2012 Program

Friday 26 October

12:00pm Coffee and Registration

12:45pm Opening Remarks: Eric Beerbohm

01:00pm Contemporary Considerations (Chair: Yascha Mounk)

  • Shmuel Nili (Yale), "Between Domestic and Global Justice"  (Discussant: Will Selinger)
  • Juliana Bidadanure (York), "Which Inequalities Between Generations Matter?" (Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk)
  • Govind Persad (Stanford), "Disruptive Change and Rawlsian Justice" (Discussant: Shim Reza)

03:00pm Break

03:15pm Democratic Institutions and Procedures (Chair: Tsin Yen Koh)

  • Cameron Cotton-O'Brien (McGill), "Waldron's Abberant Algebra: Problems at the Core of the Core Case" (Discussant: Adam Lebovitz)
  • Alexander Stubberfield (Virginia Tech), "The Voter's Thin Veil of Ignorance: A Rawlsian Justification for the Ideal Electoral Process" (Discussant: Sabeel Rahman)

04:45pm Break

05:00pm Keynote Address

  • Bernard Yack, Brandeis University, "The Moral Value of Community: And the Moral Problem with Nationalism" (Discussant: Andrea Tivig)

Saturday 27 October

10:30am Coffee and Refreshments

11:00am Problems of Punishment (Chair: Madhav Khosla)

  • Benjamin Ewing (Princeton), "Non-Domination, Reactive Attitudes, and Criminal Responsibility" (Discussant: Arjun Ramamurti)
  • Jeffrey Howard (Oxford), "Punishment, Socially Deprived Offenders, and Democratic Community" (Discussant: James Brandt)

12:30pm Lunch

01:30pm Historical Considerations (Chair: Sungho Kimlee)

  • Ross Carroll (Northwestern), "The 'Test of Ridicule' in Shaftesbury'sLetter Concerning Enthusiasm: Good Humor as Political Virtue" (Discussant: Greg Conti)
  • Maximilian Jaede (St. Andrews), "Hobbes on the Psychology of Conflict and the Containment of Enemies" (Discussant: Brad Hinshelwood)
  • Christopher Brzovic (McGill), "Arendt's Hermeneutics of Facticity: Reconsidering the Heideggarian Influence" (Discussant: Rory Schacter)

03:30pm Closing Remarks: Michael Frazer