2017 Program

Friday October 27, 2017

1:30                   Coffee and Registration (CGIS-S 020)

2:00                   Conference Opening

2:15                   Panel 1  (CGIS-S 020)

• Johan A. Trovik, "Hegel on Alienation and Reconciliation"
• Antong Liu, "Rousseauean Pity Revisited: A New Justification for its Naturalness and Moral Significance”
• David Ragazzoni, "Political Compromise in Party Democracy: An Overlooked Puzzle in Kelsen’s Democratic Theory"

4:30                   Coffee

5:00                   Keynote Address            (Tsai Auditorium)

                          Anna Stilz, "Theorizing Collective Self-Determination”

Saturday October 28, 2017

10:30                 Breakfast and Coffee (CGIS-K 354)

11:00                 Panel 2 (CGIS-K 354)

• Erin Miller, "Caretaker Responsibility: A Reductive Account of Moral Responsibility for Group Acts"
• Arina Cocoru, "Justified Silences? Abstentions in Legislative Assemblies"

12:30                 Lunch

1:30                   Panel 3 (CGIS-K 354)

• Zhichao Tong, "Tocqueville on the Limits of Political Meritocracy"
• Lisa Gilson, "Remodeling Reform: Emerson’s New Social Critique for Antebellum America"
• Brian Jones, "Political Liberalism and the Search for Associative Forms of Life"

3:45                   Coffee