacy, Samuel Harrison
The Origins of Civil Liberty and Civil Rights in Denmark-Norway in the Late Enlightenment, Jesper Lundsby Skov
Women and Enlightenment thought in the Iberian-American Criminal Legal Order (18th century), Vanessa Massuchetto
A Project of Political and Economic Reform of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth Developed between 1763 and 1768 by M. Mniszech and E. Bertrand, Radoslaw Szymanski