#  2011 Program 

 



#### Friday, October 28

12:00pm Coffee and Registration

12:45pm Opening Remarks ([Nancy Rosenblum](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~nrosenbl/))

1:00 pm **Issues in Contemporary Theory**

- [Alex Levitov](/people/alex-levitov) (Princeton), "Political Legitimacy and Respect for Agency" (Discussant: Bernardo Zacka)
- [Brian Coyne](/people/brian-coyne) (Stanford), "Assent and Non­Dissent in Democratic Politics " (Discussant: Jennifer Page)
- [Ariel Mendez](/people/ariel-mendez) (Stanford), “Establishing Limits on Electoral Money: The Meaning of ‘Free’ in Freedom of Speech” (Discussant: TBA)

2:45 pm Break

3:00 pm **Rawlsian Reconsiderations**

- [Julie Rose](/people/julie-rose) (Princeton), “Leisure as a Distinct Object of Distributive Justice” (Discussant: James Brandt)
- [Caleb Yong](/people/caleb-yong) (Princeton/Oxford), “Migration and Rawls's Law of Peoples: Problems of Non­Ideal Theory” (Discussant: TBA)

4:30 pm Break

5:00 pm **Keynote Address**

- [Patchen Markell](/people/patchen-markell) (University of Chicago), "The Moment Has Passed: Power after Arendt" (Discussant: Sabeel Rahman)

#### Saturday, October 29

10:15 am Coffee and Refreshments

10:45 am **Hobbes**

- [Geoffrey Sigalet](/people/geoffrey-sigalet) (Princeton), “Whither the Wethercockes? The Structure of Hobbesian Obligation” (Discussant: Brad Hinshelwood)
- [Jens Olesen](/people/jens-olesen) (Oxford), “Contextualizing Hobbes: Quentin Skinner’s Method Reconsidered” (Discussant: Yascha Mounk)

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm **Envisioning the Self in the 18th and 19th Centuries**

- [Onur Ince](/people/onur-ince) (Cornell), “Edmund Burke and the Vicissitudes of Colonial Capitalism” (Discussant: Gladden Pappin)
- [Julia Schwarz](/people/julia-schwarz) (Georgetown), “Tocqueville and Nietzsche on the Use and Disadvantages of Democratic History” (Discussant: Rita Koganzon)
- [Daniel Luban](/people/daniel-luban) (Chicago), “Bernard Mandeville as Moralist and Materialist” (Discussant: Greg Conti)

2:45 pm **Liberalism and Its Critics**

- [Michael Rogers](/people/michael-rogers) (Cambridge), “The Development of Carl Schmitt's Political Thought During the First World War” (Discussant: Adam Lebovitz)
- [Gordon Arlen](/people/gordon-arlen) (Chicago), “The Lost Genre of Liberal Theory: A Case for Revisiting Louis Hartz” (Discussant: Josh Cherniss)

4:00 pm Closing Remarks ([Michael Rosen](http://scholar.harvard.edu/michaelrosen/home))



 



 

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