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SUMMARY:Common Sense at 250: Legacies of Democracy from Paine to Today
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn-person Registration Links \nFRIDAY\, JANUARY 9\, 2026 at the University of Sussex — In-person registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-sense-at-250-legacies-of-democracy-from-paine-to-today-tickets-1760714497459?aff=oddtdtcreator.   \nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10\, 2026 at Bull House\, Lewes — In-person registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/common-sense-at-250-legacies-of-democracy-from-paine-to-today-tickets-1769369715449?aff=oddtdtcreator.  (please note in-person registration is currently limited to conference presenters at this time\, virtual registration is open to all). \nSATURDAY\, JANUARY 10\, 2026 at the White Hart\, Lewes — In-person registration for the evening reception: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/common-sense-at-250-day-two-closing-reception-tickets-1838344390559?aff=oddtdtcreator.    \n*Please note that due to the historic nature of the buildings\, in-person registration capacity is limited for the sessions at Bull House on Saturday\, January 10\, and for the closing reception that evening at the Headstrong Room at the White Hart. Please  notify us if you are no longer able to attend so the spot may be opened to others on the waitlist.   \nConference Program\nFriday\, January 9\, 2026: The University of Sussex \nCoffee and tea: 9:00am- 9:30am  \nSponsored by the University of Sussex  \n  \nSession One: 9:30am – 11:00am   \n“Paine\, Commemoration\, and the Politics of Memory”  \nChair and Commentator: Scott Cleary   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2xSvh8BqTUKQ63NdnerNUw  \n\nJosh Dight\, “Common Sense as Cultural Memory in the radical ‘paper pantheon’\, 1831-1849”  \n\n\nLyne Hervey-Passée\, “Ink\, Imagination\, and Algorithm: Returning to Common Sense” (virtual) \n\n\nAnthony Kalume\, Title forthcoming\n\n\nRobert Wolff\, “America at 250: Historical Originalism\, Fractured Imagination\, and Public Memory”\n\n  \nSession Two: 11:15am – 12:45pm  \n“Paine and the Lasting Language of Revolution”  \nChair and Commentator: Michael Jonik \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d55nn8qWQ7SVYzWNjDjiBQ   \n\nLucas Barcos Rodrigues\, “From Swine to Citizens: The Radical Afterlives of Paine in the British Swinish Multitude” \n\n\nSilvia Guselli\, “Liberty Applied and Contested: Twain\, Callahan\, and the Ideological Afterlife of Paine’s Common Sense” \n\n\nCatherine Packham\, “‘Words of sound’: Common Sense\, Mary Wollstonecraft\, and Legacies for Political Speech” \n\n\nEmily Sneff\, ““Es ist jetzt unter der Presse”: German Translation in Philadelphia in 1776” (virtual) \n\n\nLunch break: 12:45pm – 2:15pm (on your own)   \n  \nSession Three: 2:30pm to 4:00pm  \n“Common Sense in Conversation: Influence and Authorship in the Atlantic World”  \nChair and Commentator: Liz Covart   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xr31hmB8Rzm9iy35ESacXQ   \n\nJon Chandler\, “Continental Republicanism: Paine\, Print\, and the Politics of Place\, 1775–1777″\n\n\nTom Cutterham\, “Common Sense\, Civil Liberty\, and the Transatlantic Revolutionary Tradition” \n\n\nAdam Lebovitz\, “Thomas Paine’s Maritime Imagination”  \n\n\nKaren Racine\, “The Cause of All Mankind: Thomas Paine and Spanish American Independence” \n\n  \nSession Four: 4:15pm to 5:45pm  \nPlenary with Greg Claeys: “Thomas Paine and the Three Revolutions that Weren’t”  \nChair and Commentator: Iain McDaniel  \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_49kf0Om2RgK_iuUknw3a-g   \n  \nReception: 5:45pm – 7:00pm  \nSponsored by the University of Sussex  \n  \nSaturday\, January 10th\, 2026: Bull House\, Lewes \nCoffee and tea: 8:30am- 9:00am  \nSponsored by the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University \n  \nSession Five: 9:00am – 10:30am  \n“A Template for Democracy: Common Sense and Civic Life”   \nChair and Commentator: Joseph Adelman  \n\nLeanne O’Boyle\, Common Sense and Public History \n\n\nNicole Mahoney\, Common Sense and Women’s and Gender History \n\n\nJeanne Sheehan Zaino\, Common Sense and Contemporary Politics  \n\nPlease note that this session includes a live recording for a special episode of the Ben Franklin’s world podcast that will be publicly available and there is no virtual option.  \n  \nSession Six: 10:45am – 12:15pm   \n“Common Sense and Evolving Democratic Institutions”   \nChair and Commentator: Emma Hart   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wWiilXotRq20KVbLmS5IqQ   \n\nSamuel Burry\, “Paine and Intergenerational Rights: From Common Sense to Agrarian Justice” \n\n\nDaniel Gomes de Carvalho\, “From Common Sense to Constitutional Balance: Thomas Paine and the Bicameral Turn after the French Revolution” (virtual)  \n\n\nColin Manton\, “Reform\, Radicalism\, and Reaction: Bright Politics\, 1832” \n\n\nDavid Williams\, “Democracy and the Two Times of Common Sense”  \n\n  \nLunch break: 12:15pm – 1:45pm (on your own)  \n  \nTour of the Town of Lewes: 1:45pm-2:15pm (please meet at the entrance to Bull House)  \n  \nSession Seven: 2:30pm – 4:00pm   \n“Revolutionary Legacies in Lewes”  \nChair and Commentator: Leanne O’Boyle   \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rnRk1eZSTR6Vh_qw7bxCFQ   \n\nDeborah Gage \nRebecca Stott \nPaul Myles \nBarbara Keal\n\n  \nSession Eight: 4:15pm to 5:45pm  \nKeynote with Danielle Allen\, “Thomas Paine: The Junius Years” \nChair and Commentator: Nora Slonimsky  \nVirtual registration: https://iona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_81-mpDJ1SjS9_vXD3rK3Aw   \n  \nReception: 6:00pm – 7:30pm  \nThe Headstrong Room at the White Hart  \nSponsored by the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University  \n  \nRead the Call for Papers here. \n  \nThis conference has been generously supported by the Lapidus Initiative for Early American Inquiry at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies\, the University of Sussex\, and Thomas Paine: Legacy. The contributions of these organizations play a vital role in advancing our understanding of Thomas Paine and the early Atlantic world in which he lived and worked.
URL:https://theitps.org/event/common-sense-at-250-legacies-of-democracy-from-paine-to-today/
LOCATION:Lewes and Sussex\, England and virtually via Zoom
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