ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL THEORY
INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
Prince Conference Center, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
17-19 October 2003
**Click on panel titles to view paper abstracts**
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Friday, 17 October 2003
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Noon - 1 p.m. ▪ Registration
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1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ▪
Sessions 1 A-D
Chair: Kate Langdon Forhan, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
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Robert W.T. Martin |
“Habermas, Post-Modern Agonism and the Early American Public Sphere” |
Government, Hamilton College |
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Jesse Chupp |
“Calvinism in Early American Political Thought” |
Political Science, Texas A&M University |
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James Block |
“Toward a New Transformational Theory: Rethinking Power and Opposition in the American Case” |
Political Science, DePaul University |
Discussant: Russell Hanson, Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Panel 1B: “Liberalism and Justice”
Chair: Jeffrey Polet, Political Science, Malone College
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David Thunder |
“An Argument Against Rawlsian Public Reason from Agent Integrity” |
Political Science, Notre Dame |
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Brad R. Roth |
“Rethinking the Rights vs. Sovereignty Opposition: The Moral Significance of Collective Decisions” |
Political Science and Law, Wayne State University |
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Gregory Streich |
“Justice Beyond Just Us: Negotiating Time, Place, and Race” |
Political Science, Central Missouri State University |
Discussant: Peter Stone, Political Science, Stanford University
Panel 1C: “Continental Political Philosophy”
Chair: Christopher C. Robinson, Liberal Arts, Clarkson University
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Peter Gratton |
“Derrida, Grammatology, and Politics” |
Philosophy, DePaul University |
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J. Henry Messinger |
“The Self-Evident Foundation of Authority: Law, Sense, and Substance” |
American Studies, University of New Mexico |
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John Baltes |
“Death, Natality, and Forebearance: A Heideggerian Analysis of Sein-zum-Tode” |
Political Science, University of Virginia |
Discussant: Ed Wingenbach, Government, University of Redlands
Chair: Tim Duvall, Government and Politics, St. John's University
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Fonna Forman-Barzilai
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“Proximity and the Ethical in Adam Smith and Emanuel Levinas” |
Political Science, University of California, San Diego |
| David Forman-Barzilai |
Political Science, University of California, San Diego |
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Craig Borowiak |
“Democratic Accountability and Critical Cosmopolitanism” |
Political Science, Reed College |
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Scott G. Nelson |
“Agency, Freedom, Cosmopolitanism: Theorizing Citizenship in a Post-National World” |
Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University |
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Lawrence Quill |
“Positive Freedom and Perpetual Peace: Overcoming the Problems of Size and Transition” |
Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Discussant: Paul Gomberg, Philosophy, Chicago State University
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3:00 - 3:15
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Coffee Break
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3:15 - 5:15 p.m. ▪
Sessions 2 A-D
Panel 2A: “Perspectives on the History of Political Thought”
Chair: Joyce Mullan, Philosophy, Saint Xavier University
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Geoff Kennedy |
“State Formation and the History of Political Thought” |
Political Science, York University |
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Gayil Talshir |
“Political Science towards Praxis-Oriented Theory: The Case of the Objects” |
Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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Darren Walhof |
“Political Theory as Practical Philosophy: Gadamer on Practice, Solidarity, and Tradition” |
Political Science, Grand Valley State University |
Discussant: Amy McCready, Political Science, Bucknell University
Panel 2B: “Identities and Politics”
Chair: Johnny Goldfinger, Political Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Daniel Cordes |
“Metamorphosis: Rhetoric, Democratic Deliberation, and the Surrendering of the Self” |
Political Science, Columbia University |
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Edmund Fong |
“The Hermeneutics of Race” |
Political Science, New School for Social Research |
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Susan Hekman |
“Identity Politics: The Personal and the Political” |
Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington |
Discussant: Michael Rabinder James, Political Science, Bucknell University
Panel 2C: “Politics, Critique, and Resistance”
Chair: Ed Wingenbach, Government, University of Redlands
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George V. Davis |
