PLENARY SESSION I: THURSDAY, 9 OCTOBER, 7:30 - 8:30 PM
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| Topic: Collaborative Research |
Chair:
Bettina Koch |
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Political Science |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Karen Bollermann |
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English |
Arizona State University |
| Cary Nederman |
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Political Science |
Texas A&M University |
| Sanford G. Thatcher |
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Pennsylvania State University Press |
Pennsylvania State University |
| J. Donald Moon |
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Government and Social Studies |
Wesleyan University |
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SESSION I: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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| A. Plato and Public Life |
Chair:
Khalil Habib |
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Philosophy |
Salve Regina University |
| Mark Brouwer |
“Reason Law and Authority in Plato's Crito” |
Philosophy and Religion |
Wabash College |
| Andrew Franz |
“Euthyphro and the Limits of Justice” |
Behavioral Sciences |
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg |
| Joel Schlosser |
“Socratic Engagement Today” |
Political Science |
Duke University |
Discussant:
Cary Nederman |
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Political Science |
Texas A&M University |
| B. Political Epistemology |
Chair:
Peter Stone |
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Political Science |
Stanford University |
| Alex Schulman |
“The Lost Treasure of the Liberal Tradition |
Political Science |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| Ryan W. Davis |
“Surveying Justice: Right and Wrong Reasons” |
Politics |
Princeton University |
| Piers Norris Turner |
“Mill's Social Epistemic Liberalism” |
Philosophy |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Simona Goi |
“Recognition Unbound: Against a Politics of Certainty” |
Political Science |
Calvin College |
Discussant:
Michael Morrel |
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Political Science |
University of Connecticut |
| C. Political Participation, Contestation, and Transformation |
Chair:
Vince Jungkunz |
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Political Science |
Ohio University |
| Roudy Hildreth |
“Unlikely Allies: Hannah Arendt and John Dewey on the Renewal of the Public” |
Political Science |
Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| James Ingram |
“How (and How Not) to Argue for Radical Democracy” |
Political Science |
McMaster University |
| Alisa Kessel |
“We Are Not Our Fathers: Democracy and Foundational Authority” |
Politics and Government |
University of Puget Sound |
| David McIvor |
“Mourning in America: Democracy and the Work of Mourning” |
Political Science |
Duke University |
Discussant:
Derek Barker |
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Kettering Foundation |
| D. Theories of Political Identity and Patriotism |
Chair:
Reidar Maliks |
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Political Science |
Harvard University |
Paulina Ochoa Espejo
&
Thomas J. Donahue
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“What Is a People?” |
Political Science
Ethics, Politics, and Economics |
Yale University
Yale University |
| Lydia Moland |
“Patriotism and Political Concern” |
Philosophy |
Colby College |
| Christopher Robinson |
“Wittgenstein and Citizenship: Reading Socrates in Tehran” |
Humanities and Social Sciences |
Clarkson University |
Discussant:
Lisa Ellis |
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Political Science |
Texas A&M University |
| E. Rights and Revolutions |
Chair:
Bryant "Tip" Ragan |
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History |
The Colorado College |
| Eileen Hunt Botting |
“Inventing the Language and Logic of Women's Rights Discourse: Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman” |
Political Science |
University of Notre Dame |
| Jeffrey Langan |
"The Enduring Tensions of the French Revolution" |
Philosophy
Social Sciences |
University of Notre Dames
Holy Cross College |
| Dennis Rasmussen |
“Philosophes contra Foundationalism: A Separate Road to Modernity?” |
Political Science |
University of Houston |
| Kathy Ferguson |
“Bush in Drag: Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Endless War” |
Political Science |
University of Hawaii |
Discussant:
Craig Hanks |
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Philosophy |
Texas State University - San Marcos |
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SESSION II: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
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| A. Sovereignty and International Relations |
Chair:
Barbara R. Cruikshank |
