Association for Political Theory 15th Annual Conference University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI October 12-14, 2017 Preliminary Program (subject to change) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Carleton College (mlupp@carleton.edu); Jeffrey Church, University of Houston (jchurch@central.uh.edu). Members: Megan Gallagher, Vanderbilt University (megan.gallagher@vanderbilt.edu); Jennifer Forestal, Stockton University (jennifer.forestal@stockton.edu); Mark Rigstad, Oakland University (rigstad@oakland.edu); Rebecca LeMoine, Florida Atlantic University (rlemoine@fau.edu); Jim Johnson, University of Rochester (jd.johnson@rochester.edu); Monicka Patterson-Tutschka, California State University, Sacramento (mbpatter@csus.edu); Lorraine Krall McCrary, Wabash College (lorrainekrall@gmail.com); Martín Plot, Institute of Advanced Social Studies, UNSAM-CONICET, Argentina (mplot@unsam.edu.ar); Alexander Livingston, Cornell University (pal229@cornell.edu); Judith Grant, Ohio University (grantj1@ohio.edu); Mark Brown, California State University, Sacramento (mark.brown@csus.edu); Tani Sebro, Miami University (tanih@hawaii.edu); R.W. Hildreth, University of Colorado Boulder (roudy.hildreth@colorado.edu); Karen Zivi, Grand Valley State University (zivik@gvsu.edu); Michael Gibbons, University of South Florida (gibbons@usf.edu); Lisa Herzog, Technical University (Munich (lisa.maria.herzog@googlemail.com); Mauro Caraccioli, Virginia Tech (mauroj@vt.edu); Lorna Bracewell, University of Nebraska Kearney (bracewell@unk.edu); Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College (jcocks@mtholyoke.edu); Darren Walhof, Grand Valley State University (walhofd@gvsu.edu); Lisa Disch, University of Michigan (ldisch@umich.edu); Evgenia Ilieva, Ithaca College (eilieva@ithaca.edu); Craig French, College of William and Mary (cpfrench@wm.edu); Sharon Stanley, University of Memphis (sastanly@memphis.edu); Andreas Avgousti, Columbia University (aa2773@columbia.edu); Manu Samnotra, University of South Florida (msamnotra@usf.edu). Local Organizers University of Michigan Co-hosts: Lisa Disch (ldisch@umich.edu); and Arlene Saxonhouse (awsaxon@umich.edu)
Chairs & Discussants Committee Chair: Sara Rushing, Montana State University (sara.rushing@montana.edu) Members: Lorna Bracewell, University of Nebraska Kearney (bracewellln@unk.edu); and Alexander Livingston, Cornell University (pal229@cornell.edu). First Book Manuscript Workshop Selection Committee Chair: Jill Frank, Cornell University (jillfrank@cornell.edu) Members: Alexander Moon, Ithaca College (amoon@ithaca.edu); and Sonali Chakravarti, Wesleyan University (schakravarti@wesleyan.edu) Book Proposal Workshop Selection Committee Chair: Jennie Ikuta, University of Tulsa (jennie-ikuta@utulsa.edu) Members: Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (kennan@uwm.edu); David Williams, DePaul University (david.williams@depaul.edu)
Association for Political Theory Leadership APT Officers Co-Presidents: Michael E. Morrell, University of Connecticut (michael.morrell@uconn.edu) and Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College and Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University (morefijm@whitman.edu). Treasurer: Amit Ron, Arizona State University (amit.ron@asu.edu) Secretary: Alexander Moon, Ithaca College (amoon@ithaca.edu) Communications Secretary: Steven Kelts, Princeton Writing Program (kelts@princeton.edu) Governance Committee Chair: Emily Nacol, University of Toronto (emilynacol@gmail.com) At-Large Members: Sara Rushing, Montana State University (sara.rushing@montana.edu); Lilly Goren, Carroll University, Wisconsin (lgoren@carrollu.edu); and Sonali Chakravarti, Wesleyan University (schakravarti@wesleyan.edu) Past Program Committee Rep: Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount (andrew.dilts@lmu.edu) Standing Committee on Professional Mentoring Chair: Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh (goodhart@pitt.edu) Members: Craig Borowiak, Haverford College (cborowia@haverford.edu); Lorna Bracewell, University of Nebraska at Kearney (bracewellln@unk.edu); Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (kennan@uwm.edu); Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado at Boulder (michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu); Jenni Ikuta, University of Tulsa (jennieikuta@utulsa.edu); Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto (kohn@utsc.utoronto.ca); Keally McBride, University of San Francisco (kdmcbride@usfca.edu); Heather Pincock, Kennesaw State University (hpincock@kennesaw.edu); David Williams, DePaul University (david.williams@depaul.edu). Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusion Chair: Alisa Kessel, University of Puget Sound (akessel@pugetsound.edu) Members: Anand Commissiong, West Texas A&M University (acommissiong@mail.wtamu.edu); Shirin Deylami, Western Washington University (Shirin.Deylami@wwu.edu); Nina Hagel, Bates College (nhagel@bates.edu); Kristy King, Arizona State University (Kristy.M.King@asu.edu); Christopher Robinson, Clarkson University (crobinso@clarkson.edu); Nichole Shippen, CUNY La Guardia (nshippen@lagcc.cuny.edu)
Special Thanks University of Michigan Sponsors The conference is made possible by generous support from the Department of Political Science, The Department of Philosophy, the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, Contexts for Classics, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Humanities Institute, the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Rackham Graduate School, and the UM Office of Research. Special Conference Sponsors Information on Conference sponsors will be available in the final program.
