APT CONFERENCE 2007
The University of Western Ontario
Spencer Conference Centre, London, Ontario
11-14 October 2007
DETAILED PROGRAM
see CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
see SUMMARY program
SEE INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS
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PLENARY SESSION I: THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Asher's Dining Room |
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| Topic: Roundtable on U.S. - Canadian Relations | |||
| Chair: Dennis McEnnerney |
Philosophy | The Colorado College | |
| Donald E. Abelson | "Border Issues" | Political Science
and Centre for American Studies |
The University of Western Ontario |
| John McDougall | "The Effects of Trade and Investment on the Rest of the Canada-U.S. Relationship" | Political Science | The University of Western Ontario |
| Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon | "Canada–U.S. Relations and the Northwest Passage" | Political Science | The University of Western Ontario |
| PLENARY SESSION II: FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER, 8 - 9:15 AM Asher's Dining Room |
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| Topic: Informal Breakfast Roundtable on Technology and Teaching Political Theory | |||
| William Paul Simmons | "The State of Exception in a Political Theory Classroom: PBL, Wikis, and Impeachment" | Political Science | Arizona State University |
| Mika LaVaque-Manty | "Using Interactive Technologies for Teaching Political Theory" | Political Science | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Elisabeth Ellis | "Podcasting and Political Theory" | Political Science | Texas A&M University |
| SESSION I: FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| A. Revolutionary Theory / Theorists of Revolution - Elm Room | |||
| Chair: Benjamin Hill |
Philosophy | University of Western Ontario | |
| Steven Kelts | "John Locke: Radical Democrat, Democratic Revolutionary" | Political Science | George Washington University |
| Jeffrey J. Langan | "The Enduring Tensions of the French Revolution" | Philosophy and Political Science | University of Notre Dame |
| Teena Gabrielson | "The Civic Ideal of William Bartram’s Travels" | Political Science | University of Wyoming |
| Robert W. T. Martin | "The “Saucy Sons of Enquiry”: Thomas Cooper and Democratic Dissent" | Government | Hamilton College |
| Discussant: Philip Abbott |
Political Science | Wayne State University | |
| B. Politics of Memory - Balsam Room | |||
| Chair: Maurice J. Meilleur |
Political Science | University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign | |
| Cynthia Halpern | "The Politics of Redemption: Messianic and Apocalyptic Suffering and the End of Time" | Political Science | Swarthmore College |
| P. J. Brendese | "Inheriting Silence: Segregated Memory and American Democracy" | Government | The College of William & Mary |
| Giunia Gatta | "Suffering, Theory, and Politics" | Political Science | University of Minnesota |
| Joyce M. Mullan | "To Whom Do We Owe the Truth in an Age of Prejudice? Truth in Gandhi and Fanon" | Political Science | Rutgers University - Newark |
| Discussant: Maurice J. Meilleur |
Political Science | University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign | |
| C. Comedy, Tragedy, Parody - Spruce Room | |||
| Chair: Emily Hauptmann |
Political Science | Western Michigan University | |
| Elizabeth Markovits | "Athena's Athens: Freedom, Responsibility, and Democratic Institutions" | Political Science | Saint Louis University |
| Karey Leung | "Suspension of Secular Seriousness - Kierkegaard as Ethical Humorist" | Political Science | Rutgers University |
| Derek Barker | "The Politics of Tragedy and Parody: Judith Butler's Postmodern Antigone" | Kettering Foundation | |
| Christopher C. Robinson | "Bare Life: Comedy, Trust, and Language in Wittgenstein and Beckett" | Humanities and Social Sciences | Clarkson University |
| Discussants: Bonnie MacLachlan |
Classics | The University of Western Ontario | |
| Emily Hauptmann | Political Science | Western Michigan University | |
| SESSION II: FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM |
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| A. Alternative Democratic Institutions - Maple Leaf Room | |||
| Chair: Dan Sabia |
Political Science | University of South Carolina | |
