Friday, October 30
10:45 am Welcome
11:00 am Representation and Accountability
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Alin Fumurescu (University of Indiana at Bloomington), "Lost in Translation: Centripetal Individualism and the Classical Concept of Descending Representation"
- Gordon Arlen (University of Chicago), "J.S. Mill on Democratic Politics and the Working Class: Towards a Critique of Accountability"
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Nietzsche
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Matt Dinan (Baylor University),"'Decadent Socrates, Ascetic Nietzsche:' Reconsidering Nietzsche’s Ascetic Ideal"
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Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge), "Theorising the Politics of Purity: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Culture Wars"
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Keynote Address
- Bonnie Honig (Northwestern University), "Antigone, Interrupted: Humanism and the Future of Democratic Theory" (Discussant: Matthew Landauer)
Saturday, October 31
10:00 am Breakfast
10:30 am Liberalism and Legitimacy
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Javier Hidalgo (Princeton University), "Rights to Immigrate and Exclude"
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Mathew Coakley (New York University), "The Problem of Political Legitimacy"
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Politics and Culture
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Thea Riofrancos (University of Pennsylvania), "A Taxonomy of Spectacle: Rousseau’s Critique of the Theater"
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Sophie Nicholls (University of Cambridge), "Relating the political to the divine: Jean Bodin in the Catholic League, 1589"
2:30 pm Break
3:00 pm Toleration
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Murad Idris (University of Pennsylvania), "Hayy ibn Yaqzān and the Ethics of Letting Be: The Muslim Question Beyond Appropriation and Getting Along"
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Teresa Bejan (Yale University), "'Missionary Toleration'? Roger Williams on Conversation and Conversion"
4:30 pm Closing Remarks