#  2009 Program 

 



#### Friday, October 30 

10:45 am Welcome

11:00 am **Representation and Accountability**

- [Alin Fumurescu](/people/alin-fumurescu) (University of Indiana at Bloomington), "Lost in Translation: Centripetal Individualism and the Classical Concept of Descending Representation"
- [Gordon Arlen](/people/gordon-arlen) (University of Chicago), "J.S. Mill on Democratic Politics and the Working Class: Towards a Critique of Accountability"

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm **Nietzsche**

- [Matt Dinan](/people/matt-dinan) (Baylor University),"'Decadent Socrates, Ascetic Nietzsche:' Reconsidering Nietzsche’s Ascetic Ideal"
- [Robbie Duschinsky](/people/robbie-duschinsky) (University of Cambridge), "Theorising the Politics of Purity: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Culture Wars"

3:00 pm Break

3:30 pm **Keynote Address**

- [Bonnie Honig](/people/bonnie-honig) (Northwestern University), "Antigone, Interrupted: Humanism and the Future of Democratic Theory" (Discussant: Matthew Landauer)

#### Saturday, October 31 

10:00 am Breakfast

10:30 am **Liberalism and Legitimacy**

- [Javier Hidalgo](/people/javier-hidalgo) (Princeton University), "Rights to Immigrate and Exclude"
- [Mathew Coakley](/people/mathew-coakley) (New York University), "The Problem of Political Legitimacy"

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm **Politics and Culture**

- [Thea Riofrancos](/people/thea-riofrancos) (University of Pennsylvania), "A Taxonomy of Spectacle: Rousseau’s Critique of the Theater"
- [Sophie Nicholls](/people/sophie-nicholls) (University of Cambridge), "Relating the political to the divine: Jean Bodin in the Catholic League, 1589"

2:30 pm Break

3:00 pm **Toleration**

- [Murad Idris](/people/murad-idris) (University of Pennsylvania), "Hayy ibn Yaqzān and the Ethics of Letting Be: The Muslim Question Beyond Appropriation and Getting Along"
- [Teresa Bejan](/people/teresa-bejan) (Yale University), "'Missionary Toleration'? Roger Williams on Conversation and Conversion"

4:30 pm Closing Remarks



 



 

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