ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE 2004
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
29-31 October 2004
SEE PRINTER-FRIENDLY FINAL PROGRAM
| SESSION I: FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 1:30 - 3:30 PM | |||
| A. Ambition, Humility, and Democracy | |||
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Chair: M. Richard Zinman |
James Madison College | Michigan State University | |
| Bernard J. Dobski | "The Periclean Solution to Democratic Ambition" | Political Science | Assumption College |
| Robert K. Faulkner | "The Gentleman-Statesman: Aristotle and the Great-Souled Man" | Political Science | Boston College |
| Steve Kautz | "Lincoln's Ambition" | Political Science | Michigan State University |
| Mary M. Keys | "Aquinas on Humility, Ambition, and the Practice of Politics" | Political Science | University of Notre Dame |
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Discussant:
Benjamin A. Kleinerman |
International Studies and Political Science | Virginia Military Institute | |
| B. The Other Enlightenment: Hume, Tocqueville, and the Complexity of Liberalism | |||
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Chair: Kirstie M. McClure |
Political Science and English | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Sharon Krause | "Humean Judgment and Democratic Deliberation" | Government | Harvard University |
| Tom J. Hoffman | "Sentimental Liberalism: The Ideal of the Good Citizen in David Hume's Character Sketches" | Political Science | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Paul Carrese | "Tocqueville's Moderation and Philosophic Ambition" | Political Science | United States Air Force Academy |
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Discussant: Patrick J. Deneen |
Politics | Princeton University | |
| C. Global Processes, Global Principles | |||
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Chair: Elsa Dias |
Political Science | Pikes Peak Community College | |
| William Paul Simmons | "Concrete Universalisms? The Political Philosophies of Regional Human Rights Courts" | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Arizona State University West |
| Luis Cabrera | "The Other Side of Obligation" | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Arizona State University West |
| Paul R. Viotti | "Enlightenment Values and the Globalization Project" | Graduate School of International Studies | University of Denver |
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Discussant: Tim Duvall |
Government & Politics | St. John's University | |
| D. Public Philosophies and the Limitations of Pluralism | |||
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Chair: Jeffrey Alan Johnson |
History & Government | Cameron University | |
| Katy Arnold | "A Crucial Nexus: Liberal Politics, Ascetic Ideas and Economic Exploitation" | Political Science | University of Texas, San Antonio |
| Jeffrey Minson | "An Ethic for a Civil State: Rehabilitating Civil Prudence" | School of Arts, Media and Culture | Griffith University |
| Daniel Brudney | "Legitimacy Criteria for Noncoercive State Action" | Philosophy | University of Chicago |
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Discussant: Jennet Kirkpatrick |
Political Science | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| SESSION II: FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 4:00 - 6:00 PM | |||
| A. Political Difference in America - Past and Present | |||
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Chair: Dan Sabia |
Political Science | University of South Carolina | |
| Brent Gilchrist | "The Universe of American Diversity" | Political Science | Brigham Young University |
| Robert W.T. Martin | "Institutionalizing Dissent: The Democratic Societies of the 1790s" | Government | Hamilton College |
| Thom Kuehls | "Democracy and Difference: Re-reading the Federalist/Anti-Federalist Debate" | Political Science and Philosophy | Weber State University |
| Andrew J. Seligsohn | "Aesthetic and Political Distance: The Case of Gay/Lesbian Equality" | Political Science | Hartwick College |
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Discussant: Darren Walhof |
Political Science | Grand Valley State University | |
| B. Legality's Contested Foundations: The Problem of Authorization in Theory and Practice | |||
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Chair: William L. Niemi |
Political Science | Western State College of Colorado | |
| Roger Berkowitz | "Legality and Legitimacy in the Prussian Code of 1794: An Inquiry into the Political Scientific Foundations of Modern Law" | Robbins Collection at Boalt Hall | University of California, Berkeley |
| Peter M. Levine | "Montesquieu between Hobbes, Hume, and Kant: Polynomy, Mononomy, and the Foundation of Politics" | Psychology and Social Sciences | National-Louis University |
