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 Rawls on Social Mobility"
- Gideon Elford (University of Oxford), "Equality, Choice and Alternatives: Why Reasonable Avoidability Matters"
02:15 p.m. Break
02:45 p.m. From Liberalism to Democracy
- Jeffrey Howard (University of Oxford), “Reflective Citizenship, Political Legitimacy, and the Democracy/Contractualism Analogy”
- James Bourke (Duke University), “Giving Incommensurability Its Due: From Liberalism to Democracy in Value Pluralist Theory”
- Katrina Forrester (University of Cambridge), “Judith Shklar and Political Realism”
04:30 p.m. Break
05:00 p.m. Keynote Address
- Bryan Garsten (Yale University), “Being Represented”
Saturday, November 6
10:15 a.m. Coffee and refreshments
10:45 a.m. Christianity in Political Thought
- Jennie Ikuta (Brown University), “False But Useful: On the Future of Christianity in Nietzsche’s Philosophy”
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Joseph Hartman (Georgetown University), “Pico Della Mirandola’s Theological Anthropology? An Inquiry Into Pico’s Account of Human Origins in the Oration on the Dignity of Man”
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. 17th Century Political Thought
- Sandra Field (Princeton University), “Civil right and power in Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise”
- Ryan Griffiths (McGill University), “Consent and Practice: The Logic of Grotius’s The Rights of War and Peace”
- Sophie Smith (University of Cambridge), “Democracy, Hobbes and the Aristotelian Tradition”
02:45 p.m. Closing Remarks (Eric Nelson)