“Idle Hands, Idle Minds: Secularizing Weber’s Protestant Ethic in Foucault’s History of Madness” |
Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic & State University |
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Jeffrey Bell |
“Between Individualism and Socialism: Deleuze's Micropolitics of Desire” |
History and Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana University |
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Anne Lopes |
“Feminisms after Foucault: Rethinking Power and Subversion” |
Political Science, Metropolitan College of New York |
Discussant: Dennis McEnnerney, Political Science, State University of New York, Oneonta
Panel 2D: “Politics, Literature, and Film”
Chair: Elizabeth Markovits, Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Beverly A. Gaddy
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“Don Quixote, Dreams, and a Politics of the Impossible” |
Political Science, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg |
| Andrew Franz | Independent Scholar | |
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Peter Petrakis |
“All Too Visible: Politics and Art in Albert Camus and Ralph Ellison” |
History and Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana University |
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John S. Nelson |
“Honor, Revenge, and Virtue: Ridley Scott's Revival of Republican Politics” |
Political Science and POROI , University of Iowa |
Discussants: Samuel A. Chambers, Government, University of Redlands
Simona Goi, Political Science, Calvin College
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5:30
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Reception
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6:30 - 8:30 p.m. ▪
Dinner
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Saturday, 18 October 2003
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7:30 -
8:30 a.m. ▪
Continental Breakfast
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8:30 - 10:30 a.m. ▪
Sessions 3A-D
Panel 3A: “Addressing Political Conflicts in the Middle Ages”
Co-Sponsored by Politicas - The Society for the Study of Medieval Political Thought
Chair: Cary J. Nederman, Political Science, Texas A&M University, College Station
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Bettina Koch |
“Whose Heirs We Are? Marsilius of Padua and Johannes Althusius on Trust and the Idea of Officium” |
Political Science, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg |
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Jesse Covington |
“On What Authority? Citation Religiosity in Aquinas on Justice in Summa Theologica” |
Political Science, University of Notre Dame |
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Matthias Riedl |
“Dante and the Emperor” |
Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Discussant: Kate Langdon Forhan, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Northeastern Illinois University
Panel 3B: “Differences, Democracy, and Order”
Chair: Constance C. T. Hunt, James Madison College, Michigan State University
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Mario Feit |
“Rousseau, Mortality and Freedom” |
Public and International Affairs, George Mason University |
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Eleanor B. Fleming |
“Closing the Gap: The Story of Race in Tocqueville’s America” |
Political Science, Vanderbilt University |
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Eileen Hunt Botting |
“Tocqueville's American Girl: A Pupil of Wollstonecraft” |
Political Science, University of Notre Dame |
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Jennet Kirkpatrick |
“Unravelings: Democracy and Justice in the American West, 1849-1900” |
Political Science, University of Michigan |
Discussant: Philip Abbott, Political Science, Wayne State University
Panel 3C: “Problems of Responsibility, Conflict, and Order”
Chair: Samuel A. Chambers, Government, University of Redlands
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Mark Young |
“Making Things Happen: The Responsibility of Conflict Resolution - The Ten Point Experience in Boston” |
Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
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Doron Shultziner |
“Human Dignity in Israel - Applications and Meanings” |
Political Science, Hebrew University |
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Joseph Gilbert Prud'homme |
“Tocqueville, Litigation, and the Problem of Federal Judicial Power” |
Political Philosophy, |
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Roger Berkowitz |
“Gratitude and Punishment: Nietzsche’s Thinking of Revenge” |
Political Science, Amherst College |
Discussant: Sophia Mihic, Political Science, Beloit College
Chair: Manfred B. Steger, Politics & Government, Illinois State University
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Katy Arnold |
“Economic Exploitation, Prerogative Power and Globalization: Consequences for the New Working Class” |
Social Studies, Harvard University |
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Isabelle V. Barker |
“Theorizing Citizenship in an Era of Labor Migration and Inequality” |
Political Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick |
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John R. LeBlanc |
“The Politics of Statelessness: Edward Said and the Ambiguities of Liberal Nationalism” |
Social Sciences, University of Texas at Tyler |
Discussant: Anne Manuel, Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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10:45 - 12:45 p.m.