| Joseph Prud'homme | "The Structural Foundations of the Justice Republic: The Dialectic of American Law and the Problematics of its Justification" | Core Humanities | Villanova University |
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Discussant: Douglas Dow |
Social Sciences | University of Texas at Dallas | |
| C. Global Feminisms | |||
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Chair: Eileen Hunt Botting |
Political Science | University of Notre Dame | |
| Courtney Paige Smith | "Transforming Cultural Identities: The Eradication of Female Genital Cutting" | Political Science | University of Oregon |
| Michaele Ferguson | "Home, Land, Security: Women's Status in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the U.S." | Political Science | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Discussants: Carisa R. Showden |
Political Science | University of North Carolina - Greensboro | |
| Jennifer Ring | Political Science | University of Nevada, Reno | |
| D. Environmental Political Theory: The Art of Politics in a Natural World (Roundtable) | |||
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Moderator: Patrick F. McKinlay |
Political Science | Morningside College | |
| Victoria A. Kamsler | "Reading Nature" | Philosophy | Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study |
| Christopher C. Robinson | "Theorizing Sustainability: An Exercise in Political Ecology" | School of Arts and Sciences | Clarkson University |
| Kerry Whiteside | "For a Deliberative Interpretation of the Precautionary Principle" | Government | Franklin & Marshall College |
| Breena Holland | "Environment Capacity and Democratic Political Theory" | Political Science | University of Chicago |
| SESSION III: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 8 - 10 AM | |||
| A. Ancient Reflections | |||
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Chair: Ronald L. Weed |
Philosophy | Tyndale University College, Toronto | |
| Borden Flanagan | "Thucydides on the Historicity of Perspective" | Government | American University |
| Daniel Kapust | "Virtue and Its Victims: The Perverse Consequences of Patriotic Aspirations in Sallust's War with Jugurtha and Bellum Catilinae" | Political Science | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Frederick M. Dolan | "Hannah Arendt and the Political Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth" | Rhetoric | University of California, Berkeley |
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Discussants: Robert K. Faulkner |
Political Science | Boston College | |
| Aristide Tessitore | Political Science | Furman University | |
| B. Problems of Justice and Rationality | |||
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Chair: Johnny Goldfinger |
Political Science | Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis | |
| Peter Stone | "Justice and Rationality" | Political Science | Stanford University |
| Paul Gomberg | "Opportunity and Contributive Justice" | Philosophy | Chicago State University |
| Alex Tuckness | "Non-Ideal theory and Justice" | Political Science | Iowa State University |
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Discussant: Steven Gerencser |
Political Science | Indiana University South Bend | |
| C. Power, Gendered Norms, and Politics | |||
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Chair: Anne Lopes |
Political Science | Metropolitan College of New York | |
| Norman Patrick Peritore | "Sparta Agonistes: Evolutionary Biology v. Spartan Culture" | Political Science | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Jennifer Ring | "Beyond Separate But Equal: Sports and Gender Control in America" | Political Science | University of Nevada, Reno |
| Kathy E. Ferguson | "Political Thinking in the Streets" | Political Science & Women's Studies | University of Hawai`i at Manoa |
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Discussant: Karen Zivi |
Political Science | University of Southern California | |
| D. Narratives, Understanding, and Action | |||
| Chair: Patrick J. Deneen |
Politics | Princeton University | |
| Amy M. Kniss | "The About-to-Die-Moment: Terror Free Terrorism" | Politics | University of Virginia |
| Daniel Cordes | "How Did I Get Here?: The (In)Adequacy of Narrative Solutions to Failures of Agency" | Political Science | Columbia University |
| Leslie Paul Thiele | "Truth, Stories and Politics" | Political Science | University of Florida |
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Discussant: Nicholas Dungey |
Political Science | California State University, Northridge | |
| SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | |||
| A. Decline and Development in Medieval Political Thought | |||