Preliminary Schedule Thursday, October 12 2:00-5:00 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: Decolonizing Political Theory 2:00-5:00 PM First Book Manuscript Workshop 5:15-6:45 Panel on the Work of Dustin Howes 6:45-8:00 PM Opening Reception Friday, October 13 7:00AM 8:00AM-5:00PM 8:00AM-5:00PM 8:30-10:30AM 10:30-11:00AM 11:00AM-1:00PM 1:00-2:15PM Theoretical Run/Walk Registration Book Exhibit and Coffee/Water/Snacks Session I Break Session II 2:15-4:15 Session III 4:15-4:45 Break 4:45-6:45 Session IV 6:45-9:00 Reception and Dinner Lunch: Editor Introductions and First Time Attendee Welcome Saturday, October 14 8:30AM-5:00PM 8:30AM-5:00PM 9:00-10:30AM 10:30-11:00AM 11:00AM-12:30PM 12:30-2:00PM 2:00-4:00PM 4:00-4:30PM 4:30-6:30PM 6:30-8:00 Registration Book Exhibit and Coffee/Water/Snacks Session V: Workshop Panels Break Professional Development Event (Mentoring Committee) Book Proposal Workshop (Mentoring Committee) Pedagogy Session (SCDI) Lunch: Business Meeting and Elections Session VI Break Session VII Closing Reception in Honor of APT Founders Emily Hauptmann and Dennis McEnnerney
2017 Association for Political Theory Preliminary Pre-Conference Schedule 2:00-5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshop Decolonizing Political Theory Convener: Shirin Deylami, Western Washington University (shirin.deylami@wwu.edu) Co-Conveners: Leela Fernandes, University of Michigan (leelaf@umich.edu); and George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University (gjcm@drexel.edu). Participants: Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University (browerm@wfu.edu); Neveser Koker, University of Michigan (nkoker@umich.edu); Althea Sircar, Macalester College (asircar@macalester.edu); Alissa Kessel, University of Puget Sound (akessel@pugetsound.edu); Adam Dahl, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (adahl@umass.edu); Michael Illuzzi, Lesley University (milluzzi@lesley.edu); Elizabeth Markovits, Mount Holyoke College (emarkovi@mtholyoke.edu); Tacuma Peters, Michigan State University (tacumap@msu.edu); Christopher Robinson, Clarkson University (crobinso@clarkson.edu); Julie Webber-Collins, Illinois State University (jawebbe@ilstu.edu); Terrell Carver, Bristol University (tfcarver@earthlink.net); Micah Akuezue, UCLA (makuezue@g.ucla.edu); Renee J. Heberle, University of Toledo (Renee.Heberle@utoledo.edu); Linda Bosniak, Rutgers University (bosniak@law.rutgers.edu); Cristina Beltran, New York University (cbeltran@nyu.edu); Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College and Professorial Fellow, Australian Catholic University(morefijm@whitman.edu); Jack Turner, University of Washington (jturner3@uw.edu); Nichole Marie Shippen, LaGuardia CC, CUNY (nshippen@lagcc.cuny.edu). 2:00-5:00 p.m. First Book Manuscript (all welcome) Beauty is in the Street: Enacting Democracy and Political Friendship by Çiğdem Çıdam, Union College (cidamc@union.edu) Chair: Jill Frank, Cornell University (jillfrank@cornell.edu) Commentators: David Williams, DePaul University (david.williams@depaul.edu); Alexander Livingston, Cornell University (pal229@cornell.edu); and Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado at Boulder (michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu).
