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Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University

2013 Keynote Lecturer

Danielle Allen is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the...

Joshua Cohen

Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University

2007 Keynote Lecturer

Joshua Cohen is a political theorist, trained in philosophy, with a special interest in issues that lie at the intersection of democratic norms and institutions. He has written extensively on issues of democratic theory, particularly deliberative...

Bryan Garsten

Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Yale University

2010 Keynote Lecturer

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science and the Humanities, and Chair of the Humanities Program, at Yale University. He is the author of Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006) as well as articles on...

Robert Gooding-Williams

M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

2015 Keynote Lecturer

Robert Gooding-Williams holds appointments at Columbia University in both the Philosophy Department and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), where he is a member of the Core Faculty and founding director of the Center for Race...

Bonnie Honig

Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University

2009 Keynote Lecturer

Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the departments of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. She is author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993), Democracy and the Foreigner...

Sharon Krause

Professor of Political Science, Brown University

2013 Keynote Lecturer

Sharon Krause is Professor of Political Science and the author of Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism (University of Chicago Press, 2015); Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation (Princeton University Press...

Patchen Markell

Associate Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago

2011 Keynote Lecturer

Patchen Markell has wide-ranging interests in contemporary political and social theory and the history of political thought. He is especially interested in the disparate theoretical traditions that trace their roots back to Kant, Hegel, and Marx; in the...

Martha C. Nussbaum

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago

2018 Keynote Lecturer

Martha C. Nussbaum received her BA from NYU and her MA and PhD from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago...

David Runciman

Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge

2008 Keynote Lecturer

Professor Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include late-nineteenth and twentieth century political thought; theories of the state and of political representation; and various aspects of contemporary...

Anna Stilz

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

2017 Keynote Lecturer

Anna Stilz is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her research focuses on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism and self...

Bernard Yack

Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy, Brandeis University

2012 Keynote Lecturer

Bernard Yack is a political theorist who has published widely on both contemporary issues and major figures in the history of political thought. He is best known for his new book on nationalism ( Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community) and his...

Sara Amighetti

University College London

Sara Amighetti's paper (with Alasia Nuti) for the 2013 conference is entitled, "National Responsibility for Historical Injustice Reconsidered: The Idea of a Shared Redress".

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