ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE 2004
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
29-31 October 2004
PROGRAM SUMMARY
| SESSION I: FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 1:30 - 3:30 PM | |
| A. | Ambition, Humility and Democracy |
| B. | The Other Enlightenment: Hume, Tocqueville, and the Complexity of Liberalism |
| C. | Global Processes, Global Principles |
| D. | Public Philosophies and the Limitations of Pluralism |
| SESSION II: FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER 4:00 - 6:00 PM | |
| A. | Political Difference in America - Past and Present |
| B. | Legality's Contested Foundations: The Problem of Authorization in Theory and Practice |
| C. | Global Feminisms |
| D. | Environmental Political Theory: The Art of Politics in a Natural World (Roundtable) |
| SESSION III: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 8 - 10 AM | |
| A. | Ancient Reflections |
| B. | Problems of Justice and Rationality |
| C. | Power, Gendered Norms, and Politics |
| D. | Narratives, Understanding, and Action |
| SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | |
| A. | Decline and Development in Medieval Political Thought |
| B. | American Identity, American Calamity: Sin, Decline, Morality, and Punishment in American Social and Political Thought (Roundtable) |
| C. | Rawls and Contingencies |
| D. | Against Progress? Pessimism, Social Obsolescence, and Political Abstinence |
| SESSION V: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2 - 4 PM | |
| A. | Markets, Contracts, Ethics |
| B. | Communication, Deliberation, and Democratic Theory |
| C. | Politics and Theory in the Work of Judith Butler |
| D. | Faith, Conflict, and Toleration |
| SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER 4:30 - 6:30 PM | |
| A. | Readings of Early Modernity |
| B. | Alternate Conceptions of Democratic Action |
| C. | Identities, Oppression, and Power |
| D. | Friendship, Civility, and Political Thought |
Revised 6 August 2004