5:15-6:45 p.m. Special Panel Nonviolence and Politics: In Memory of Dustin Howes In honor of our late colleague Dustin Howes, a longtime supporter and active member of APT, this roundtable features scholars discussing the implications of Dustin s work on nonviolence for politics today. Welcome and Introduction: Elizabeth Markovits, Mount Holyoke College (emarkovi@mtholyoke.edu); and Susan Bickford, University of North Carolina (bickford@email.unc.edu). Roundtable participants: Karuna Mantena, Yale University (karuna.mantena@yale.edu); John McGowan, University of North Carolina (jpm@email.unc.edu); and Amy Shuster, Ohio State University (amy.l.shuster@gmail.com). Moderator: Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College (jcocks@mtholyoke.edu)
Session I, Friday 8:45-10:45 AM I.A Imagining Resistance Chair: Heather Pincock, Kennesaw State University (hpincock@kennesaw.edu) Refusing Mere Existence, Joel Schlosser, Bryn Mawr College (jschlosser@brynmawr.edu) Lessons from the Original Rainbow Coalition: Turning Stories into Movements, Michael Illuzzi, Lesley University (milluzzi@lesley.edu) Over A Barrel: Ralph Ellison and the Politics of Black Laughter, Patrick Giamario, Johns Hopkins University (pgiamar1@jhu.edu) Counter-Hegemonic Interventions in a Time of Authoritarian Modernism: Egypt s Movement of Peace Supporters, Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University (browerm@wfu.edu) Discussant: William R Caspary, New York University (caspary@aol.com) I.B Markets: Between Logic and Ethics Chair: Jennifer M. Hudson, Washington University in St. Louis (j.hudson@wustl.edu) Hayek, Nozick, and the Riddle of Coercion, Daniel Luban, Yale University (dluban@gmail.com) The Ideal of the Stationary State, Julie Rose, Dartmouth College (julie.l.rose@dartmouth.edu) The Social Subcontract: A Pragmatist Approach to Business Ethics and Democracy, Amit Ron, Arizona State University (amit.ron@asu.edu) and Abraham Singer, Loyola University Chicago (abraham.a.singer@gmail.com) Markets and Market Freedom, Eric MacGilvray, Ohio State University (macgilvray.2@osu.edu) Discussant: Emma Saunders-Hastings, University of Chicago (saundershastings@uchicago.edu) I.C Religion in the Public Realm Chair: Anders Berg-Sørensen, University of Copenhagen (abs@ifs.ku.dk) Against "the Moral System" as a Standard for Public Reason and Religious Accommodation, Muhammad Velji, McGill University (muhammad.velji@gmail.com) Value Pluralism, Negative Liberty, and the Rule of Law, Kenneth McIntyre, Sam Houston State University (kbrmcintyre@yahoo.com) Revisiting Max Weber s Sacrifice of the Intellect, Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis (ssatkunanandan@ucdavis.edu) Beyond Secularism and Establishment: the idea of religious inspiration of politics in the Christian Democratic tradition, Carlo Invernizzi, CUNY City College (carloinvernizzi@gmail.com) Discussant: Andrew Murphy, Rutgers University (armurphy@polisci.rutgers.edu)
I.D Populisms: Local and Global Chair: Jennie Ikuta, University of Tulsa (jennie-ikuta@utulsa.edu) Arendt on Global Populism, Angela Maione, Harvard College (angelamaione@fas.harvard.edu) Empire and Multitude Populism, Attila Antal Eötvös, Loránd University Faculty of Law (antal.attila@ajk.elte.hu) A Democracy Without Opposition: Sieyés, Condorcet and the First French Republic, Alexander Kirshner, Duke University (alexander.kirshner@duke.edu) Dispossession, Honor, and Justice: Populism beyond Enlightenment, John Nelson, University of Iowa (john-nelson@uiowa.edu) Discussant: Benjamin McKean, Ohio State University (mckean.41@osu.edu) I.E Politics of Difference Chair: Alisa Kessel, University of Puget Sound (akessel@pugetsound.edu) Audre Lorde's Politics of Difference, Jack Turner, University of Washington (jturner3@uw.edu) Queering the Social Contract: The Political Theory of the Marquis de Sade, Veronica Zebadua-Yanez, New School for Social Research / Five College Women's Studies Research Center (Mount Holyoke College), (veronica.zebadua@gmail.com) Popper's Broken Spell: The Open Society and Its Closures, Wout Cornelissen, Vanderbilt University (woutcornelissen@gmail.com) Bandita: Against a Dual System Interpretation of Iris Young s Work, Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado at Boulder (michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu) Discussant: Lorna Bracewell, University of Nebraska Kearney (bracewellln@unk.edu) I.F Temporality in the Anthropocene Chair: Mark Brown, California State University, Sacramento (mark.brown@csus.edu) Taking One s Time: On Time as Resource, Good, or Experience, Luke Plotica, Virginia Tech (luke.plotica@vt.edu) Philanthropy s BioPolitical Turn: A Framework for Reassessing Philanthropy s Effect on Political Subjectivity, Amy Schiller, CUNY Graduate Center (abschill@gmail.com) The Politics of Contagion: Immunity and Community in Modern Plague Narratives, Emily Nacol, University of Toronto (emilynacol@gmail.com) The Gathering of Norms: On Canguilhem and Normativity in the Anthropocene, Lars Tønder, University of Copenhagen (lt@ifs.ku.dk) Discussant: Jennifer Corby, Kingsborough Community College (jcorby@gradcenter.cuny.edu)
