Friday, October 28
12:00pm Coffee and Registration
12:45pm Opening Remarks (Nancy Rosenblum)
1:00 pm Issues in Contemporary Theory
- Alex Levitov (Princeton), "Political Legitimacy and Respect for Agency" (Discussant: Bernardo Zacka)
- Brian Coyne (Stanford), "Assent and NonDissent in Democratic Politics " (Discussant: Jennifer Page)
- Ariel Mendez (Stanford), “Establishing Limits on Electoral Money: The Meaning of ‘Free’ in Freedom of Speech” (Discussant: TBA)
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Rawlsian Reconsiderations
- Julie Rose (Princeton), “Leisure as a Distinct Object of Distributive Justice” (Discussant: James Brandt)
- Caleb Yong (Princeton/Oxford), “Migration and Rawls's Law of Peoples: Problems of NonIdeal Theory” (Discussant: TBA)
4:30 pm Break
5:00 pm Keynote Address
- Patchen Markell (University of Chicago), "The Moment Has Passed: Power after Arendt" (Discussant: Sabeel Rahman)
Saturday, October 29
10:15 am Coffee and Refreshments
10:45 am Hobbes
- Geoffrey Sigalet (Princeton), “Whither the Wethercockes? The Structure of Hobbesian Obligation” (Discussant: Brad Hinshelwood)
- Jens Olesen (Oxford), “Contextualizing Hobbes: Quentin Skinner’s Method Reconsidered” (Discussant: Yascha Mounk)
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Envisioning the Self in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Onur Ince (Cornell), “Edmund Burke and the Vicissitudes of Colonial Capitalism” (Discussant: Gladden Pappin)
- Julia Schwarz (Georgetown), “Tocqueville and Nietzsche on the Use and Disadvantages of Democratic History” (Discussant: Rita Koganzon)
- Daniel Luban (Chicago), “Bernard Mandeville as Moralist and Materialist” (Discussant: Greg Conti)
2:45 pm Liberalism and Its Critics
- Michael Rogers (Cambridge), “The Development of Carl Schmitt's Political Thought During the First World War” (Discussant: Adam Lebovitz)
- Gordon Arlen (Chicago), “The Lost Genre of Liberal Theory: A Case for Revisiting Louis Hartz” (Discussant: Josh Cherniss)
4:00 pm Closing Remarks (Michael Rosen)