| Peter Stone | “The Simple and Complex Nature of Lotteries” | Political Science | Stanford University |
| Melissa Schwartzberg | “Acclamation and Aggregation in the Ancient World” | Political Science | Columbia University |
| James H. Read | “John C. Calhoun's Federalism and Its Contemporary Echoes” | Political Science | College of St. Benedict and St. John's University |
| Ed Wingenbach | “Agonistic Democracy and the Perils of Populism” | Government | University of Redlands |
| Discussants: Thomas Christiano |
Philosophy and Law | University of Arizona | |
| Dan Sabia | Political Science | University of South Carolina | |
| B. Sovereign States and Dutiful Citizens - Elm Room | |||
| Chair: Gregory W. Streich |
Political Science |
University of Central Missouri | |
| Howard L. Lubert | “William Blackstone, Sovereignty, and Political Authority” | Political Science | James Madison University |
| Ian Zuckerman | “Political Action, Freedom, and Immediacy: Rethinking Arendt's Critique of Sovereignty” | Political Science | Columbia University |
| David C. Durst | “Leo Strauss on the Concept of Courage” | Arts, Languages, and Literature | American University in Bulgaria |
| Alexandra Elizabeth Hoerl | “The Double-Edged Sword of Duty: When Ingratitude is Perceived as Injustice” | Political Science | Rutgers University |
| Discussant: Bettina Koch |
Political Science | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | |
| C. Human Nature, Human Virtue - Spruce Room | |||
| Chair: Douglas Casson |
Political Science | St. Olaf College | |
| Laura Grattan | “Re-imagining Democracy, Democratizing Imagination” | Political Science | Duke University |
| J. Maggio Due to a family emergency, J. Maggio will be unable to attend the conference. |
“The Problem of "Aesthetic Individualism" as an Ethical and Political Theory: Badiou, Pyrrhonism, and the Beatles” | Political Science | University of Florida |
| Scott John Hammond | “Plato and Democracy” | Political Science | James Madison University |
| Discussant: Isis Leslie |
Honors College | Texas Tech University | |
| D. Postcolonialism and Political Theory - Balsam Room | |||
| Chair: Cynthia Halpern |
Political Science | Swarthmore College | |
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Keally McBride |
“Keywords of the Twenty-First Century: Finding the Language of Postcolonial Politics” | Politics | University of San Francisco |
| John Randolph LeBlanc | “Unsettling Place: Agamben, Said and the Inoperability of Political Place” | Social Sciences | University of Texas at Tyler |
| Margaret Kohn | “Empire’s Law: Colonialism and the State of Exception” | Political Science | University of Toronto |
| Discussant: Darren Walhof |
Political Science | Grand Valley State University | |
| E. History and Politics - Oak Room | |||
| Chair: Emily Hauptmann |
Political Science | Western Michigan University | |
| Carla Yumatle | “Truth and History in the Foundations of Liberal Democracy” | Political Science | University of California at Berkeley |
Jeanne M. Morefield |
“Liberal Tragedy and the Uses of Imperial History in the Works of Michael Ignatieff and Niall Ferguson” | Politics | Whitman College |
| Anand Bertrand Commissiong | “History, Modernity, and Cosmopolitan Purposes” | Political Science | University of Missouri |
| Alex Schulman | “Immanuel Kant and the Secular Contract” | Political Science | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Discussant: Theresa Lee |
Political Science | University of Guelph | |
| SESSION III: FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER, 3:30 - 5:30 PM |
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| A. Property - Oak Room | |||
| Chair: Isabelle V. Barker |
Political Science | Bryn Mawr College | |
| Eric MacGilvray | “The Rise and Fall of Republican Freedom” | Political Science | Ohio State University |
| Yves Winter | “'Primitive Accumulation' and the Rationality of Violence” | Rhetoric | University of California, Berkeley |
| Annie Stilz | “Property Rights and Global Redistribution” | Political Science | Columbia University |
| Jennifer Einspahr | “Structural Domination Reconsidered” | Political Science | Kalamazoo College |
| Discussant: Paul Gomberg |
Philosophy | Chicago State University | |
| B. Weberian Themes - Balsam Room | |||
| Chair: Elizabeth Markovits |
Political Science | Saint Louis University | |