Session II, Friday 11:15 AM-12:45 PM II.A Politics in Virtual Reality Chair: Lilly Goren, Carroll University, Wisconsin (lgoren@carrollu.edu) Individuality in the Age of Online Personalization, Luise Papcke, Columbia University (lmp2159@columbia.edu) Podcasts, Genres, and Public Things, Danielle Hanley, University of Pennsylvania (hanleyd@sas.upenn.edu) A Case Study in Deliberation: The Icelandic Constitution, Delia Popescu, Le Moyne College (popescd@lemoyne.edu) and Matthew Loveland, Le Moyne College (lovelam@lemoyne.edu) Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Democratic Theory and the Problem of Boundaries, Jennifer Forestal, Stockton University (jennifer.forestal@stockton.edu) Discussant: Mark Rigstad, Oakland University (rigstad@oakland.edu) II.B Civil Disobedience Chair: Inder Marwah McMaster University (marwahi@mcmaster.ca) Putting Noncombatants at Risk: Human Shields, Nonviolent Protesters, and Provocations to Violence, Shawn Kaplan, Adelphi University (kaplan@adelphi.edu) Fearless Disobedience: King and the Paradox of Nonviolence, Alexander Livingston, Cornell University (pal229@cornell.edu) Rethinking Arendt on Refusal: Conscientious Objection in Turkey, Pinar Kemerli, Brown University (pinar_kemerli@brown.edu) Citizen-Subjectivity, Resistance and Solidarity: Reading Haraway's Staying with the Trouble in Troubled Times, Sara Rushing, Montana State University (sara.rushing@montana.edu) and Karen DeVries, Montana State University (karen.devries@montana.edu) Discussant: Vicki Hsueh Western Washington University (vicki.hsueh@wwu.edu) II.C On Political Rule in Antiquity Chair: Dwight Allman Baylor University (Dwight_Allman@baylor.edu) The Three Heads of Tyranny: Registers of Countersubversion in Politics 5.11, Jordan Jochim, Cornell University (jdj74@cornell.edu) Learning from Kokumin: Popular sovereignty in Japan's emperor organ theory, Chungjae Lee, The University of California, Irvine (chungjal@uci.edu) and Stacey Liou, The University of California, Irvine (sliou1@uci.edu) On the Exceptionalism of Imperial Republics, Daniel Kapust, University of Wisconsin, Madison (djkapust@wisc.edu) The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality, David Williams, DePaul University (david.williams@depaul.edu)
Discussant: Jill Frank, Cornell University (jf725@cornell.edu) and Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan (awsaxon@umich.edu) II.D Losses, Vulnerabilities, Disabilities Chair: Daniela Mansbach, University of Wisconsin- Superior (dmansbac@uwsuper.edu) What Concept of Vulnerability Does Normative Political Theory Need?, Frédérick Armstrong, McGill (frederick.armstrong@mail.mcgill.ca) Madness, Medicine, and Power: The De-Politicized Politics of Mental Health, Anna Daily, University of Colorado Boulder (anna.daily@colorado.edu) Audience of One: Justification of war and the psychology of moral injury, Abram Trosky, United States Coast Guard Academy (atrosky@bu.edu) The cruel optimism of sexual consent, Alisa Kessel, University of Puget Sound (akessel@pugetsound.edu) Discussant: Heather Pincock, Kennesaw State University (hpincock@kennesaw.edu) II.E Citizenship and Political Participation Chair: Torrey Shanks, University of Toronto (torreyshanks@gmail.com) Reinterpreting Maternalist Rhetoric on Suffrage, Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton (fischer@udayton.edu) Be Afraid: Virginia Woolf's Citizenship without Comfort, Anne Manuel, University of Michigan (amanuel@umich.edu) The Moral Limits of Democratic Citizenship, Kevin Elliott, Columbia University (kevin.j.elliott@columbia.edu) The Taxpaying Citizen, Timothy McCarty, University of San Diego (tmccarty@sandiego.edu) Discussant: Nick Zavediuk, Saint Louis University (zavediuk@slu.edu) II.F Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism: Causes and Effects Chair: Amy Shuster The Ohio State University (amy.l.shuster@gmail.com) Arendt on Three Modes of Totalitarian Enmity, Ingrid Creppell, George Washington University (creppell@gwu.edu) Ethos and Elites: Aron, Maritain, Camus, and the Problem of Liberal Heroism, Joshua Cherniss, Georgetown University (jlc306@georgetown.edu) Making Critical Theory Great Again: Contemporary Authoritarianism, The Frankfurt School and Socialization, Toby Rollo, University of British Columbia (rollotob@mail.ubc.ca) Between Ambiguity and Judgment: Jaspers, Levi, and Politics in the Gray Zone, Giunia Gatta, Bocconi University (giunia.gatta@unibocconi.it) Discussant: Simona Forti, University of Eastern Piedmont (simona.forti@uniupo.it)
