2010 Program
Friday, November 5
12:00 p.m. Coffee and Registration
12:45 p.m. Opening Remarks (Timothy Colton, Chair, Department of Government)
01:00 p.m. Equality: Mobility and Choice
- Jørgen Bølstad (European University Institute), "Avoiding Anomie: A Defense of Rawls on Social Mobility"
- Gideon Elford (University of Oxford), "Equality, Choice and Alternatives: Why Reasonable Avoidability Matters"
02:15 p.m. Break
02:45 p.m. From Liberalism to Democracy
- Jeffrey Howard (University of Oxford), “Reflective Citizenship, Political Legitimacy, and the Democracy/Contractualism Analogy”
- James Bourke (Duke University), “Giving Incommensurability Its Due: From Liberalism to Democracy in Value Pluralist Theory”
- Katrina Forrester (University of Cambridge), “Judith Shklar and Political Realism”
04:30 p.m. Break
05:00 p.m. Keynote Address
- Bryan Garsten (Yale University), “Being Represented”
Saturday, November 6
10:15 a.m. Coffee and refreshments
10:45 a.m. Christianity in Political Thought
- Jennie Ikuta (Brown University), “False But Useful: On the Future of Christianity in Nietzsche’s Philosophy”
Joseph Hartman (Georgetown University), “Pico Della Mirandola’s Theological Anthropology? An Inquiry Into Pico’s Account of Human Origins in the Oration on the Dignity of Man”
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. 17th Century Political Thought
- Sandra Field (Princeton University), “Civil right and power in Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise”
- Ryan Griffiths (McGill University), “Consent and Practice: The Logic of Grotius’s The Rights of War and Peace”
- Sophie Smith (University of Cambridge), “Democracy, Hobbes and the Aristotelian Tradition”
02:45 p.m. Closing Remarks (Eric Nelson)