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APT CONFERENCE 2006

Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana

2-5 November 2006

 

 

DETAILED PROGRAM

 

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INFORMAL PLENARY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER, 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Presidents’ Room (University Club), Indiana Memorial Union  
     
Writing and Publishing Book Reviews - How Journal Editors See the Process (with a tour of the editorial offices of Perspectives on Politics)
Chair:
Jeffrey C. Isaac		   Political Science
Book Review Editor, Perspectives on Politics 		Indiana University Bloomington
Margot Morgan   Political Science
Political Theory Editorial Assistant, Perspectives on Politics 		Rutgers University
Rebekah Tromble   Political Science
Comparative Politics Editorial Assistant, Perspectives on Politics 		Indiana University Bloomington
James Moskowitz   Political Science
International Relations Editorial Assistant, Perspectives on Politics 		Indiana University Bloomington
       
INFORMAL BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE: FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER, 8 - 9:45 AM
Faculty Club, Indiana Memorial Union    
     
Pedagogy of Political Theory
Chair:
Julie White		   Political Science Ohio University
Judith L. Failer "Moving Beyond the Text: Active Learning in Political Theory" Political Science  Indiana University Bloomington
Elizabeth K. Markovits "Using B. Walvoord's 'Effective Grading' Scheme" Political Science Saint Louis University
Alisa Rosenthal "Reacting to the Past in Political Theory Courses" Political Science Gustavus Adolphus College
       
SESSION I: FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
     
A. Democratic Decision-Making Procedures - Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Dan Sabia 		  Political Science University of South Carolina
Johnny Goldfinger "The Normative Implications of Cyclical Majorities in Theory and Practice" Political Science Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Gerry Mackie "The Reception of Social Choice Theory by Democratic Theory" Political Science University of California, San Diego
Peter Stone "What Is a Fair Lottery?" Political Science Stanford University
Discussants:
Keith Topper 		  Communication Studies and Political Science Northwestern University
Dan Sabia   Political Science University of South Carolina
     
B.  Being UnAmerican: "Conservative" Dissenters in Hartz's Liberal America - Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
David F. Ericson		   Political Science Wichita State University
Patrick J. Deneen "America: The Alternative Tradition" Government Georgetown University
Russell Arben Fox "The Populist Agrarian: William Jennings Bryan, Wendell Berry, and Conserving the Local" Social and Behavioral Sciences Friends University
Derek A. Webb "Lincoln’s Political Religion: Living through the Tension of an Incomplete Constitution" Political Science University of Notre Dame
Discussant:
Russell Hanson 		  Political Science Indiana University
     
C.  Aesthetics, Action, and Judgment - Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Leslie Paul Thiele		   Political Science University of Florida
James M. King "Freedom via Kant: Arendtian Judgment from a Distance" Arts and Humanities University of Texas at Dallas
Martín Plot "A Political Reading of Aesthetic Theories: Arendt, Adorno, Merleau-Ponty" Critical Studies California Institute of the Arts
Delia Alexandru "Havel's Theatre: The Art and Politics of Criticism" Political Science University of Colorado at Boulder
Discussant:
Andrew Seligsohn		   Political Science Hartwick College
     
D.  Space, Place and Form - Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Clarissa Rile Hayward		   Political Science Ohio State University
Michael J. Shapiro "The New Violent Cartographies" Political Science University of Hawai'i
Jennifer Einspahr "Spaces of Freedom: Imag(in)ing the Material World” Political Science Kalamazoo College
Laura K. Grattan “Travelling Lecturers, Cross-border Encampments, and the Populist Movement: Toward a Theory and Practice of Democratic Imagination” Political Science Duke University
Discussant:
Jason Frank		   Government Cornell University
     
E.  Familial Politics - Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Cheryl Hall		   Government & International Affairs University of South Florida
Kennan Ferguson "The Functioning Family" Interdisciplinary Social Sciences University of South Florida
Jesse A. Chupp "Intergenerational Citizenship: Refuting Democratic Egalitarianism” Political Science Texas A&M University
Elizabeth K. Markovits “Intergenerational Justice, Responsibility, and Aeschylus’ Oresteia” Political Science Saint Louis University
Discussant:
Patricia Boling		   Women's Studies and Political Science Purdue University
     
       
SESSION II: FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER, 1:30 - 3:30 PM
     