| Ivan Ascher | “Vocation as Politics: On Max Weber's 'Politik als Beruf'” | Political Science | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doohwan Ahn | “Max Weber’s Machiavellian Moment: Swimming against the Stream of Material Developments” | History | University of Cambridge |
| Kenneth M. Ehrenberg | “Political Obligation under Anarchist Officials: A Problem for Analytic Legal Theory” | Philosophy | University at Buffalo, SUNY |
| Discussant: Peter Breiner |
Political Science | University at Albany, SUNY | |
| C. Global Democracy - Maple Leaf Room | |||
| Chair: Christopher C. Robinson |
Humanities and Social Sciences | Clarkson University | |
| Michael Goodhart | “Democratic Accountability in Global Politics: Norms, Not Agents” | Political Science | University of Pittsburgh |
| Barbara Buckinx | “Non-Domination as a Global Political Ideal” | Politics | Princeton University |
| Breena Holland | “Ecology and the Limits of Justice: Establishing Capability Ceilings in Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach” | Political Science and the Environmental Initiative | Lehigh University |
| William Paul Simmons | "Self-Ascription and Group-Specific Rights: The Definition of Particular Social Groups in U.S. Asylum Law” | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Arizona State University |
| Discussants: Joan Cocks |
Politics and Critical Social Thought |
Mount Holyoke College | |
| Alexander Moon | Politics | Ithaca College | |
| D. The Literary and Cinematic Political - Elm Room | |||
| Chair: Dean DiSpalatro |
Political Science | Concordia University | |
| Martín Plot | “The Question of Political Forms in Lefort and Borges” | Critical Studies | California Institute of the Arts |
| John S. Nelson | “Ten Takes on Justice: Vengeance in the Movies” | Political Science | University of Iowa |
| Beverly A. Gaddy | “The Gift of Death, Redemption and Responsibility: A Political Commentary on Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice” | Political Science | University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg |
| Avery E. Plaw | “King Lear as a Communitarian Critique of Justice” | Political Science | University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth |
| Discussants: The Panelists and Audience |
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| PLENARY SESSION III: FRIDAY, 12 OCTOMBER, 5:45 - 7:00 PM Asher's Dining Room |
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| Topic: Roundtable on Minority (Group) Rights in the Modern Liberal Democratic State | |||
| Chair: Howard L. Lubert |
Political Science | James Madison University | |
| Jacob T. Levy | "On Federalism: Asymmetry, Entrenchment, and Minority Rights" | Political Science | McGill University |
| Discussants: Daniel Marc Weinstock |
Philosophy | Université de Montréal | |
| Melissa Schwartzberg | Political Science | Columbia University | |
| SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER, 9:30 - 11:30 AM |
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| A. Contemporary Engagements with the Enlightenment - Balsam Room | |||
| Chair: Elisabeth Ellis |
Political Science | Texas A&M University | |
| Ryan Patrick Hanley | “Enlightenment's Future” | Political Science | Marquette University |
| Christopher Skeaff | “The Conditions for Rule; Rules that Condition: Reading the Ambivalence of Authority in Spinoza” | Political Science | Northwestern University |
| Bryan Garsten | “Rousseau and Liberalism or, Popular Sovereignty and Representative Government” | Political Science | Yale University |
| James Ingram | “The Best of Intentions: Cosmopolitical Lessons from Kant’s Perpetual Peace” | Political Science | New School for Social Research |
| Discussants: The Panelists and Audience |
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| B. Bodies, Real and Monstrous - Elm Room | |||
| Chair: Mariah Zeisberg |
Political Science | University of Michigan | |
| Elizabeth Ben-Ishai | “Autonomous Selves, Autonomous Bodies: Resistance and the Politics of the Body” | Political Science | University of Michigan |
| Hollie Sue Mann | “Ethics of Care Redux: A Consideration of Corporeality" | Political Science | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Sarah Trimble | “'There can be no community between you and me': Frankenstein, Action, and Utopia” | English and Cultural Studies | McMaster University |
| Discussants: Anne Caldwell |
Political Science | University of Louisville | |
