POLITICAL THEORY PANELS ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CANADIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION JUNE 1-3 2010, MONTREAL PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE, as of March 20 2010 TUESDAY JUNE 1 / MARDI 1 JUNE 9 am - 10:30 am / 9h00 - 10h30 G1(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle : Non-ideal theory after Rawls Chair/Président: Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (McGill) Michael Kates (NYU), Justice in Nonideal Theory Dana Howard (Brown), The Scoundrel and the Visionary: Rawls on Reasonable Hope Alan Hamlin and Zofia Stemplowka (Reading), Theory, Ideal Theory and Theory of Ideals Kristina Meshelski (Virginia), Ideal Theory and the Basic Structure Discussant /Commentateur: Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (McGill) G1(b): Hobbes Chair/Président: Travis Smith (Concordia) Evan Oxman (McGill), Hobbes on Self-Reflexivity Graham Howell (Carleton), God-like Ruler and the Mortal God: Julius Caesar and Thomas Hobbes‘ Leviathan Alison McQueen (Cornell), 'Feigning the World to be Annihilated': Thomas Hobbes and the Apocalyptic Imaginary Discussant /Commentateur: Travis Smith (Concordia) G1(c): The Scottish Enlightenment Chair/Président: Neven Leddy (Ottawa) Emily Nacol (Vanderbilt), Making Civil Subjects: 18th Century Tools for the Study of Society Marc Hanvelt (Carleton), Pluralism, Politeness, and the Public Sphere: Hume on Freedom of the Press Ryan Griffiths (McGill), The Virtuous Liberal Politics of Sentimentalism Rob Sparling (Ottawa), Towards a Theory of Corruption Discussant /Commentateur: Neven Leddy (Ottawa) TUESDAY JUNE 1 / MARDI 1 JUNE 10:45 am - 12:15 pm / 10h45 - 12h15 G2(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Children and Education Chair/Présidente: Samantha Brennan (UWO) Andrew Rehfeld (Washington - St. Louis), Responsible Political Rights for Children Daniel Weinstock (Montréal), Schools as Political Institutions Jeffrey Bercuson (Toronto), Politics and Moral Learning: Kant, Hegel and Rawls on Institutional Socialization Douglas Hanes (McGill), 'Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children!': Children's Suffering and the Ideology of Adulthood Discussant/Commentatrice: Samantha Brennan (UWO) G2(b): Consent and Contract Chair/Président: Evan Oxman (McGill) Mara Marin (Chicago), What Consent Theory Can Tell Us about Authority Alex Levitov (Princeton), Legitimacy Beyond Consent? Trevor Latimer (California – Los Angeles), The Illusion of Contract Joshua Broady Preiss (Bucknell), Is Social Contract Theory Impotent in Response to Political and Economic Violence? Discussant/Commentateur: Evan Oxman (McGill) G2(c): Roundtable: Melvin Roger's "The Undiscovered Dewey" Chair/Président: Eric MacGilvray (Ohio State) Participants: James Johnson (Rochester) Rogers Smith (Penn) Robert Taylor (Vermont) Melvin Rogers (Virginia) Eric MacGilvray (Ohio State) G2(d): Culture, Identity, and Tradition Chair/Président: Guy Laforest (Laval) Avigail Eisenberg (Victoria), Can the Norms of Effective Participation and Identity be Reconciled? Catherine Frost (McMaster), The Culturalist Critique of Multiculturalism Isabelle Bernard (Ottawa), L'interprétation de la tradition comme enjeu politique : exemple de la pratique Akan de Sankofa Keith Haysom (Ottawa), A Republic of Recognition? Parsing Charles Taylor's Multiculturalist Republicanism Discussant/Commentateur: Guy Laforest (Laval) TUESDAY JUNE 1 / MARDI 1 JUNE 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm / 13h45 - 15h30 G3(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Radically Non-ideal Circumstances: Violence and Historic Injustice Chair/Président: Burke Hendrix (Franklin and Marshall) Zachary Williams (California – Los Angeles), The Violent Limits of Discourse Ethics James Sterba (Notre Dame), Reparations and the Requirements of Distributive Justice Timothy Waligore (Queen's), Non-Ideal Theory and Contexts of Historic Injustice Ingrid Makus (Brock), The Ethics of Ambiguity: Moral Choice and Deliberation in Resistance to War Discussant/Commentateur: Burke Hendrix (Franklin and Marshall) G3(b): Spinoza and Rousseau Chair/Présidente: Hasana Sharp (McGill) Christopher Skeaff (Michigan), A Singular Power: The Right to Expression in Spinoza Lee Ward (Regina), Benedict Spinoza and the Problem of Theocracy Leslie Wee (Toronto), Emile's Anti-egalitarian Egalitarianism: The Limits of Emilian Compassion Discussant/Commentatrice: Hasana Sharp (McGill) G3(c): Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: Christina Tarnopolsky, Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame Chair/Présidente: Jill Frank (South Carolina) Participants: Christina Tarnopolsky (McGill) Jill Frank (South Carolina) Ryan Balot (Toronto) Arlene Saxonhouse (Michigan) Aleksandra Wagner (The New School) G3(d): International Institutions Chair/Présidente: Margaret Moore (Queen‘s) Daniel Voelsen (Free), Promoting Democracy by Means of Foreign Occupation? On Legitimate and Illegitimate Goals of International Transitional Administrations Neil Hibbert (Saskatchewan), Global Justice and Institutional Scope Carmen Pavel (Virginia), Romanticizing Institutions: World Government and Institutional Dysfunction Discussant/Commentatrice: Margaret Moore (Queen‘s) TUESDAY JUNE 1 / MARDI 1 JUNE 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm / 15h45 - 17h15 G4(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Non-ideal Constitutional Theory Chair/Présidente: Yasmin Dawood (Toronto) Ryan Pevnick (NYU) and Kathleen Doherty (Virginia), Non-Ideal Reasons for Judicial Review Evan Fox-Decent (McGill) and Evan Criddle (Syracuse), Emergency Powers: Insights from Fiduciary Theory William Roberts (McGill), Pessimism and Anti-State Politics Wayne Norman (Duke), How “Non-Ideal” Must our Theories be for Deliberatively Adversarial Institutions? Discussant/Commentatrice: Yasmin Dawood (Toronto) G4(b): Critical Questions Chair/Président: Douglas Hanes (McGill) Delacey Tedesco (Victoria), Aporetic Urbanization: Foucault and Derrida on Kelowna‘s Impossible Progress from K-Town to Sustainable City Jakeet Singh (Toronto), Toward Ethical-Political Feminisms: Addressing the Impasse Between Structural and Ethical Politics Devrim Sezer (Izmir), Varieties of Cosmopolitanism and Politics of Hospitality Elliot Buckland (York), Nature and Subjectivity in Marcuse, Horkheimer and Adorno Discussant/Commentateur: Douglas Hanes (McGill) G10(d): William James and Political Theory Chair/Président: David Rondel (Trent) Loren Goldman (Chicago), James and the Fascists: Sorel‘s Encounter with Pragmatism Eric MacGilvray (Ohio State), Liberalism as Radical Empiricism Alex Livingston (Toronto), James's Willful Liberalism Between Heroism and Habit Jonathan McKenzie (Northern Kentucky), Is Radical Empiricism Democratic? Santayana, James, and the Agnosticism of Experience Discussant/Commentateur: Melvin Rogers (Virginia), David Rondel (Trent) G4(d): Methods and Approaches in Political Theory Chair/Président: Melissa Williams (Toronto) Michael Frazer (Harvard), Three Methods of Political Theory: Historicism, Ahistoricism and Transhistoricism" Victor Muniz-Fraticelli (McGill), The Distinctiveness of Pluralist Arguments Graham Dodds (Concordia), From an Act of God to the Hand of Man: The Growing Realm of the Political Miriam Ronzoni (European University Institute) and Laura Valentini (Oxford), Taking Moral Intuitions Seriously, but Not Dogmatically Discussant/Commentateur: Melissa Williams (Toronto) WEDNESDAY JUNE 2/MERCREDI 2 JUIN 9 am - 10:30 am / 9h00 - 10h30 G6(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Non-state Actors and Non-ideal Circumstances Chair/Présidente: Lisa Fuller (SUNY- Albany) Jennifer Rubenstein (Virginia), Responding to Humanitarian Harms Emma Saunders-Hastings (Harvard), Valuing Philanthropy: The Charity Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism David Jason Karp (University College London), Human Rights Responsibility and the Capacities of State and Non-State Actors Nicolas Tavaglione (Geneva), Non-ideal Theory and Humanitarian Healthcare Discussant/Commentatrice: Lisa Fuller (SUNY Albany) G6(b): Roundtable: George Grant's Legacy Chair/Présidente: Leah Bradshaw (Brock) Participants: Edward Andrew (Toronto) Donald Forbes (Toronto) Gad Horowitz (Toronto) William Mathie (Brock) Scott Staring (Harvard) David Tabachnik (Nipissing) G6(c): Nobility, Wisdom and Sacrifice in Ancient Political Thought Chair/Président: Ryan Balot (Toronto) Andrew Gross (Toronto), Homer and Plato on the Role of Nobility in Politics Nina Valiquette Moreau (McGill), Method, Madness, Magic: Plato's Phaedran Dialectics in Politics and Understanding Marlene Sokolon (Concordia), Euripides‘ Alkestis: A Stand-In for Reciprocal Justice Sophie Bourgault (Ottawa), Plato, Gadamer and Foucault Discussants/Commentateurs: Ryan Balot (Toronto) / Christina Tarnopolsky (McGill) G6(d): Liberalism, Justice, and Rights Chair/Président: Ryan Pevnick (New York University) Alan Patten (Princeton), Rethinking Liberal Neutrality Andrew Lister (Queen's), Justice and Reciprocity Laura Valentini (Princeton), Justice, Political Justice, and Democracy Loren King (WLU), Rawlsian Self-Respect: A Socratic Reconstruction Discussant/Commentateur: Ryan Pevnick (New York University) WEDNESDAY JUNE 2/MERCREDI 2 JUIN 10:45 am - 12:15 pm / 10h45 - 12h15 G7(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Formal