A.  Culture, Sentiment, and Normativity in Rawls - Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Elizabeth Haller Ellis		   Political Science Texas A&M University
Michael L. Frazer “John Rawls: Between Two Enlightenments” Political Science Brown University
Mika Lavaque-Manty “Almost Humean: Kant and Rawls” Political Science University of Michigan
Detlef von Daniels “Depicting Mohammed: Shame and Self Respect in the Non-Ideal World” Law University of Göttingen
Discussant:
J. Donald Moon		   Government Wesleyan University
     
B.  Time - Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
William E. Scheuerman		   Political Science Indiana University Bloomington
Cynthia Halpern “Politics and Time: The Archeology of Political Apocalyptic” Political Science Swarthmore College
David W. McIvor “Speed, Rhythm, Mobility: The Temporalities of Political Theory” Political Science Duke University
Daniel DiLeo “The Significance of Time in Aristotle’s Political Science” Arts and Humanities Pennsylvania State University Altoona
Discussant:
Robyn Marasco		   Political Science Williams College
     
C.  Religion and Politics - Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Harvey Brown		   Political Science The University of Western Ontario
Darren Walhof “’A Needless Mass of Inanities’: Disciplining Superstition and Inventing Modern Religion in Calvin’s Geneva” Political Science Grand Valley State University
Beverly Ann Gaddy “A Solitary Politics: Kierkegaard, the Other, and Community” Political Science University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Paul J. Cornish “Evangelical Poverty in Las Casas' Defense of Indian Freedom” Political Science Grand Valley State University
J. Christopher A. Paskewich “Public Spaces and Public Faiths” Political Science University of Connecticut
Discussant:
Gordon Babst		   Political Science Chapman University
     
D.  Accountability and Justice in the Market and Beyond - Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Breena Holland		   Political Science & the Environmental Initiative Lehigh University
Paul Gomberg “Why Markets Are Incompatible with Egalitarian Justice: Arguments against Liberal Egalitarianism” Philosophy Chicago State University

Joel M. Parker

 “Rescuing the Political Sphere” Government  University of Texas at Austin
Craig Borowiak “Democratic Renewal and the Problems of Market Unaccountability” Political Science Haverford College
Barbara Buckinx “The Role of Public Global Institutions in a Just World Order” Politics Princeton University
Discussant:
Eric MacGilvray		   Political Science Ohio State University
     
       
SESSION III: FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER, OCTOBER, 4 - 6 PM
     
A.  Reassessing John Locke - Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Kirstie M. McClure		   Political Science and English University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew Rehfeld “The Hebrew Bible and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government” Political Science Washington University in St. Louis
Richard Boyd “Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Liberal Exclusion” Political Science University of Wisconsin-Madison
S-J Savonius “John Locke’s Reformist Philosophy” History, Clare Hall University of Cambridge
Kristy M. King “Self-Preservation, Self-Interest and the Publick Good: Natural Law in Locke’s Political Theory” Political Science Rutgers University
Discussant:
Christopher H. Anderson		   Politics and Government University of Hartford
     
B.  New Readings of Kant - Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Paulina Ochoa-Espejo		   Political Science Yale University
Daniel A. Silver “Kantian Anthropology, Boredom, and the Problem of Action" Social Thought University of Chicago
Pablo Gilabert “Kant and the Rights of the Poor” Philosophy Concordia University
Nicholas Tampio “Kantian Responses to Fundamentalism” Government Hamilton College
Discussant:
Roger Berkowitz		   Political Studies and Human Rights Bard College
     
C.  Art, Literature and Political Theory - Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Catherine H. Zuckert		   Political Science University of Notre Dame
Frederick M. Dolan “Reflections on Art and Politics”: Martin Heidegger’s Kunstwerk and Wallace Steven’s Supreme Fiction” Humanities California College of the Arts
Leonard Williams “Theory, Identity and Autobiography” Political Science Manchester College
Joel A. Schlosser “More than a Mirror: Comedy and Political Theory” Political Science Duke University
Discussant:
Simona Goi		   Political Science Calvin College
     
D.  Re-Thinking Republicanism - Room 218, Woodburn Hall
Chair:
Steven A. Kelts		   Political Science George Washington University
Michael J. Faber “A Republican Social Contract: Montesquieu, Locke, and the American Founding” Political Science Indiana University
Leigh K. Jenco “From Difference (yi) to Commonality (tong): Zhang Shizhao's Challenge to the Idea of Public Space” Political Science University of Chicago
Eric MacGilvray “Republicanism and the Market” Political Science Ohio State University
Discussant:
Stephen Leonard		   Political Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
     