| Sylvia Burrow | Philosophy | Cape Breton University | |
| C. Beyond Daniel Bell's Beyond Liberal Democracy: A Roundtable Discussion - Maple Leaf Room | |||
| Chair: Russell Fox |
Political Science | Friends University | |
| Sara Jordan | "Public Administration beyond Liberal Democracy" | Politics and Public Administration | The University of Hong Kong |
| Leigh Jenco | “Talent, Virtue, and Elitism in Chinese Thought: Roundtable Comments on Daniel Bell‘s Beyond Liberal Democracy” | Political Theory Project | Brown University |
| Wayne LeCheminant | “Beyond Liberal Democracy from the Perspective of Western Political Theory” | Political Science | Loyola Marymount University |
| Justin Tiwald | “Rights and Remedies in Confucian Political Thought” | Philosophy | San Francisco State University |
| Discussant: Daniel Bell |
Philosophy | Tsinghua University | |
| D. Intersubjectivity and Liberalism - Spruce Room | |||
| Chair: Ed Wingenbach |
Government | University of Redlands | |
| Douglas C. Dow | "The Person as a Concept of Legal Recognition" | Political Science | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Jessica M. Flanigan | "Public Reasoning and Political Shame” | Politics | Princeton University |
| Mihaela Czobor-Lupp | “Aesthetic Craving and the Politics of Intercultural Understanding” | Government | Georgetown University |
| Andrew F. Smith | “Liberty of Conscience and Discursive Control” | Philosophy | Illinois Wesleyan University |
| Discussant: Craig Hanks |
Philosophy | Texas State University - San Marcos | |
| SESSION V: SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER, 1:00 - 3:00 PM |
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| A. Critical Theory and the State - Maple Leaf Room | |||
| Chair: John Randolph LeBlanc |
“ | Social Sciences | University of Texas at Tyler |
| Patricia Boling | “A Feminist Critique of Public-Private Theories of the Welfare State” | Political Science | Purdue University |
| Anita Sridhar Chari | "Towards a Political Critique of Reification: Lukács, Honneth and the Aims of Critical Theory" | Political Science | University of Chicago |
| Danny O'Rourke-Dicarlo | “Bridging Internal Reason and External Violence: Toward a Substantive Critical Theory of Law and Politics” | Political Science | York University |
| Discussant: Jacinda Swanson |
Political Science | Western Michigan University | |
| B. Liberalism and Democracy - Elm Room | |||
| Chair: Kennan Ferguson |
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences | University of South Florida | |
| Ben Berger | “Democratizing Energy: Moral and Political Dynamism in Tocqueville, Mill and James” | Political Science | Swarthmore College |
| Alexander Gourevitch | "Hegel’s Police and Ours: The Liberty and Security Debate as a Question of Policing Democracy" | Political Science | Columbia University |
| Sungmoon Kim |
“Beyond Liberal Civil Society: Confucian Filiality and Relational Strangership” |
Government and Politics | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Discussant: Amit Ron |
Centre for Ethics | University of Toronto | |
| C. Religion and Politics - Balsam Room | |||
| Chair: Harvey Brown |
Political Science | University of Western Ontario | |
| Bettina Koch | "The State of Imperfection in Premodern Muslim Political Thought" | Political Science | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Samir Gandesha | “Solidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Fall': Adorno contra Heidegger” | Humanities | Simon Fraser University |
| Discussant: Robyn Marasco |
Political Science | Williams College | |
| D. International Ethics and Non-State Actors - Oak Room | |||
| Chair: Sara Jordan |
Politics and Public Administration | The University of Hong Kong | |
| Jonathan Havercroft | “Social Constructivism as Moral Perfectionism: An Approach to Global Ethics” | Political Science | University of Oklahoma |
| Jennifer Rubenstein | “Nature, Chaos, Bad Guys, Poor People: Aid Narratives and Their Effects” | Politics and Society of Fellows | Princeton University |
| Mark Rigstad | “Military Privatization and Legitimate Authority” | Philosophy | Oakland University |
| Discussant: Michael Goodhart |
Political Science | University of Pittsburgh | |
| E. Friendship and Politics - Spruce Room | |||
| Chair: Elizabeth Wingrove |
Political Science |
University of Michigan | |