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Chair: April Harper |
History | The Colorado College | |
| Bettina Koch | "The Corruption of 'the World's Greatest Market Place': On Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Decline" | Political Science | University of Oldenburg |
| Quentin P. Taylor | "John of Salisbury, the Politcraticus, and Political Thought" | History and Political Science | Rogers State University |
| Cary J. Nederman | "Economic Nationalism and the Spirit of Capitalism in the Works of John Fortescue" | Political Science | Texas A&M University |
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Discussant: John von Heyking |
Political Science | University of Lethbridge | |
| B. American Identity, American Calamity: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 and Beyond (Roundtable) | |||
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Chair: Daniel Pellerin |
Government | University of Redlands | |
| Paper: Andrew R. Murphy | "American Identity, American Calamity: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 and Beyond" | Humanities and Political Philosophy | Christ College, Valparaiso University |
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Discussants: Ann C. Davies |
Political Science |
Beloit College |
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| Andrew Rehfeld | Political Science | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| James Block | Political Science | DePaul University | |
| C. Rawls and Contingencies | |||
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Chair: Michael Rabinder James |
Political Science | Bucknell University | |
| Grace G. ("Jinx") Roosevelt | "Rousseau vs. Rawls on the Prospects for International Peace" | Human Services and Education | Metropolitan College of New York |
| Nathaniel J. Klemp | "Improvisational Reflective Equilibrium" | Politics | Princeton University |
| Paul Clements | "Aims and Methodologies of a Rawlsian Political Analysis" | Political Science | Western Michigan University |
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Discussant: Gordon A. Babst |
Political Science | Chapman University | |
| D. Against Progress? Pessimism, Social Obsolescence, and Political Abstinence | |||
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Chair: Ed Wingenbach |
Political Science | University of Redlands | |
| Stuart A. MacNiven | "The Paradox of Progress: Rousseau and Walter Benjamin" | Political Science | Rutgers New Brunswick |
| Ivan A. Ascher | "Lost (and Found) in Translation: Reading Marx after Derrida" | Political Science | University of California, Berkeley |
| Derek S. Merrill | "The (Literary) Temporality of the Multitude: Against the Production of Social Obsolescence in Morrison and Silko" | English | University of Florida |
| Joshua Foa Dienstag | "Consciousness is a Disease: Existential Pessimism in Camus, Unamuno and Cioran" | Politics | University of Virginia |
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Discussant: Peter A. Petrakis |
History and Political Science | Southeastern Louisiana University | |
| SESSION V: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2 - 4 PM | |||
| A. Markets, Contracts, Ethics | |||
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Chair: Richard C. Box |
Public Administration | University of Nebraska at Omaha | |
| Dennis C. Rasmussen | "Adam Smith on Political Progress" | Political Science | Duke University |
| Elisabeth H. Ellis | "Disaggregating the Social Contract Tradition" | Political Science | Texas A&M University |
| Edward J. Harpham | "On Benevolence and Gratitude: The Problem of Merit in Adam Smith" | Social Sciences | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Jacinda M. Swanson | "What Foucauldian Research on Governmentality Can Contribute to Theorizing Economic Practices" | Political Science | Western Michigan University |
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Discussants: Sharon Krause |
Government | Harvard University | |
| Kathy E. Ferguson | Political Science & Women's Studies | University of Hawai`i at Manoa | |
| B. Communication, Deliberation, and Democratic Theory | |||
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Chair: Simona Goi |
Political Science | Calvin College | |
| Martín Plot | "A Democratico-Political Critique of Habermas's Communicative Action" | School of Critical Studies | California Institute of the Arts |
| Cheryl Hall | "Passion in Deliberative Democracy" | Government & International Affairs | University of South Florida |
| Paul R. Babbitt | "Public Space and Public Domain: The Impact of Intellectual Property on Democracy in an Age of Information Technology" | History, Political Science, and Geography | Southern Arkansas University |
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Discussant: Michael Rabinder James |