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Political Science and Women’s Studies |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Craig Borowiak |
“Disrupting Global Governance: Accountability and the Politics of Insurgence” |
Political Science |
Haverford College |
| Jessica Flanigan |
“Childlike States” |
Politics |
Princeton University |
| Jeppe von Platz |
“Grotius on Justice, Legitimacy, and Political Obligation” |
Philosophy |
University of Pennsylvania |
Discussant:
Jeanne Morefield |
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Politics |
Whitman College |
| B. Violence and Political Judgment |
Chair:
Ann Davies |
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Political Science
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Beloit College |
| Elisabeth Anker |
“Refusing Urgency: Post 9/11 Politics and the Deferral of Action” |
American Studies |
George Washington University |
| Yves Winter |
“Political Theory and the Logos of Violence” |
Rhetoric |
University of California, Berkeley |
| J. Christopher Paskewich |
“Old Wine with a New Bottle: Theory, Practice, and the Left's Rehabilitation of Vladimir Lenin” |
Political Science |
University of Connecticut |
Discussant:
Dustin Howes |
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Political Science |
Louisiana State University |
| C. Trust and Faith in Locke's Political Thought |
Chair:
Peter Josephson |
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Politics |
Saint Anselm College |
| Doug Casson |
“Coins, Words, and the Unstable Currency of Liberalism” |
Political Science |
St. Olaf College |
Joanne Tetlow
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“Locke's Covenant Theology and the Political Compact of the Second Treatise of Government” |
Political Theory |
Independent Scholar |
| Emily C. Nacol |
“The Risks of Authority: Trust, Knowledge and Political Agency in John Locke’s Second Treatise” |
Political Theory Project |
Brown University |
| Elizabeth Pritchard |
“Locke's Political Theology” |
Religion |
Bowdoin College |
Discussant:
Ruth Groff |
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Political Science |
Saint Louis University |
| D. Morality, Motivation, and Civic Education |
Chair:
Rachel Seher |
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Political Science and Women’s Studies |
DePaul University |
Ian MacMullen |
“Lessons in the Law: Shaping Children's Attitudes to Political Authority” |
Political Science |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| H. M. Roff |
“Provisional to Perfect: A Kantian Duty of Humanitarian Intervention” |
Political Science |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Annika Thiem |
“These Urgently Dark Times: Walter Benjamin and the Moralism of Perpetual Urgency” |
Philosophy |
Villanova University |
Discussant:
Paul Cornish |
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Political Science |
Grand Valley State University |
| E. Public Discourse, Political Participation, and Virtue |
Chair:
Harvey Brown |
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Political Science |
University of Western Ontario |
| Anand Commissiong |
“Cosmopolitan Virtues” |
Political Science |
University of Missouri |
Kristy King |
“Pufendorf’s Legacy: Sociability and Self-Interest in Adam Smith's Individual” |
Politics |
Whitman College |
| Kate Moran |
“Public Participation and Moral Reasoning in Kant” |
Philosophy |
Brandeis University |
Discussant:
Patricia Boling |
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Political Science |
Purdue University |
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SESSION III: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
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| A. International Justice, Cosmopolitanism and Non-State Actors |
Chair:
Dennis McEnnerney |
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Philosophy |
The Colorado College |
| Lars Rensmann |
“Cosmopolitanism under Non-Ideal Conditions: Habermasian Norms, Jurisgenerative Politics, and Democracy beyond the Nation-State” |
Political Science |
University of Michigan |
| Brodi Kemp |
“Global Distributive Justice and the Role of Nongovernmental Organizations” |
Government |
Harvard University |
| Michael Buckley |
“The Logics of Global Distributive Justice” |
Philosophy |
City University of New York |
Discussant:
Mark Rigstad |
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Philosophy |
Oakland University |
| B. Conflict and Strategy in Machiavelli's Thought |
Chair:
Bettina Koch |
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Political Science |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| John P. McCormick |
“Prophetic Statebuilding: Machiavelli and the Passion of the Duke” |
Political Science |
University of Chicago |
| Waldemar Hanasz |
“Machiavelli’s Art of Theoretical Modeling” |
Philosophy |
University of Massachusetts Lowell |
Discussant:
Michelle Clark |
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Government |
