2022 Program

2022 Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory

April 8 | CGIS South S250 Huguette and Michel Porté Seminar Room


10:00am-10:15am - Coffee & Pastries | Concourse & S250 CGIS South


10:15am-10:55am - Ewa Nizalowska (Cornell University): Theory as Translation:
Gramsci's Reading of Machiavelli
Respondent: Eric Fabri


11:00am-11:40am - Tristan Hughes (Princeton University): The Logic of Delegation
Respondent: Jacob Hoerger


11:45am-12:25pm - Jordan Walters (McGill University): The Aptness of Envy
Respondent: Jan-Paul Sandmann


12:25pm-1:15pm - Lunch | concourse & S250 CGIS South


1:15pm-1:55pm - Samuel Piccolo (University of Notre Dame): Indigenous Thought and
Comparative Political Theory
Respondent: Abbie LeBlanc


2:00pm-2:40pm - Kai Yui Samuel Chan (UC Berkeley): A Pragmatist Conception of
Border Practices
Respondent: Liya Nahusenay


2:45pm-3:25pm - Chris Chambers (Yale University): Bad Laws, Worse Habits:
Townsend's Critique of the Poor Laws and the Philosophical Anthropology of the Poor
Respondent: Sarah Gustafson


3:25pm-4:20pm - Break

4:30pm-6:00pm - Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Keynote lecture in association with the Global Political Thought
Conference | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)