2008 Program

Friday, October 31 

11:00 am Registration and Lunch

12:45 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

1:00 pm Session I

  • Hans Christian Siller (Yale University), “Kantian Constitutionalism, Foundational Violence, and the Sources of Legitimacy” (Discussant: Bernardo Zacka)

  • Jeremy Farris (University of Oxford), “How to be a Good Anarchist” (Discussant: Don Tontiplaphol)

2:30 pm Break

2:45 pm Session II (Chair: Daniela Cammack)

  • Mark Hanin (University of Cambridge), “Misrepresentation of God’s Role in Pufendorf’s Theory of Natural Law” (Discussant: Sam Goldman)

  • Onur Ince (Cornell University), “Morality of Accumulation: John Locke’s Theory of Money in the ‘Second Treatise of Government’” (Discussant: Michael Nitsch)

4:15 pm Break

4:30 pm Keynote Address

  • David Runciman (University of Cambridge), "Does it Make Sense to Discount Liberty?"

6:30 pm Reception

Saturday, November 1 

10:00 am Light Breakfast 

10:30 am Session III (Chair: Matt Landauer)

  • Genevieve Rousseliere (Princeton University), “A Case for Economic Democracy: John Stuart Mill and the Development of Individuality” (Discussant: Prithvi Datta)

  • Ryan Griffiths (McGill University), “An Anthropomorphic Categorical Imperative: The Impartial Spectator” (Discussant: Joe Kochanek)

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Session IV (Chair: Bettina Scholz)

  • Gabriel Wollner (University College London), “Framing, Reciprocity, and the Grounds of Egalitarian Justice” (Discussant: Lucas Stanzcyk)

  • Jesse Tomalty (University of St. Andrews), “Challenging the Institutional Conception of Human Rights” (Discussant: Andreea Tivig)

  • Sarah Goff (Princeton University), “Where Should We Dump our Global Justice Obligations? Not on International Institutions” (Discussant: Sabeel Rahman)

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Session V

  • Alex Livingston (University of Toronto), “Avoiding Deliberative Democracy: Connolly, Deleuze, and the Public Sphere” (Discussant: Emily Gustafson)

  • Shatema Threadcraft (Yale University), “Black Feminist Theory and the Post­-Emancipation Struggle for Intimate Equality” (Discussant: Emma Saunders­-Hastings)

4:45 pm Closing Remarks