Association for Political Theory

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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 PM - 8:30 PM

Collaborative Research
 
SESSION I: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

A.  Plato and Public Life
B.  Political Epistemology
C.  Political Participation, Contestation, and Transformation
D.  Theories of Political Identity and Patriotism
E.  Rights and Revolutions
 
SESSION II: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM

A.  Sovereignty and International Relations
B.  Violence and Political Judgment
C.  Trust and Faith in Locke's Political Thought
D.  Morality, Motivation, and Civic Education
E.  Public Discourse, Political Participation, and Virtue
SESSION III: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 3:30 - 5:30 PM

A.  International Justice, Cosmopolitanism and Non-State Actors
B.  Conflict and Strategy in Machiavelli's Thought
C.  Liberalism after Rawls
D.  Religion and Legitimacy in the Liberal State
E.  Political Struggle and Change
PLENARY SESSION II: FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER, 5:50 - 7:05 PM

Politics without Politics
SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM

A.  Historiography, Republicanism, and Revolutions
B.  Environmental Theory: Consumption and Conservation
C.  Power, Identity, Narrative
D.  Liberalism and Its Critics
 
SESSION V: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM

A.  Justice, Freedom, Rights
B.  Political Psychology / Anthropology
C.  Marriage, Family, Care
D.  Capitalism and Its Critics
E.  Law, Institutions, and the State
 
SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 3:30- 5:30 PM

A.  Race and Justice: Reform Liberalism or Reject It? A Roundtable
B.  Uses of History
C.  Freedom and Political Judgment in Democratic Politics
D.  (Mis)Representation and (Il)legitimacy
E.  Beyond Reason: The Politics of Beauty, Love, and Pain
 
BUSINESS MEETING: SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 5:45 - 7:15 PM