2013 Program

Friday 18 October

01:30­02:00 p.m. Registration and coffee

02:00–02:10 p.m. Opening Remarks: Michael Frazer

02:10–03:30 p.m. Panel 1 (Chair: Andrea Tivig)

  • Alasia Nuti (Cambridge) and Sara Amighetti (University College London), "National Responsibility for Historical Injustice Reconsidered: The Idea of a Shared Redress" (Discussant: Jonathan Gould)
  • Stephen G.W. Stich (Arizona), "A Dilemma for Political Liberalism" (Discussant: Tsin Yen Koh)

03:30–04:50 p.m. Panel 2 (Chair: Emma Saunders­-Hastings)

  • Harrison P. Frye (Virginia), "Is There a Role for Envy in a Liberal Society? Rawls, Distributive Justice, and Social Unity" (Discussant: Syed Shimali Reza)
  • Ann K. Heffernan (Chicago), "What Remains Unsaid: Confronting the Ethical Turn in Disability Studies" (Discussant: Steven Serna)

05:00–07:00 p.m. Keynote Address (CGIS S010: Tsai Auditorium)

  • Sharon Krause (Brown), "Plural Freedom" (Discussant: James Brandt)

Saturday 19 October

10:30–11:50 p.m. Panel 3 (Chair: Joe Muller)

  • Matthias Brinkmann (Oxford), "The Failure of Rights­Based Arguments for Voluntarism" (Discussant: Jacob Roundtree)
  • Kevin J. Elliott (Columbia), "The Priority of Inclusion and the Dangers of Deliberative Mini-Publics" (Discussant: Jonathan Bruno)

11:50–01:10 p.m. Panel 4 (Chair: Greg Conti)

  • Johan Olsthoorn (KU Leuven), "Why Justice and Injustice Have No Place Outside the Hobbesian State" (Discussant: Sungho Kimlee)
  • Jamie Trace (Cambridge), "Rethinking Trade as a Reason of State: Giovanni Botero and his Reception in Early Seventeenth­-Century England" (Discussant: Adam Lebovitz)

01:10–02:00 p.m. Lunch

02:00­03:20 p.m. Panel 5 (Chair: Rita Koganzon)

  • Alexander Orwin (Chicago), "Beauty, Diversity, and Transience: Revisiting Democracy in Alfarabi and Averroes" (Discussant: Rory Schacter)
  • Adom Getachew (Yale), "The Federalists in the Black Atlantic: The Origins of Post­-Colonial Federations in the West Indes and Africa" (Discussant: John Harpham)

03:20–03:30 p.m. Closing Remarks:Michael Rosen