     
SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 4 NOVEMBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM
A.  Border Crossings and Feminism - Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Alisa Rosenthal		   Political Science Gustavus Adolphus College
Varsha Chitnis “Citizenship and Women: Assessing the Contributions of Feminist Politics” Political Science University of Florida
Kathy E. Ferguson “Anarchist Publics: Emma Goldman's World” Political Science and Women's Studies University of Hawai'i
Rafia Zakaria “Empty Choices? Gender Multiculturalism and the Ontario Sharia Controversy” Political Science Indiana University
Elizabeth Ben-Ishai “Toward a Revised Conception of Social Citizenship: An Autonomy-Focused Model” Political Science University of Michigan
Discussant:
Anne Lopes		   Political Science Metropolitan College of New York
     
B.  Political Foundings across Time and Space - Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Paul J. Cornish		   Political Science Grand Valley State University
Michaelle Browers “Arabic Thought after Hourani’s Liberal Age: The First Generation Post-Independence” Political Science Wake Forest University
Nicholas Almendares “Rationality & Precommitment”" Politics New York University
Katya C. Long “The Redefinition of Sovereignty during the French Revolution: Sieyès vs. Robespierre” European Studies Université Libre de Bruxelles
Discussant:
Joshua Foa Dienstag		   Political Science University of California, Los Angeles
     
C.  Affect and Political Life - Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
John Randolph LeBlanc		   Social Sciences University of Texas at Tyler
David Western "Rawls vs. the 60's: Love in Political Life and How It Challenges Contemporary Liberalism" Political Science Brown University
Leslie Paul Thiele “The Death of the Actor: Arendt, Narrative, Politics” Political Science University of Florida
Meili Steele “History, Public Reason, and the Social Imaginary” English University of South Carolina
Elisabeth Anker “Orgies of Feeling: Victimization, Vengeance and Contemporary Political Life” Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Discussant:
Cheryl Hall		   Government & International Affairs University of South Florida
     
D.  State Sovereignty and Exception during Wartime - Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Anne Caldwell		   Political Science University of Louisville
Geoffrey Whitehall “Deleuze, Sovereignty and Verbs” Political Science Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Andrew Franz “Suspended, Unless: A Tale of Habeas Corpus” Criminology University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Discussant:
Mariah Zeisberg		   Political Science University of Michigan
     
     
SESSION V: SATURDAY, 4 NOVEMBER, 1 - 3 PM
     
A.  Negotiating Global Democracy - Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Julie White		   Political Science Ohio University
Pauline O. Johnson “Globalizing Democracy: Reflections on Habermas’ Radicalism” Sociology Macquarie University
Shirin S. Deylami "In the Face of the Machine: Westoxifiication, Cultural Collision and the Making of Islamic Ideology" Political Science University of Minnesota
Ali Aslam “Exporting Democracy” Political Science Duke University
Discussant:
D. Christopher Brooks		   Political Science St. Olaf College
     
B.  Keeping the Polis Together - Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Cary J. Nederman		   Political Science Texas A&M University
Steven A. Kelts “Between Conflict and Community: Aristotle, Friendship and Liberty” Political Science George Washington University
Gregory Sadler "Virtue, Passions, and the Rule of Law in Aristotelian Politics" Philosophy and Religious Studies Ball State University
Scott John Hammond

“Plato and Equality”

 Political Science James Madison University
Alexandra Elizabeth Hoerl “Recovering the Ethos of the Orator through an Understanding of Rhetoric-as-Movere” Political Science Rutgers University
Discussant:
James R.L. Noland		   Philosophy Texas A&M University
     
C.  Political Inquiry and Professional Ethics - Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Emily Hauptmann		   Political Science Western Michigan University
Maurice J. Meilleur "The Public Role of Political Scholarship" Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Roudy W. Hildreth “Power, Politics, and the Possibility of Realizing Dewey's Democratic Ideal” Political Science Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Robert Geroux &
Andrea Bertotti Metoyer 		“Doctors at War: ‘Behavioral Science Research Teams,’ Professional Societies, and the Limitations of a Liberal Model of the Social Sciences” Political Science
Sociology and Peace and Justice Studies 		Marian College
Discussant:
Craig Hanks		   Philosophy Texas State University and
The Stevens Institute of Technology
     