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Sessions 4A-D
Panel 4A: “Early Modern Reflections”
Chair: Grace Roosevelt, Metropolitan College of New York
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Sharon Stanley |
“Cynics in the City: Rousseau, Mandeville, and Rameau’s Nephew” |
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley |
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Edward J. Harpham |
“The Passions from Locke to Hutcheson” |
Government & Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas |
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Peter Levine |
“Reason, Nature, and Passion: Montesquieu on the Foundation of Political Norms” |
Social Science, National-Louis University |
Discussant: Stephen Engelmann, Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago
Panel 4B: “Religion and Politics”
Chair: Elizabeth Fuller Collins, Philosophy, Ohio University
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Jeffrey Langan |
“The Psychology of Toleration” |
Political Science & Philosophy, University of Notre Dame |
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Steven P. Millies |
“‘Ground Beneath Our Feet’: Politics and Faith in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Challenge to the Twentieth Century” |
Political Science University of South Carolina-Aiken |
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Hossein Seifzadeh |
“Globalization and Diverse Political Philosophy in Muslim World” |
Law & Political Science, Islamic Azad University |
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Michaelle Browers |
“Secularism in the History of Islamic Thought: ‘Unthought,’ Inauthentic, or Eclipsed?” |
Political Science, Wake Forest University |
Discussant: Art Vanden Houten, Political Science, Flagler College
Panel 4C: “Democratic Promises”
Chair: Renee J. Heberle, Political Science and Public Administration, University of Toledo
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John Medearis |
“Mill on Socialism” |
Political Science, University of California, Riverside |
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Kevin Gray |
“The Lessons of Eastern European Marxism” |
Faculté de Philosophie, Université Laval |
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Jacinda Swanson |
“Subjectivity and Temporality within a Gramscian Theory of Hegemony” |
Political Science, Western Michigan University |
Discussant: Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Chair: Scott G. Nelson,
Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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Cynthia Burack |
“Political Theory in the Humanities” |
Women's Studies, Ohio State University |
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Julie Webber |
“Political Theory and Gender: The Unwearable Lightness of Teaching” |
Politics and Government, Illinois State University |
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Jyl J. Josephson |
“Political Theory in American Politics and Public Policy” |
Politics and Government, Illinois State University |
Discussants: The Audience
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12:45 - 2:15 p.m.
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Luncheon
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2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
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Sessions 5A-D
Panel 5A: “Approaches to Political Theory”
Chair: Emily Hauptmann, Political Science, Western Michigan University
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Mark Rigstad |
“Mediating the Theoretical Discourse of Power” |
Philosophy, Oakland University |
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Eric Herrán |
“Claude Lefort’s Political Theory of the Political: For and Against” |
Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
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James Wiley |
“Sheldon Wolin and the Dilemmas of Democratic Theory” |
Political Science, John Carroll University |
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Kelvin Knight |
“What’s the Good of Metaphysical Biology?” |
Politics, London Metropolitan University |
Discussants: Emily Hauptmann, Political Science, Western Michigan University
Darren Walhof, Political Science, Grand Valley State University
Panel 5B: “Contemporary Pluralisms”
Chair: Dan Sabia, Government & International Studies, University of South Carolina
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M. Fevzi Bilgin |
“Before Political Liberalism: Religion and the Formation of Public Morality” |
Political Science, University of Pittsburgh |
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Stephen On |
“Is the Liberal Critique of Multiculturalism Mistaken?” |
Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Daniel Brudney |
“Good versus Good” |
Philosophy, University of Chicago |
Discussant: Andrew Murphy, Christ College, Valparaiso University
Panel 5C: “Interdisciplinary Studies and Political Theory”
Chair: Michael Rabinder James, Political Science, Bucknell University
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Paul Clements |
“The Plight of Bihar: A Rawlsian Analysis” |
Political Science & Development Administration, Western Michigan University |
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Andrew Lotz |
“Formal Theory and Gender” |
Political Science, University of Pittsburgh |
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Diane Johnson |
“Myth and Ritual in American Politics: Four Contrasting Views” |
Sociology, Kutztown University |
Discussant: Ann Davies, Department of Political Science, Beloit College
Panel 5D: “Technology in Question”
Chair: Matthew Roberts, Political Science, Calvin College
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Antonio L. Rappa |
“Technology as the Highest Modern Value in the Work of Nietzsche and Kariel” |
Political Science, National University of Singapore |
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Timothy M. Yetman |
“Technological Consciousness,
Responsibility, and |
Political Science, Purdue University |
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Vladimir Suchan |
“Technology, Nature and the Nothing” |
Political Science, University of Maine at Fort Kent |
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Jeffrey Johnson |
“Illiberal E-Democracy: The Challenge of Electronic Democracy for Liberal Politics” |
Political Science Hendrix College |
Discussant: Anne Caldwell, Political Science, University of Louisville
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4:45 - 6:15 p.m.
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Closing Reception
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Sunday, 19 October 2003
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7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
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Continental Breakfast
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9:30 -
10:15 a.m.
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APT Business Meeting
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Revised 9 October 2003