2024 Program

HARVARD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY 2024

Friday 25th and Saturday 26th of October

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

Friday Oct 25th

1:00 PM: Welcome reception with coffee and snack

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Jordan Walters (McGill): “What We Owe to the Dead.”

Respondent: Liya Haefner

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM: Jan Henrik Wasserziehr (LSE): “The Question Concerning Technology as a Question in Political Theory.”

Respondent: Mathis Bitton

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Emma Planinc.

6:30 PM: Dinner

Saturday Oct 26th

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM: Alberto Alcaraz (Brown): “Don Quijote and the Scandal of Telling.”

Respondent: Abbie LeBlanc

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM: Evelyn Behling (Notre Dame): “Mill’s Comtean History in the Argument of

On Liberty”

Respondent: Matt Cohen

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Shirley Le Penne (Cornell): “Guillotining the Political.”

Respondent: Sophia Anastazievsky

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Jihyun Jeong (Duke): “Victimhood as a Positive Political Resource.”

Respondent: Juliette Marchant

3:00 PM: Closing remarks