ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE 2004

The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado

29-31 October 2004

 

PROGRAM SUMMARY

 

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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

 

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Revised 6 August 2004