Session III, Friday 2:00-4:00 PM III.A Forms of Violence Chair: Mark Rigstad, Oakland University (rigstad@oakland.edu) Between Subjection and Freedom: Pateman and Prison Democracy, Shai Gortler, University of Minnesota (gortler@umn.edu) Antislavery fighting and the struggle to define slave competence, Daniel Nichanian, University of Chicago (daniel.nichanian@gmail.com) Politicizing Paranoia: Hannah Arendt s Rahel Varnhagen, Sigmund Freud s Daniel Paul Schreber, and Two Private Germanys, Noga Rotem, Brown University (noga_rotem@brown.edu) The Self-Defending Subject, George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University (gjcm@drexel.edu) Discussant: Hagar Kotef, SOAS, University of London (hagarko@gmail.com) III.B Comparative Political Thought Chair: Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University (brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu) Daoism and Freedom: Zhuangzi and the Foundations of Human Rights, Lincoln Rathnam, Davidson College (lefrathnam@gmail.com) Choosing Maturity, Thomas Meagher, University of Connecticut (thomas.meagher@uconn.edu) Critical Rumblings: Theorizations of Democracy in Arab Political Thought, Yasmeen Daifallah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (ydaifallah@polsci.umass.edu) Aristotle, Allah and the Future of Islam, Robert Schaefer, University of West Georgia (rschaefe@westga.edu) Discussant: Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University (browerm@wfu.edu) III.C Kant and His Legacy Chair: Timothy Waligore, Pace University (tpw2001@columbia.edu) Progressively Realized Human Rights, Jiewuh Song, Seoul National University (jiewuh@gmail.com) Kant, Love of Honor, and Sustaining Good Politics, Antong Liu, Duke University (antong.liu@duke.edu) Kant and Neoliberal Legitimations of the State, Benjamin McKean, Ohio State University (mckean.41@osu.edu) The Phenomenal Inhuman: Nature's Politics from Kant to Meillassoux, Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (kennan@uwm.edu) Discussant: Elisabeth Ellis, University of Otago (lisa.ellis@otago.ac.nz)
III.D Corporations and Governance Chair: Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado at Boulder (michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu) Corporation, Police, Economy: A Corporate Genealogy of Police Power and Political Economy, Paul Gutierrez, Brown University (paul.gutierrez@brown.edu) Adam Smith on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: An Exploration into the Time of Corporate Logic, Jennifer Corby, Kingsborough Community College (jcorby@gradcenter.cuny.edu) Best Aspirations of Democratic Spirit": John Stuart Mill on Socio-Economic Equality, Salih Emre Gercek, Northwestern University (gercek@u.northwestern.edu) The Properties of Liberal Virtue, Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin- Madison (avramenko@wisc.edu) Discussant: David Williams, Queen Mary University London (david.williams@qmul.ac.uk) III.E Communities and Religions Chair: Benjamin Arah, Bowie State University (barah@bowiestate.edu) Commercial Piety, Political Agency, Religious Identity, Darren Walhof, Grand Valley State University (walhofd@gvsu.edu) The error of his own bonds : Contract, Freedom, and Gender in Milton s Divorce Tracts, Megan Gallagher, Vanderbilt University (megan.gallagher@vanderbilt.edu) Collective Identity and the Principle of Subsidiarity, David Golemboski, University of Missouri (golemboskid@missouri.edu) Citizenship Education, Non-Domination, and Religious Diversity, Blain Neufeld, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (neufeld@uwm.edu) Discussant: Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Armstrong State University (daniel.skidmorehess@armstrong.edu) III.F Reason and Value in Deliberative Democracy Chair: Susan Liebell, Saint Joseph's University (susan.liebell@gmail.com) Stout s unconstrained discourse: Does reason-giving apply across the board?, Deven Burks, Université du Luxembourg (deven.burks@uni.lu) Deliberation and the Marginalized Self: Reciprocity and the Self/Other Relation, Rebecca Traber, Yale University (rebecca.traber@yale.edu) William James's Democratic Theory of Value, Stephen Bush, Brown University (stephen_bush@brown.edu) Directly Representative Democracy, Michael Neblo, Ohio State University (neblo.1@osu.edu) Discussant: Amit Ron, Arizona State University (amit.ron@asu.edu)
Session IV, Friday 4:30-6:30 PM IV.A Refugees, States and Statelessness Chair: Dennis Lunt, Bemidji State University (dalunt@gmail.com) Mourning the Nation: Populism, Violence, and the Ungrievable Refugee, Matt Frierdich, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (matthew.d.frierdich@vanderbilt.edu) Neoliberalism, Anti-Statism, and the Legacy of Liberal Democracy in the 2016 Malheur Wildlife Refuge Occupation, Juho Turpeinen, University of Helsinki (juho.turpeinen@helsinki.fi) The Right to Have Rights and Juridical Sleights: Towards a Constructively Cynical Appraisal of Statelessness, John McGuire, University College Dublin, School of Philosophy (johnthomasmcguire@gmail.com) Moving Dangerously: Necromobility and the Border-Zone, Tani Sebro, Miami University, Ohio (sebroth@miamioh.edu) Discussant: Ayten Gundogdu, Barnard College (agundogdu@barnard.edu) IV.B Marx and Modern Commercial Society Chair: Stephanie Martens, Laurentian University (smartens@laurentian.ca) Between Equal Rights, Force Decides: Agency, Conflict, and Organizing in Marx's Capital, Vijay Phulwani, Cornell University (vijay.phulwani@gmail.com) The Supplemented Proletariat: Marx, Marxism, and the Dilemmas of Revolutionary Agency, Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Armstrong State University (daniel.skidmorehess@armstrong.edu) The Political Economy of Sensation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Luxury in Modern Political Thought, Lucas Pinheiro, University of Chicago (lucaspinheiro@uchicago.edu) Corporate Autonomy, Katharine Jackson, Columbia University (kvjack1@gmail.com) Discussant: Benjamin Arah, Bowie State University (barah@bowiestate.edu) IV.C Affects in Politics Chair: Mark Button, University of Utah (mark.button@poli-sci.utah.edu) (White) Women for Trump : Conservative Feminism and the Affective Politics of Rage in the 2016 Election, Holloway Sparks, Georgia State University (hsparks@gsu.edu) Alexa, AutoMarxism, Affect, and Alienation: The Feminine Mystique in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence, John McMahon, Beloit College (mcmahonja@beloit.edu) and Amy Schiller, The Graduate Center, CUNY (abschill@gmail.com) Despair and the Temporal Structure of Democratic Citizenship, Nathan Pippenger, University of California, Berkeley (nathan.pippenger@berkeley.edu)
When is Enlightenment? Nostalgia and Moral Action in Rousseau s Émile, Julie, and Lettres morales, Martin McCallum, McGill University (martin.mccallum@mail.mcgill.ca) Discussant: Lars Tønder, University of Copenhagen (lt@ifs.ku.dk) IV.D Political Uses and Abuses of Language Chair: Daniel Kapust, University of Wisconsin, Madison (djkapust@wisc.edu) Backlash as Narrative, Kathleen Tipler, University of Oklahoma (ktipler@gmail.com) The Uses of Impropriety, Torrey Shanks, University of Toronto (torreyshanks@gmail.com) Starting with Rhetoric: Critical Potential and the Hermeneutic Circle, Simon Lambek, University of Toronto (simon.lambek@mail.utoronto.ca) Modernity's Undertone: On Reconceptualizing Political Speech, Derefe Chevannes, University of Connecticut (derefe.chevannes@uconn.edu) Discussant: Desiree Weber, College of Wooster (desireeweber@gmail.com) IV.E Colonial Legacies Chair: Jack Turner University of Washington (jturner3@uw.edu) India, Evolutionism and Colonial Time-Scales, Inder Marwah, McMaster University (marwahi@mcmaster.ca) Civilizing Phantoms: Missionaries, Reformers, and the Muslim Woman Question, Neveser Koker, University of Michigan (nkoker@umich.edu) Theft is Property! The Recursive Logic of Dispossession, Robert Nichols, University of Minnesota (rbnichol@umn.edu) What Kind of Moral Problem are Land Use Controversies?, Loren King, Wilfrid Laurier University (lking@wlu.ca) Discussant: Inés Valdez, Ohio State University (inevaldez@gmail.com) IV.F Judgment, Knowledge, and Citizenship Chair: Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona (sdovi@email.arizona.edu) The finest rule of life we have": on the value of ambiguity for democratic praxis, Amy Shuster, The Ohio State University (amy.l.shuster@gmail.com) New Realism, Political Liberalism, and the Limits of Real Politics, James Ingram, McMaster University (jingram1@gmail.com) The Duty to Vote as a Duty of Common Pursuit, Julia Maskivker, Rollins College (jmaskivker@rollins.edu) Epistemic Injustices and Political Responsibilities in Medina and Taylor, Dennis McEnnerney, The Colorado College (dmcennerney@coloradocollege.edu) Discussant: Simone Chambers, UC Irvine (sechambe@uci.edu)
Session V (Workshop Panels), Saturday 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Workshop Panel V.A Community and Distributive Justice Overlapping Consensus Thin and Thick: John Rawls and Simone Weil, Aviad Heifetz, Open University of Israel (aviad.heifetz@gmail.com) and Enrico Minelli University of Brescia (enrico.minelli@unibs.it) How We Choose When We Choose Justice, David Wiens, UC San Diego (wiensd@gmail.com) Durkheim on social justice: from commutative to distributive, Lisa Herzog, Technical University, Munich (lisa.maria.herzog@googlemail.com) Chair: Julia Maskivker, Rollins College (jmaskivker@rollins.edu) Workshop Panel V.B Justice and Climate Change A Grounded Normative Theory of Climate Change Justice: theorizing from the coast of climate change, Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University (brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu) The Conceptual Challenge of Biodiversity Loss for Democratic Theory, Elisabeth Ellis, University of Otago (lisa.ellis@otago.ac.nz( Environmentalism and Two-Hundred Years in the Aftermath of Thoreau, Joshua Bowman, Louisiana State University (bowmanjosh@hotmail.com) Chair: Andy Scerri, Virginia Tech (ajscerri@vt.edu) Workshop Panel V.C Political Judgment Locke, Cumberland, and Legislating Consequences, Alex Tuckness, Iowa State University (tuckness@iastate.edu) Political Judgment in a Troubled World: Wittgenstein on Contested Meaning, Desiree Weber, College of Wooster (desireeweber@gmail.com) Perspective and Resistance: Cervantes and the Role of Imagination in Politics, Katherine Robiadek, University of Wisconsin-Madison (robiadek@wisc.edu) Chair: Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis (ssatkunanandan@ucdavis.edu) Workshop Panel V.D Post-Truth Politics Judgment, Sincerity, and Truth: The Liberal Roots of Post-Factual Politics, Ian MacMullen, Washington University in St. Louis (irm7@duke.edu) Seeing through lies: Plato s Republic on how to avert tyranny, Jill Frank, Cornell University (jf725@cornell.edu)
Authenticity in the Age of Post-Truth and Right Populism, Nina Hagel, Bates College (nhagel@bates.edu) Chair: Joel Schlosser Bryn Mawr College (jschlosser@brynmawr.edu) Workshop Panel V.E Wage Slavery and Commodification in the Contemporary Market Freedom and Contemporary Financial Markets, Joshua Preiss, Minnesota State University-Mankato (joshua.preiss@mnsu.edu) Constitutional Commodification, Amy Sepinwall, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania (sepin@wharton.upenn.edu) and Eric Orts, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania (ortse@wharton.upenn.edu) The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom, Revisited: Voluntary Simplicity and Liberation from Employment, Samuel Arnold, TCU (s.arnold@tcu.edu) Chair: Julie Rose, Dartmouth College (julie.l.rose@dartmouth.edu) Workshop Panel V.F Race and the Struggle for Rights Political Movement(s): Taking Flight and Making Home in the White Polity, Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia (klb3q@virginia.edu) Defending Equality: The Armed Struggle for Black Civil Rights, Susan Liebell, Saint Joseph's University (susan.liebell@gmail.com) Black Lives Matter and the Matter of Love, Sean Butorac, University of Washington (sbutorac@uw.edu) Chair: George Shulman, Gallatin School of New York University (gms1@nyu.edu)
Special Sessions, Saturday 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Pedagogy Panel: Teaching in the Age of Trump Nichole Marie Shippen, LaGuardia CC, CUNY (nshippen@lagcc.cuny.edu) Anand Commissiong, West Texas A&M University (acommissiong@mail.wtamu.edu) Book Proposal Workshop Participants TBD Chair: Jennie Ikuta, University of Tulsa (jennie-ikuta@utulsa.edu) Professional Development Event Participants TBD
Session VI, Saturday 2:00-4:00 PM VI.A Revolutionary Thinking Chair: Nina Hagel, Bates College (nhagel@bates.edu) Rethinking the Haitian Revolution: Violence, Marronage, and the Coloniality of Gender, Tacuma Peters, Michigan State University (tacumap@msu.edu) Between German Idealism and Spanish Liberalism: The Revolutionary Legacy of Krausism, Brendon Westler, University of Wisconsin, Madison (bwestler@wisc.edu) Love and Violence, Hagar Kotef, SOAS, University of London (hagarko@gmail.com) Loyalists and Royalists: Toward a Political Theory of Loyalty, Noah Eber-Schmid, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (neberschmid@polisci.rutgers.edu) and Andrew R. Murphy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (armurphy@polisci.rutgers.edu) Discussant: George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University (gjcm@drexel.edu) VI.B Social Science and Social Control Chair: Robert Martin, Hamilton College (rmartin@hamilton.edu) Against the New Behaviorism: The Democratic Costs of Nudges, Mark Button, University of Utah (mark.button@poli-sci.utah.edu) Has Political Science Contributed to American Democracy s Exhaustion?, Phillip Logan, Temple University (tuf64962@temple.edu) The Human Condition and the Problem of Scientific Action, Mie Inouye, Yale University (mie.inouye@yale.edu) Arendt and the Algorithm: Rereading The Human Condition in the Digital Age, Kiran Banerjee, University of Toronto (k.banerjee@utoronto.ca) Discussant: Emily Hauptmann, Western Michigan University (emily.hauptmann@wmich.edu) VI.C Sovereignty and Law Chair: Lisa Herzog, Technical University, Munich lisa.maria.herzog@googlemail.com) Overcoming The Tyranny of Popular Sovereignty: From the Unitary State to the Polyarchal Republic, David Thunder, University of Navarra (dthunder@unav.es) Rousseau s Sparta: What Lycurgus Tells Us about the Lawgiver, Christopher Hallenbrook, Bloomsburg University (challenb@bloomu.edu) and R. Lee McNish, University of California, Davis (rwmcnish@ucdavis.edu) Rethinking Popular Sovereignty: Tocqueville s Defence of Democratic Legitimacy, Giulia Oskian, Yale University (giulia.oskian@yale.edu) Isomorphism Must Be Defended: Political Theory, Immigration, and Transnationalism, Inés Valdez, Ohio State University (inevaldez@gmail.com) Discussant: Emily Nacol, University of Toronto (emilynacol@gmail.com)
VI.D The Politics of Memory Chair: Sigal Ben-Porath, University of Pennsylvania (sigalbp@upenn.edu) A New Great Awakening: Surviving (and learning from?) American Rhetorical History, Kyle Haines, UC San Diego (kyhaines@ucsd.edu) Renewing of the Common World: Arendt and Derrida on Forgiveness and the Politics of Reconciliation, Tal Correm, Allegheny College (tcorrem@allegheny.edu) The Dialectics of Violence: the negation of politics and its condition of possibility, Alex Betancourt, University of Puerto Rico (freudiano@gmail.com) Determining Cultural Membership through Genealogy, Dianne Lalonde, Western University (dlalond3@uwo.ca) Discussant: Joshua Mousie, Emory University (jmousie@emory.edu) VI.E Race and Representation in Liberal Democracies Chair: Lawrie Balfour University of Virginia (klb3q@virginia.edu) The People or the Population? Race and Popular Sovereignty in the United States, Michael Gorup, Cornell University (michael.gorup@gmail.com) Aristocracy in America: Tocqueville's Theory of White Privilege, Jennie Ikuta, University of Tulsa (jennie-ikuta@utulsa.edu) and Trevor Latimer, Dartmouth College (trevor.latimer@dartmouth.edu) Creolizing Natural Liberty: Ottobah Cugoano on Slavery and Property, Adam