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Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory

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About the Conference Each year during the Fall semester, the Department of Government at Harvard University hosts its annual conference for graduate students in political theory and political philosophy. It is a forum for the best graduate work in our...

2017 Program

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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...

2023 Program

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9:00 AM – 9:45 AM: “At the Limits of Ostracism: Reform, Recall, and Return of Expelled Individuals in Athens and Rome,” Sal Salamanca (Princeton) Respondent: Haidun Liu 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM: “Montesquieu’s Liberal Empire: Conquest and Doux Commerce,”...

2019 Program

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Friday 10/4 in CGIS K354 2:30 - 3: Registration and coffee 3 - 4:30: Session I - Gauri Wagle, "Counterimagination and the Imperfect Politics of Freedom" (discussant: Soren Dudley) - Kelsey Brady, "Justice as Fairness is a Theory of our Moral Sentiments"...

2022 Program

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2022 Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory April 8 | CGIS South S250 Huguette and Michel Porté Seminar Room 10:00am-10:15am - Coffee & Pastries | Concourse & S250 CGIS South 10:15am-10:55am - Ewa Nizalowska (Cornell University): Theory as...

2025 Program

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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...

Bryan Garsten

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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...

2015 Program

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Friday, October 23 01:30 p.m. Coffee and Registration 02:00 p.m. Opening Remarks 02:15 p.m. Democracy and its Critics John Halstead (Oxford University), "High Stakes Instrumentalism” (Discussant: James Brandt) Daniel Pietrucha (University of Virginia),...

2010 Program

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Friday, November 5 12:00 p.m. Coffee and Registration 12:45 p.m. Opening Remarks ( Timothy Colton, Chair, Department of Government) 01:00 p.m. Equality: Mobility and Choice Jørgen Bølstad (European University Institute), "Avoiding Anomie: A Defense of...

2009 Program

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Friday, October 30 10:45 am Welcome 11:00 am Representation and Accountability Alin Fumurescu (University of Indiana at Bloomington), "Lost in Translation: Centripetal Individualism and the Classical Concept of Descending Representation" Gordon Arlen...

2014 Program

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Friday, October 31 2:30PM: Coffee and Registration 3:00PM: Opening Remarks ( Eric Nelson) 3:15PM: International Political Theory (Chair: Jennifer Page) Jakob Huber (LSE), “No Right to Unilaterally Claim Your Territory” (Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk) Ardevan...

2016 Program

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Friday, October 21 01:45 p.m. Coffee and Registration 02:15 p.m. Opening Remarks 02:30 p.m. Panel 1 – CGIS South 153 “The Particularity Requirement in Territorial Justice” Ben Mueser, Columbia University (Respondent: Joshua Simons) “The Problem of the...