Dartmouth College |
| C. Liberalism after Rawls |
Chair:
Johnny Goldfinger |
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Political Science |
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Jennifer Baker |
“Stoicism and Political Liberalism” |
Philosophy |
College of Charleston |
| Michael Kates |
“Justice in Nonideal Theory” |
Politics |
New York University |
| David Thunder |
“The Virtues of Public Reason Reconsidered: Steering a Path Between Dogmatic and Libertine Ideals” |
James Madison Program |
Princeton University |
Discussant:
Joshua Preiss |
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Political Science |
Bucknell University |
| D. Religion and Legitimacy in the Liberal State |
Chair:
Matthew Waggoner |
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Philosophy |
Albertus Magnus College |
| Corey Brettschneider |
“A Transformative Account of Religious Freedom” |
Political Science |
Brown University |
| Jon Mahoney |
“Secular Reasons, Political Legitimacy and the Rule of Law” |
Philosophy |
Kansas State University |
Daniel Betti &
Peyton Wofford |
“Why Is MacIntyre Not a Liberal? The Rebuke of G.K. Chesterton” |
Political Science |
Texas A&M University |
| Simon Cabulea May |
“Religious Democracy and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy” |
Philosophy |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Discussant:
Alexander Moon |
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Politics |
Ithaca College |
| E. Political Struggle and Change |
Chair:
Maurice Meilleur |
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Political Science |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Giunia Gatta |
“Violence, Struggle, Responsibility: Making and Unmaking the Presence of Others” |
Political Science |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| George Ciccariello-Maher |
“Symbolic Decolonial Violence from Fanon to Chávez” |
Political Science |
University of California, Berkeley |
| John Nelson |
“Populism and Perfectionism as Political Styles: Movements in Popular Cultures” |
Political Science |
University of Iowa |
Discussants:
Vicki Hsueh |
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Political Science |
Western Washington University |
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PLENARY SESSION II: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOMBER, 5:50 - 7:05 PM
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| Topic: Politics without Politics |
Chair:
Clarissa Hayward |
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Political Science |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| Jodi Dean |
"Politics without Politics" |
Political Science |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
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SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM
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| A. Historiography, Republicanism, and Revolutions |
Chair:
Thomas Dumm |
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Political Science |
Amherst College |
| Aziz Rana |
“Settler Revolt and the Foundations of American Republicanism” |
Law |
Yale University |
| Daniela Cammack |
“Marx, Engels and the French Revolution'” |
Government |
Harvard University |
Alex Gourevitch &
Ian Zuckerman |
“In the Shadow of Republican Foundations” |
Political Science |
Columbia University |
| Lisa Disch |
“How Could Hannah Arendt Glorify the American Revolution and Revile the French? Placing On Revolution in the Historiography of the French and American Revolutions” |
Political Science and
Women's Studies |
University of Michigan |
Discussant:
Stefan Dolgert |
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Political Science |
Williams College |
| B. Environmental Theory: Consumption and Conservation |
Chair:
Peter F. Cannavò |
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Government |
Hamilton College |
| Cheryl Hall |
“Freedom, Sacrifice, and Environmental Sustainability” |
Government and International Affairs |
University of South Florida |
| Michael Nordquist |
“Food Networks: Reconfiguring Human-Nonhuman Political Action through Alimentary Practices” |
Political Science |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Chad Lavin |
“Morgan Spurlock Makes Me Sick: Responsibility and Disease in Obesity Politics” |
Political Science |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Steve Vanderheiden |
“Intergenerational Cosmopolitanism: Maintaining Justice along Two Dimensions” |
Political Science |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
Discussant:
Teena Gabrielson |
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Political Science |
University of Wyoming |
| C. Power, Identity, Narrative |
Chair:
John Seery |
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Politics |
Pomona College |
| Christopher Lebron |
“A Historical Tale of Power, Structure, Race, and Contemporary Racial Disadvantage” |
