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2008 - WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

9-12 October 2008, Middletown, Connecticut
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PLENARY SESSION I: THURSDAY, 9 OCTOBER, 7:30 - 8:30 PM
  
Topic: Collaborative Research
Chair:
Bettina Koch
Political Science Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Karen Bollermann   English Arizona State University
Cary Nederman   Political Science Texas A&M University
Sanford G. Thatcher   Pennsylvania State University Press Pennsylvania State University
J. Donald Moon   Government and Social Studies Wesleyan University
     
SESSION I: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  
A. Plato and Public Life
Chair:
Khalil Habib
  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
  Political Science Texas A&M University
B.  Political Epistemology
Chair:
Peter Stone
  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
  Political Science University of Connecticut
C.  Political Participation, Contestation, and Transformation
Chair:
Vince Jungkunz
  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
    Kettering Foundation
D.  Theories of Political Identity and Patriotism
Chair:
Reidar Maliks
  Political Science Harvard University
Paulina Ochoa Espejo
    &
Thomas J. Donahue

“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
  Political Science Texas A&M University
E.  Rights and Revolutions
Chair:
Bryant "Tip" Ragan
  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
  Philosophy Texas State University - San Marcos
     
SESSION II: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
  
A.  Sovereignty and International Relations
Chair:
Barbara R. Cruikshank
  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
  Politics Whitman College
B.  Violence and Political Judgment
Chair:
Ann Davies
  Political Science
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
  Political Science  Louisiana State University
C.  Trust and Faith in Locke's Political Thought
Chair:
Peter Josephson
  Politics Saint Anselm College
Doug Casson “Coins, Words, and the Unstable Currency of Liberalism” Political Science St. Olaf College
Joanne Tetlow
“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
  Political Science Saint Louis University
D.  Morality, Motivation, and Civic Education
Chair:
Rachel Seher
  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
  Political Science  Grand Valley State University
E.  Public Discourse, Political Participation, and Virtue
Chair:
Harvey Brown
  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
  Political Science Purdue University
     
SESSION III: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
  
A.  International Justice, Cosmopolitanism and Non-State Actors
Chair:
Dennis McEnnerney
  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
  Philosophy  Oakland University
B.  Conflict and Strategy in Machiavelli's Thought
Chair:
Bettina Koch
  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
  Government Dartmouth College
C.  Liberalism after Rawls
Chair:
Johnny Goldfinger
  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
  Political Science Bucknell University
D.  Religion and Legitimacy in the Liberal State
Chair:
Matthew Waggoner
  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
  Politics Ithaca College
E.  Political Struggle and Change
Chair:
Maurice Meilleur
  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
  Political Science Western Washington University
     
PLENARY SESSION II: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOMBER, 5:50 - 7:05 PM
  
Topic: Politics without Politics
Chair:
Clarissa Hayward
  Political Science Washington University in St. Louis
Jodi Dean "Politics without Politics" Political Science Hobart and William Smith Colleges
     
SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM
  
A.  Historiography, Republicanism, and Revolutions
Chair:
Thomas Dumm
  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
  Political Science Williams College
B.  Environmental Theory: Consumption and Conservation
Chair:
Peter F. Cannavò
  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
  Political Science  University of Wyoming
C.  Power, Identity, Narrative
Chair:
John Seery
  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
  Political Science Washington University
D.  Liberalism and Its Critics
Chair:
Beverly Gaddy
  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
  Political Science Williams College
     
SESSION V: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
  
A.  Justice, Freedom, Rights
Chair:
Laura Roost
  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
  Political Science  Washington University in St. Louis
B.  Political Psychology / Anthropology
Chair:
Bryan Garsten
  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

“Marcuse and the Tradition of Romantic Possibility” Political Science

Honors College
DePaul University

Texas Tech University
Discussant:
Winifred L. Amaturo
  Public Policy  New York University
C.  Marriage, Family, Care
Chair:
Erin Taylor
  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
  Political Science  Ohio University
D.  Capitalism and Its Critics
Chair:
Kevin W. Gray
  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
  Political Science University at Albany, SUNY
E.  Law, Institutions, and the State
Chair:
Alisa Rosenthal
  Political Science
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)

“Post-Communism and Nation Branding: Romania and Bulgaria” Political Science
LeMoyne College
Andrew Sepielli “The Burdens of Law and the Unfairness of Morality” Philosophy Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Discussant:
Christopher Zurn
  Philosophy University of Kentucky
     
SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 3:30- 5:30 PM
  
A.  Race and Justice: Reform Liberalism or Reject It? A Roundtable
Chair:
Hawley Fogg-Davis
  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
  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
  Philosophy Providence College
C.  Freedom and Political Judgment in Democratic Politics
Chair:
Amy L. Shuster
  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
  Political Science  University of Oklahoma
D.  (Mis)Representation and (Il)legitimacy
Chair:
Nancy L. Schwartz
  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
  Politics  Princeton University
E.  Beyond Reason: The Politics of Beauty, Love, and Pain
Chair:
Sharon Krause
  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
  Political Science  Williams College
     
BUSINESS MEETING: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 5:45 - 7:15 PM