#  2010 Program 

 



#### Friday, November 5

12:00 p.m. Coffee and Registration

12:45 p.m. Opening Remarks ([Timothy Colton, Chair, Department of Government](http://scholar.harvard.edu/timothycolton))

01:00 p.m. **Equality: Mobility and Choice**

- [Jørgen Bølstad](/people/j%C3%B8rgen-b%C3%B8lstad) (European University Institute), "Avoiding Anomie: A Defense of Rawls on Social Mobility"
- [Gideon Elford](/people/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](/people/jeffrey-howard) (University of Oxford), “Reflective Citizenship, Political Legitimacy, and the Democracy/Contractualism Analogy”
- [James Bourke](/people/james-bourke) (Duke University), “Giving Incommensurability Its Due: From Liberalism to Democracy in Value Pluralist Theory”
- [Katrina Forrester](/people/katrina-forrester) (University of Cambridge), “Judith Shklar and Political Realism”

04:30 p.m. Break

05:00 p.m. **Keynote Address**

- [Bryan Garsten](/people/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](/people/jennie-ikuta) (Brown University), “False But Useful: On the Future of Christianity in Nietzsche’s Philosophy”
- [Joseph Hartman](/people/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](/people/sandra-field) (Princeton University), “Civil right and power in Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise”
- [Ryan Griffiths](/people/ryan-griffiths) (McGill University), “Consent and Practice: The Logic of Grotius’s *The Rights of War and Peace*”
- [Sophie Smith](/people/sophie-smith) (University of Cambridge), “Democracy, Hobbes and the Aristotelian Tradition”

02:45 p.m. Closing Remarks ([Eric Nelson](http://scholar.harvard.edu/ericnelson/))



 



 

 See also:- [ Conference Programs ](/conference-programs)
- [ 2010 ](/year/2010)