2026 Program

HARVARD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY

Friday 30th and Saturday October 31st

 Location: Safra Center, 124 Mount Auburn Street, 5th floor

DAY 1: Friday 30th of October

1:00 PM: Welcome reception with coffee and snack

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Eli Frankel (University of Chicago) - Impersonal Rule and Market Legitimacy

Respondent: Juliette Marchant

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM: Mayaki Kimba (Columbia University) - Occupying the Police Club: Reading Social History as Political Thought

Respondent: Abbie LeBlanc

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Professor Melvin Rogers (Brown University) - From Souls to Darkwater: Du Bois, Race, and the Crisis of Modernity

6:30 PM: Dinner for Conference Presenters

DAY 2: Saturday 31st of October

Coffee and snacks will be provided throughout the day. 

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM: Ana Pascoe Rodriguez (Columbia University) - The Allure of the Digital Agora: Undoing the Legibility of the Demos

Respondent: Dominic Carrese

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM: Nevo Spiegel (Tel Aviv University/Yale) Secularism and the Stability of Liberalism

Respondent: Haidun Liu

12:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM: Baltazar Dydensborg (Oxford) - Locke, the Common Earth and the “Divines”

Respondent: Vivek Banerjee

2:30 PM – 3:15 PM: Deven Mukkamala (Duke University) - Machiavelli’s Imperialism and the Italian Wars

Respondent: Fred Larsen

3:30 PM: Closing remarks