D.  Neglected Terms of Political Theory - Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Gregory W. Streich		   Political Science Central Missouri University
Andrew Sabl "Circumstances of Courage" Government Harvard University
Amy R. McCready “Critical Positions: Claims of Justice and Illness” Political Science Bucknell University
Ian N. Storey “Forgiveness and the Bounds of Politics” Political Science University of Chicago
Asma Abbas “Against Garrulity: Liberalism and the Passage of Suffering” Politics and Philosophy Simon's Rock College of Bard
Discussant:
Kennan Ferguson		   Interdisciplinary Social Sciences University of South Florida
     
     
SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 4 NOVEMBER, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
     
A.  Violence, Terror, and the Limits of Community - Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Sigal Ben-Porath		   Education University of Pennsylvania
Dustin Ells Howes “Strange Realism: Reassessing Machiavelli's Economy of Violence” Political Science St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Renee J. Heberle “Performativity and Violence against Women” Political Science University of Toledo
Mary Hawkesworth “Gender and Gendering in Practices of Terror” Women's and Gender Studies Rutgers University
John S. Nelson "Perfecting Defenses against Ultra-Violence: Nietzsche in the Movies" Political Science and the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry University of Iowa
Discussant:
Elizabeth Wingrove		   Political Science University of Michigan
     
B.  Deliberative versus Agonistic Democracy - Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Christopher F. Zurn		   Philosophy University of Kentucky
Amit Ron “Democratic Deliberations and Critical Inquiry: Israeli Society and the Oslo Peace Process” Political Science and the Centre for Ethics University of Toronto
Jessica M. Flanigan "Judicial Decision-Making and Deliberative Democracy" Political Science Washington University in St. Louis
David Watkins “Democracy as the Struggle for Fairer and More Equal Social Relations” Humanities and Sciences Cornish College of the Arts
Discussant:
Steven A. Gerencser		   Political Science Indiana University South Bend
     
C.  Vices and Virtues - Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Benjamin Arah		   Government and Philosophy Bowie State University
Daniel Brudney “Two Vices: Amour-Propre and Envy, Rousseau and Rawls” Philosophy University of Chicago
Thomas R. Schlatter “More than Metaphor: Nietzsche’s Misogyny as Rhetorical Strategy in His War against Modernity” Politics Indiana University
Christopher L. Helminski "Judging Fraternity: Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt”   Independent Scholar
David Thunder "What Can Liberalism Learn from Virtue Ethics about Respect?" Political Science Bucknell University
Discussant:
Jason Boffetti		   Politics Ave Maria University
     
D.  Neglected Sources in American Political Thought - Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Chair:
Rob Martin 		  Government Hamilton College
Andrew R. Murphy “The American Jeremiad as Politics, History, and Narrative” Christ College Valparaiso University
Eileen Hunt Botting "Protofeminist Responses to the Federalist-Antifederalist Debate" Political Science University of Notre Dame
Howard L. Lubert “Theological Radicalism, Philosophic Liberalism, and the American Founding: Jonathan Mayhew’s Interpretation of Romans 13: 1-8" Political Science James Madison University
Marek D. Steedman “The End of the Agrarian Tradition in the South: Race, Labor, and Conceptions of Independence” Political Science University of Southern Mississippi
Discussant:
Ann C. Davies 		  Political Science Beloit College
     
     
PLENARY SESSION: SATURDAY, 4 NOVEMBER, 5:45 - 7 PM,
Presidents’ Room (University Club), Indiana Memorial Union
     
The Past and Future of Book Publishing in Political Theory
Chair:
Dennis McEnnerney		   Philosophy The Colorado College
Sanford G. Thatcher "The Future of Scholarly Book Publishing in Political Theory" Pennsylvania State University Press Pennsylvania State University
Mary Hawkesworth   Women's and Gender Studies Rutgers University
Stephen Wrinn   University Press of Kentucky University of Kentucky
Michael Aronson   Harvard University Press Harvard University
     
BUSINESS MEETING: SUNDAY, 4 NOVEMBER, 8 - 10 AM,
Presidents’ Room (University Club), Indiana Memorial Union

 

 

 

see CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

 

see SUMMARY program

 

SEE INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS