9:00 AM – 9:45 AM: “At the Limits of Ostracism: Reform, Recall, and Return of Expelled Individuals in Athens and Rome,” Sal Salamanca (Princeton)
Respondent: Haidun Liu
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM: “Montesquieu’s Liberal Empire: Conquest and Doux Commerce,” Robert Spadidakis (McGill)
Respondent: Mathis Bitton
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM: “Rationality and the Case Against Paternalism,” Jose Sanchez (Princeton)
Respondent: Matthew Cohen
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: “Why Give Respect to Convention? Austenian Reasons to Be Civil,” Jialin Liang (Yale)
Respondent: Jan-Paul Sandmann
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: “The Principle of Pooh: Ernst Bloch, Utopia and the Emancipatory Possibilities of Children’s Literature,” Martha Pitre (McGill)
Respondent: Hannah Kunzman
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM: “Getting Free from Gender,” Ophelia Vedder (Princeton)
Respondent: Abbie LeBlanc
4:00 PM – 5:45 PM: Keynote lecture by Dr. Alex Gourevitch