2025 Program

HARVARD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY 2025

Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of October

 Location: Safra Center, 124 Mount Auburn Street, 5th floor, Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room

Friday Oct 24th

1:00 PM: Welcome reception with coffee and snack

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Emma Schmidt (Notre Dame) - Truthfulness and Democratic Politics: Lessons from Thucydides

Respondent: Fred Larsen

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM: Loren Reinoso (Yale) - Elections, Practical Knowledge, and the Doctrine of Double Effect: An Anscombean Theory of Citizens’ Shared Agency

Respondent: Haidun Liu

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Professor Jason Frank (Cornell)

6:30 PM: Dinner

Saturday Oct 25th

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM: Ming Kit Wong (Oxford) - Utopia and Hope in the Thought of Judith Shklar

Respondent: Abbie LeBlanc

11:00 AM – 11:45 PM: Victor Wu (Yale) - Sortition and the Problem of Executive Aggrandizement: A Comparative Systems Analysis

Respondent: Juliet Paiva

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM: Melanie Erspamer (London School of Economics) - Institutitionalizing Freedom: An Analysis of Neo-Republicanism and Social Freedom

Respondent: JP Sandmann

2:30 PM – 3:15 PM: Samuel de Brouwer (York University, Canada) - From Revolution to Democracy: The Intellectual Foundations of the Gauchet-Abensour Polemic

Respondent: Vivek Banerjee 

3:30 PM: Closing remarks