Dahl, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (adahl@umass.edu) Absences in Representation, Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona (sdovi@email.arizona.edu) Discussant: Matthew Voorhees, Arizona State University (matthew.voorhees@asu.edu) VI.F Liberalism After Rawls Chair: Neveser Koker University of Michigan (nkoker@umich.edu) Contributive justice and fairness norms in taxation, Kimberly Chuang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (kwchuang@umich.edu) Liberal Justification: Epistemic, not Moral or Political, Felix Gerlsbeck, Technical University of Munich (felix.gerlsbeck@tum.de) Rawls s Self-Defeat : How the Utilitarian Dog Bit the Rawlsian Hand that Fed It, Hun Chung, University of Rochester (hunchung1980@gmail.com) The Pluralist City and the Rational County, Russell Fox, Friends University (foxr@friends.edu) Discussant: Jacob Levy, McGill University (jtlevy@gmail.com)
Session VII, Saturday 4:30-6:30 PM VII.A Realism and Non-Ideal Theory Chair: Giunia Gatta Bocconi University (giunia.gatta@unibocconi.it) Political Equality and Democratic Realism, Emma Saunders-Hastings, University of Chicago (saundershastings@uchicago.edu) On the Realist Opposition of Politics and Morality, Benjamin Schupmann, Yale- NUS (ben.schupmann@yale-nus.edu.sg) Justice and Street-Level Bureaucracy: Bringing Political Theory to Bear on Social Casework, Daniel Engster, University of Texas at San Antonio (daniel.engster@utsa.edu) and Matt Edge, Cambridge Acorn Project Justice in Babylon, Jacob Levy, McGill University (jtlevy@gmail.com) Discussant: Derek Barker, Kettering Foundation (derek.w.barker@gmail.com) VII.B Bodies in Politics Chair: Dennis McEnnerney, The Colorado College (dmcennerney@coloradocollege.edu) Sex Work as Therapy?: Critical reflections on therapeutic discourses of sex work, Lorna Bracewell, University of Nebraska Kearney (bracewellln@unk.edu) (In)articulable Pain: The Body is the Political, Sarah Naumes, York University (sarah.naumes@gmail.com) Resistance in the Flesh: Political Lessons from Pussy Riot, Althea Sircar, Macalester College (asircar@macalester.edu) The Nonhuman Condition: Arendt s Phenomenology of Living Beings, Ayten Gundogdu, Barnard College (agundogdu@barnard.edu) Discussant: Jocelyn Boryczka, Fairfield University (jboryczka@fairfield.edu) VII.C Nation-State, Human Rights, and Security Chair: Linda Bosniak, Rutgers University (bosniak@camlaw.rutgers.edu) The Geopolitical Origins of Arendt's Federal Turn, Anna Jurkevics, Yale University (anna.jurkevics@yale.edu) Are Cultural and National Minorities Collective Agents? Renewed Normative Grounds for Collective Rights, Éliot Litalien, McGill University (eliot.litalien@mail.mcgill.ca) The Rule of State and Empire: Sovereignty, Borders and Authority, Björn Hammar, Örebro University, Sweden (bjorn.hammar@oru.se) Liberty, Security, and the Degenerative Cycle of Democracy, William Barclay, University of Ottawa (willbarclay13v@gmail.com) Discussant: Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh (goodhart@pitt.edu)
VII.D Myth and Utopia Chair: Ingrid Creppell, George Washington University (creppell@gwu.edu) The Negative Utopianism of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, Matthew Cole, Harvard (mbenjamincole@fas.harvard.edu) Mimesis Revived: Post-Politics and Moral Authority, Andy Scerri, Virginia Tech (ajscerri@vt.edu) Sexual Revolution as Social Revolution, Kevin Duong, Bard College (kduong@bard.edu) Where is the Female Captain America?: Superpowers and Gendered Power, Lilly Goren, Carroll University, Wisconsin (lgoren@carrollu.edu) and Linda Beail, Point Loma Nazarene University (LindaBeail@pointloma.edu) Discussant: James Ingram McMaster University (jingram1@gmail.com) VII.E Resistance, Mobilization and Solidarity Chair: Sara Rushing, Montana State University (sara.rushing@montana.edu) The Unstable Alliance for School Choice : On the Ideological Reach of American Neoliberalism, Ashleigh Campi, Scripps College (acampi@uchicago.edu) Criminal Foucault: Infrapolitics, Gangs, and Expropriations, Delio Vasquez, University of California Santa Cruz (dvasque4@ucsc.edu) Political Resilience and Resistance in Dark Times, George Shulman, Gallatin School of New York University (gms1@nyu.edu) Collaboration, Resistance, and a Politics of Implication in Sari Nusseibeh's Palestine/Israel, John LeBlanc, University of Texas at Tyler (rleblanc@uttyler.edu) Discussant: Adam Dahl, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (adahl@umass.edu) VII.F Indigenous Thought Chair: Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (kennan@uwm.edu) Inhuman hospitality: encounters in the dead city, Inna Viriasova, Acadia University (iviriaso@alumni.uwo.ca) Indigenous Politics in Political Theory, Old Problems and New Answers, Stephanie Martens, Laurentian University (smartens@laurentian.ca) Towards a political theory of radical isolation, from the case of so-called isolated indigenous groups, Fabián Flores, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (fflores@uc.cl) The Limitation of Nationality: Revisiting David Miller s On Nationality, Simon Sihang Luo, Indiana University (luos@iu.edu) Discussant: David Temin, University of Michigan (dtemin@umich.edu)