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CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2009

Texas A&M University
Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
College Station, Texas, 22-24 October 2009

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SESSION I: FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM

A.  Global Justice and Injustice
B.  Deliberation in Practice
C.  Political Interpretations of Religion
SESSION II: FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM

A.  State and Identity
B.  Limits to Market Reasoning
C.  Language, Aesthetics, and Politics
D.  Echoes of the French Revolution
E.  Sovereignty and Law
SESSION III: FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER, 3:15 - 5:15 PM

A.  Value Pluralism
B.  The Limits of Self-Reliance
C.  Race, Identity, and Power
D.  Perspectives on Political Theorizing
E.  Transitions in Government and Law
PLENARY SESSION I: FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER, 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Inquiry and Engagement in Political Theory
PLENARY SESSION II: SATURDAY, 24, OCTOBER, 8:00 - 9:15 AM

What's So Liberating about the Liberal Arts? (Breakfast Session)
SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 24, OCTOBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM

A.  Membership and Exclusion
B.  The Intersection of Politics and Religion
C.  The Means and Ends of Governing
D.  Intersections: Ancient to Postmodern
SESSION V: SATURDAY, 24, OCTOBER, 1:30 - 3:30 PM

A.  Readings of Renaissance Thought
B.  Democratic Concepts and Conditions
C.  Critical Standards
D.  Time, Decline, and Memory
SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 24, OCTOBER, 3:45 - 5:45 PM

A.  Power and Bodies
B.  Order and Dissent
C.  Narratives of Political Community
D.  Institutions against Global Inequality
PLENARY SESSION III: SATURDAY, 24, OCTOBER, 6:00 - 7:30 PM

What Good Is Innocence? Billy Budd in The Bacchae

Revised: 28 October 2009