… Hunt (Amherst College) “The Lowest Degree of Freedom: The Right to Petition 1640-1800,” Mark Knights (University of … Michael McKeon (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) “Dissent, Candour, and Conversation: Watts, Godwin, and … Rogers (Yale University) “‘Sins of the fathers’: Religious Dissent and the Burdens of History in Eighteenth-Century …