Conference on the 500th Anniversary of Machiavelli's Prince

The conference will have four panels over two days and will be held in the Belfer Case Study Room, S020, on the Concourse level of the CGIS South Building, located at 1730 Cambridge St. in Cambridge.

 
Thursday, September 19, 4-6 pm
Panel 1: Is Machiavelli a Philosopher? 
Panelists:  Ioannis Evrigenis (Tufts); Christopher Lynch (Carthage); Harvey Mansfield (Harvard); Waller Newell (Carleton)

Friday, September 20, 9-11 am
Panel 2:  Is Machiavelli a Civic Humanist?  Or a figure of the Renaissance? 
Panelists:  James Hankins (Harvard); John McCormick (Chicago); Eric Nelson (Harvard); Paul Rahe (Hillsdale)

Friday, September 20, 11am-1pm
Panel 3:  Is Machiavelli a Moralist or a Realist?
Panelists:  Erica Benner (Yale); Michelle Clarke (Dartmouth); Clifford Orwin (Toronto)

1-2 pm:  LUNCH

Friday, September 20, 2-4 pm
Panel 4:  How does Machiavelli Regard Religion?
Panelists:  William Connell (Seton Hall); William Kristol (The Weekly Standard); Vickie Sullivan (Tufts); Nathan Tarcov (Chicago)