Political Science |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
University of Virginia |
| Melvin Rogers |
“The Limits of Sympathy: Du Bois, Tocqueville and the Habits of Race Prejudice” |
Politics |
University of Virginia |
| Marek Steedman |
“Wards of the Nation: Southern Progressive Tutelage of the Races (1900-1920)” |
Political Science |
University of Southern Mississippi |
Discussant:
Clarissa Hayward |
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Political Science |
Washington University |
| D. Liberalism and Its Critics |
Chair:
Beverly Gaddy |
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Political Science |
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg |
| William Byrne |
“Unnatural Rights: Anti-Natural Rights Liberalism in Burke and Sumner” |
Government and Politics |
St. John's University |
| Maria Kowalski |
“International Justice and Agency: Hegel’s Reply to Rawls” |
Political Science |
Columbia University |
| Joan Cocks |
“Liberalism and the Politics of Violent Indignation: The Fanonian Response to Hobbes” |
Politics |
Mount Holyoke College |
| Pablo Muchnik |
“A Case Study of Rorty's Anti-Kantianism” |
Philosophy |
Siena College |
Discussant:
Monique Deveaux |
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Political Science |
Williams College |
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SESSION V: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
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| A. Justice, Freedom, Rights |
Chair:
Laura Roost |
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Political Science |
University of Nebraska |
| Jeff Noonan |
“The Authority of Social Criticism: Its Source and Implications” |
Philosophy |
University of Windsor |
| Pablo Gilabert |
“Justice and Feasibility in the Capability Approach to Human Rights” |
Philosophy |
Concordia University |
| Daniel Brudney |
“Marx's New Man” |
Philosophy |
University of Chicago |
| Monica Judith Sanchez Flores |
“Liberal Multiculturalism and the Problems of Difference in the Canadian Experience” |
History |
Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico |
Discussant:
Frank Lovett |
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Political Science |
Washington University in St. Louis
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| B. Political Psychology / Anthropology |
Chair:
Bryan Garsten |
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Political Science |
Yale University |
| Jeremy Bendik-Keymer |
“The Earth within the City” |
Philosophy |
Le Moyne College |
| Christopher Anderson |
“Emotion, Autonomy, and Moral Education” |
Politics and Government |
University of Hartford |
James E. Block
&
Isis Leslie
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“Marcuse and the Tradition of Romantic Possibility” |
Political Science
Honors College |
DePaul University
Texas Tech University |
Discussant:
Winifred L. Amaturo |
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Public Policy |
New York University |
| C. Marriage, Family, Care |
Chair:
Erin Taylor |
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Political Science |
Western Illinois University |
| Hollie Sue Mann |
“Ruling Unruly Bodies: The Problem of Political Personhood for an Embodied Theory of Care” |
Political Science |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Philip Michelbach |
“Hegel's Philosophy of Right and the Missing Concept of the Family” |
Political Science |
West Virginia University |
| Susanne Sreedhar |
“Thomas Hobbes as Feminist?” |
Philosophy |
Boston University |
Discussant:
Julie White |
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Political Science |
Ohio University |
| D. Capitalism and Its Critics |
Chair:
Kevin W. Gray |
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Philosophy |
Marist College |
| Ivan Ascher |
“The Power of Branding: Karl Marx on the Making of the Working Class” |
Political Science |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Richard Gilman-Opalsky |
“Why Political Theory and Action Need Guy Debord: Reconsidering Situationist Praxis” |
Political Studies |
University of Illinois at Springfield |
| Claire Goldstene |
“Recovering the Radicalism of Booker T. Washington and Samuel Gompers” |
History |
University of Maryland, College Park |
| William S. Lewis |
“What Makes Social Theory Critical: A Defense of Historical Materialist Assumptions in Social Scientific Research” |
Philosophy and Religion |
Skidmore College |
Discussant:
Peter Breiner |
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Political Science |
University at Albany, SUNY |
| E. Law, Institutions, and the State |
Chair:
Alisa Rosenthal |
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Political Science
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Gustavus Adolphus College |
| Howard Lubert |
"Pork Still, with a Little Change of the Sauce: Alexander Hamilton's Plan for a Federal Union" |
Political Science |
James Madison University |
| Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli |
“The State as Association” |
Political Science and Law |
McGill University |
Delia Alexandru Popescu
(Nadia Kaneva, coauthor)
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“Post-Communism and Nation Branding: Romania and Bulgaria” |
Political Science
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LeMoyne College
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| Andrew Sepielli |
“The Burdens of Law and the Unfairness of Morality” |
Philosophy |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick |
Discussant:
Christopher Zurn |
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Philosophy |
University of Kentucky |
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SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 3:30- 5:30 PM
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| A. Race and Justice: Reform Liberalism or Reject It? A Roundtable |
Chair:
Hawley Fogg-Davis |
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Political Science |
Temple University |
| Charles W. Mills |
“Racial Contract and Domination” |
Philosophy |
Northwestern University |
| Paul Gomberg |
“How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice” |
Philosophy |
Chicago State University |
| Neil Roberts |
“Race and Justice: Reform Liberalism or Reject It?” |
Africana Studies and Political Science |
Williams College |
| Sally Haslanger |
“Race, Gender and Structural Injustice” |
Linguistics and Philosophy |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| B. Uses of History |
Chair:
Cary Nederman |
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Political Science |
Texas A&M University |
| Avery Plaw |
“Genius, Identity Conflict and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin's History of Ideas and the Normative Case for Pluralism” |
Political Science |
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| Kenneth B. McIntyre |
“The Past is a Foreign Country: Butterfield’s Critique of Whig History and the Study of Political Thought” |
Political Science |
Concordia University |
| Megan C. Thomas |
“Orientalism in Modern European Political Thought” |
Politics |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Discussant:
David Shikiar |
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Philosophy |
Providence College |
| C. Freedom and Political Judgment in Democratic Politics |
Chair:
Amy L. Shuster |
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Political Science |
University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| David Leitch |
“Democratic Judgment in Little Rock: Arendt, Ellison, and Lev Vygotsky on Enlarged Mentality” |
Political Science |
University of California, San Diego |
| Reuven Shlozberg |
“When Ricoeur Met Arendt: Judgment at the Crossroads of Selfhood and Otherness” |
Political Science |
University of Toronto |
| Matthew Voorhees |
“Musical Pluralism: Popular Music and American Political Identities” |
Politics |
Whitman College |
Discussant:
Jonathan Havercroft |
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Political Science |
University of Oklahoma |
| D. (Mis)Representation and (Il)legitimacy |
Chair:
Nancy L. Schwartz |
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Government |
Wesleyan University |
| Michael Nance |
“Constraints on the General Will: Rousseau and Kant" |
Philosophy |
University of Pennsylvania |
| Joel Parker |
“Randomness and Representative Legitimacy” |
Government |
The University of Texas at Austin |
| Andrew Rehfeld |
“Post-hoc Accountability and Non-elected Representation” |
Political Science |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| Ed Wingenbach |
“Representation, Identity, and Manipulation in Agonistic Theories of Democracy” |
Government |
University of Redlands |
Discussant:
Anna Stilz |
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Politics |
Princeton University |
| E. Beyond Reason: The Politics of Beauty, Love, and Pain |
Chair:
Sharon Krause |
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Political Science |
Brown University |
| Cristina Beltran |
“Performing Unity: Walt Whitman, Immigrant Action, and the Democratic Sublime” |
Political Science |
Haverford College |
| Barbara Koziak |
“The Power of Love: Romance, Marriage, and Brokeback Mountain” |
Government and Politics |
St. John's University |
| Delia Alexandru Popescu |
“The Memory of Pain: The Lessons of Anti-Communist Resistance in Romania” |
Political Science |
LeMoyne College |
| J. Maggio |
“The Problem of 'Aesthetic Individualism' as an Ethical and Political Theory: Alain Badiou, Pyrrhonism, and The Beatles” |
Political Science |
University of Florida |
Discussant:
Robyn Marasco |
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Political Science |
Williams College |
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BUSINESS MEETING: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 5:45 - 7:15 PM
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