Political Science | Bucknell University | |
| C. Politics and Theory in the Work of Judith Butler | |||
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Chair: Elizabeth Wingrove |
Political Science | University of Michigan | |
| Terrell Carver | "Incest & Inscription: Heteronormativity in Antigone's Claim" | Politics | University of Bristol |
| Sam Chambers | "Normative Violence: Rereading the Politics of Gender Trouble" | Political Science | Pennsylvania State University |
| John Seery | "Acclaim for Antigone's Claim" | Politics | Pomona College |
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Discussants: Elizabeth Wingrove |
Political Science | University of Michigan | |
| Anne Caldwell | Political Science | University of Louisville | |
| D. Faith, Conflict, and Toleration | |||
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Chair: Steven Millies |
Political Science | University of South Carolina - Aiken | |
| Firmin DeBrabander | "The Highest Form of Devotion: Spinoza and Hume on Politics and Principle" | Philosophy | Boston College |
| Cynthia Halpern | "Two Concepts of Suffering: Between Liberty and Faith" | Political Science | Swarthmore College |
| Aristide Tessitore | "Tocqueville and Gobineau: Debating the Secularization Thesis" | Political Science | Furman University |
| Beverly A. Gaddy | "Freedom, Autonomy, Faith and Truth: Transcending Toleration" | Political Science | University of Pittsburgh |
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Discussant: Timothy Fuller |
Political Science | The Colorado College | |
| SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 4:30 - 6:30 PM | |||
| A. Readings of Early Modernity | |||
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Chair: Amy McCready |
Political Science | Bucknell University | |
| Lida E. Maxwell | "The Security of Liberty: Popular Practices and the Law in Montesquieu" | Political Science | Northwestern University |
| Keally DeAnne McBride | "Biopolitics, Liberalism and Locke" | Political Science | Temple University |
| Nancy L. Luxon | "From Passion to Desire: Psychoanalysis as Political Psychology?" | Political Science | University of California, San Diego |
| Eileen Hunt Botting | "Rousseau's Rural Republican Family" | Political Science | University of Notre Dame |
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Discussant: James Farr |
Political Science | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | |
| B. Alternate Conceptions of Democratic Action | |||
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Chair: Dennis McEnnerney |
Philosophy | Colorado College | |
| Zachary A. Callen | "Nonviolence and Democracy: Social Movements and Social Justice?" | Political Science | University of Chicago |
| Gus diZerga | "Emergent Order and Political Theory" | Government | St. Lawrence University |
| John S. Nelson | "Representation and Its Discontents: Figures for a Post-Western Politics" | Political Science | University of Iowa |
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Discussant: Mary Dietz |
Political Science | University of Minnesota | |
| C. Identities, Oppression, and Power | |||
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Chair: Gregory Streich |
Political Science | Central Missouri State University | |
| Jeffrey Langan | "The Spirit of the City" | Philosophy and Political Science | University of Notre Dame |
| Demetra Kasimis | "Rethinking Paradigms: The Invention of Black Particularity within the Realm of Inquiry" | Political Science | Northwestern University |
| Lisa Bates | "The Politics of the Family Values Debate" | Philosophy | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Erica Bouris | "Complex Political Victims: Recognition, Assistance, and Peace" | International Studies | University of Denver |
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Discussant: Andrew Valls |
Political Science | Oregon State University | |
| D. Friendship, Civility, and Political Thought | |||
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Chair: Wendell John Coats, Jr. |
Government | Connecticut College | |
| Hans von Rautenfeld | "From Political Friendship to Citizenship: Political Participation in Modern Democracies" | Philosophy | University of South Carolina |
| Benjamin Douglas Mitchell | "Strengths United: Friendship and Association in Hobbes's Political Theory" | Politics | University of Virginia |
| Corey Abel | "The Peaceful Polity: War, Friendship and the Civil Condition" | Political Science | Metro State College Denver |
| Peter Digeser | "Friendship between States" | Political Science | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Discussant: Ann C. Davies |
Political Science | Beloit College | |
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