2018 Program

Friday, Oct. 19: CGIS South 020

Coffee and Registration, 2:00 p.m.

Conference Opening and Panel I, 2:30 p.m.

Republicanism without Guarantees: A Corporeal Conception of Epistemic Democracy

         Utku Cansu, Duke University (Respondent: Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis)

Up Close and Personal: Domination, Agency, and the Problem of Many Masters

         Orlando Lazar, University of Oxford (Respondent: Brian Palmiter) 

Capital’s Colony: Antislavery, Racial Labor, and the Origins of Liberal Empire

         Lucas G. Pinheiro, University of Chicago (Respondent: Justin Pottle)

Keynote Lecture, Fong Auditorium, 5:30 p.m.

Working With and For Animals: Getting the Theoretical Framework Right 

         Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics

         University of Chicago (Respondent: Priya Menon)

Saturday, Oct. 20: CGIS Knafel 354

Breakfast and Coffee, 10:30 a.m.

Panel II, 11:00 a.m.

What is “Schumpeterianism” Anyway? Re-examining the Treatment of Elites in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

         Natasha Piano, University of Chicago (Respondent: Dimitrios Halikias)

Reciprocity and the Case of Disability in Contractarian Theories of Justice

         Yunmeng Cai, University of Oxford (Respondent: Tweedy Flannigan) 

Collectivizing Public Reason: Groups as Persons in Political Liberalism

         Lars Moen, Australia National University (Respondent: Celia Eckert) 

Lunch, 12:30 p.m.

Panel III, 1:30 p.m. 

John Locke on Religious Toleration: “Sincerity” and Civil Order

         Julia Brown, Northwestern University (Respondent: Jacob Hoerger) 

Hegel on Religion, Education & Modernity

         Darren Nah, Yale University (Respondent: William Tilleczek) 

The Sleeping Subject:  On the Use and Abuse of Imagination in Hobbes’s Leviathan

         Avshalom M. Schwartz, Stanford University (Respondent: Liam Klein) 

Coffee, 3:00 p.m.