| Nina C. Brewer-Davis | "Friend, Family, Citizen: Associative Political Obligation" | Philosophy | University of California, San Diego |
| Mark Kingston | “Subversive Friendships: Foucault on Homosexuality and Social Experimentation” | Philosophy | University of New South Wales |
| David Thunder | “Bringing Justice Close to Home: The Web of Friendship as School of Justice in the Modern Polity” | Postdoctoral Studies | Witherspoon Institute |
| Discussant: Ann C. Davies |
Political Science | Beloit College | |
| SESSION VI: SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER, 3:30- 5:30 PM |
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| A. Douglass and American Identity - Balsam Room | |||
| Chair: Isis Leslie |
Honors College | Texas Tech University | |
| Gregory W. Streich | “The Problems of National Identity in the United States: The Contemporary Importance of Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, and Alain Locke” | Political Science | University of Central Missouri |
| Mariah Zeisberg | “Frederick Douglass, Citizen Interpreter” | Political Science | University of Michigan |
| Nicholas Buccola | “'Every Man Is Himself and Belongs to Himself': Slavery & Self-Ownership as the Foundations of Frederick Douglass’s Liberalism” | Political Science | Linfield College |
| Discussant: Christopher H. Anderson |
Politics and Government | University of Hartford | |
| B. Liberalism and Law - Spruce Room | |||
| Chair: Douglas C. Dow |
Political Science | University of Texas at Dallas | |
| Joseph R. Reisert | “The General Will as the Basis of International Law” | Government | Colby College |
| Douglas Casson | The Paradox of Prerogative, or John Locke and the Limits of Legalism” | Political Science | St. Olaf College |
| Paul Clements | “Rawlsian Program Analysis of the Grameen Bank” | Political Science | Western Michigan University |
| Kennan Ferguson | “Speed Limits and Speed Bumps: The Spaces of Law and Its Lack” | Interdisciplinary Social Sciences | University of South Florida |
| Discussant: Douglas C. Dow |
Political Science | University of Texas at Dallas | |
| C. Paternal States and Reproduction - Oak Room | |||
| Chair: Ann C. Davies |
Political Science | Beloit College | |
| Sam Nelson | “Religion, Value Pluralism, and State Prohibition of Same-Sex Marriage” | Political Science and Public Administration | University of Toledo |
| Jeremy Garrett | “History, Tradition, and the Normative Foundations of Civil Marriage” | Philosophy | Rice University |
| Isabelle V. Barker | "Republican Migration: Non-Citizen Teacher Recruitment and the Case for Critical Theory” | Political Science | Bryn Mawr College |
| Erin Taylor | “Specious Poisons: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and the Gender of Reputation” | Political Science | Western Illinois University |
| Discussant: Simona Goi |
Political Science | Calvin College | |
| D. Challenges to Liberalism - Elm Room | |||
| Chair: Mika LaVaque-Manty |
Political Science | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| Thomas Biebricher | “The Practices of Theorists: Habermas and Foucault as Public Intellectuals” | Political Science | University of Florida |
| Dustin E. Howes | "How Terrorism Challenges Liberal Conceptions of Violence" | Political Science | St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| Lisa Rivera | “Liberalism and Catastrophe" | Philosophy | University of Massachusetts, Boston |
| Miriam Bentwich | “On Wrong Concepts and a Failed Solution: Berlin's Model from Locke's Stance” | Munk Centre for International Studies | University of Toronto |
| Discussant: Andrew Rehfeld |
Political Science | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| PLENARY SESSION IV: SATURDAY, 13 OCTOMBER, 5:45 - 7:00 PM Asher's Dining Room |
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| Topic: Journal Publishing in Political Theory | |||
| Chair: Dennis McEnnerney |
Philosophy | The Colorado College | |
| James Johnson | Political Science Editor, Perspectives on Politics |
University of Rochester | |
| Catherine H. Zuckert | Political Science Editor, The Review of Politics |
University of Notre Dame | |
| BUSINESS MEETING: SUNDAY, 14 OCTOBER, 8 - 10 AM Elm Room |
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see CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
see SUMMARY program
SEE INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS
Revised 19 December 2007