and Methodological Questions in Non-ideal Theory Chair/Président: Jack Knight (Duke) Paul Gowder (Stanford), Para-Ideal Theory and the Strategic Justification of Democracy David Wiens (Michigan - Ann Arbor), Testing Design Hypotheses: Using Formal Models to Test Institutional Design Proposals Holly Lawford-Smith (Australian National), Preventing Deterioration in International Cooperation for Global Justice Barbara Buckinx (Brown), Incrementalism in Global Institutional Design Discussant/Commentateur: Jack Knight (Duke) G7(b): Aristotle Chair/Présidente: Sophie Bourgault (Ottawa) Michael DeMoor (King's University College), Aristotle and Hegel on Private Property and the Common Good Douglas Jarvis (Carleton), The Family as the Embryonic Foundation of Political Rule in Western Philosophy: A Comparative Analysis of Aristotle‘s Politics and Hegel‘s Philosophy of Right William Roberts (McGill), Aristotle‘s Communism: The Political Animal in Italy Ann Marie Ward (Regina), Moral Strength and Moral Weakness in Aristotle Discussant/Commentatrice: Sophie Bourgault (Ottawa) G7(c): Secularity and Secularism Chair/Président: Edward Andrew (Toronto) Lindsay Mahon (Toronto), The Prophet of Secularity: Machiavelli and the Bounds of Religion within Politics Doug Cassatella (Toronto), Democracy and the Secular: Moving Beyond the Liberal Model Josee Bolduc (Carleton) and Marc Hanvelt (Carleton), Articulating the Secular: The Transcendent in Charles Taylor‘s Pluralism Paul May (UQAM), La laïcité selon Charles Taylor : une perspective critique Discussant/Commentateur: Edward Andrew (Toronto) G7(d): Eastern Europe and the Political Theory of Dissent Chair/Présidente: Mihaela Mihai (Montréal) Joshua Cherniss (Harvard), Neither Angel nor Maggot: Adam Michnik on the Political Ethics of Resistance and Compromise Jennie Ikuta (Brown), Towards an Existential Revolution: Considering Havel's Political Thought Anastasiya Salnykova (UBC), How Democratic was the Orange Revolution? Reassessment of Ukraine‘s Democratic Breakthrough of 2004 from the Deliberative Democratic Perspective Discussant/Commentatrice: Mihaela Mihai (Montréal) THURSDAY JUNE 3/JEUDI 3 JUIN 9 am - 10:30 am / 9h00 - 10h30 G10(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Global institutions Chair/Présidente: Christine Straehle (Ottawa) Simon Cotton (Cornell), Between Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Priority: A Case for the Significance of the International Trade Regime Mark Purdon (Toronto), Is the Carbon Market Failing? Non-ideal Institutions and Moral Limit in the International Climate Change Regime Aaron Maltais (Uppsala), Global Warming and International Cooperation Now: Time, Pressure, and Theories of Global Justice Peter Dietsch (Montréal) and Thomas Rixen (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Promoting Justice in International Tax Governance Discussant/Commentatrice: Christine Straehle (Montréal) G4(c): 20th Century Political Thinkers Chair/Président: Lucas Swaine (Dartmouth College) James Mellon (Independent Researcher), Bradleyan Idealism and the Political Theory of Michael Oakeshott Daniel Drugge (UBC), Isaiah Berlin and the Tragic Dimension of Politics Merom Kalie (Toronto), The Problem of Ethical Boundaries in the Thought of Martin Buber Discussant/Commentateur: Lucas Swaine (Dartmouth College) G10(b): Roundtable: Author Meets Critics: Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy Chair/Présidente: Emily Nacol (Vanderbilt) Participants: Fonna Forman-Barzilai (California - San Diego) Emily Nacol (Vanderbilt) Catherine Lu (McGill) Michael Frazer (Harvard) G10(c): Islamic Political Thought Chair/Président: Michael Nafi (Paris VII) Jeffrey Sachs (McGill), Alexis de Tocqueville and Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi on the Virtues of Colonialism: Responses to Empire in 19th Century French and Egyptian Thought Mojtaba Mahdavi (Alberta), Post-Islamism in Iran: Neo-Shariati‘s Post-liberal Discourse and Soroush‘s Liberal Islam Matt Gordner (Alberta), Islamism and Secularism in Muslim Democratic Theory Muhammad Velji (South Florida), Fashionable Religiosity: Consumer Culture, Secularization and Changes in Religious Practice Discussant/Commentateur: Michael Nafi (Paris VII) THURSDAY JUNE 3/JEUDI 3 JUIN 10:45 am - 12:15 pm / 10h45 - 12h15 G11(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle: Human Nature and Real-World Circumstances: What Constraints Should be Incorporated into Political Theory? Chair/Présidente: Zofia Stemplowka (Reading) David Estlund (Brown), Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy Robert Ballingall (Toronto), The Educative Function of Political Theory and the Beleaguered Role of Human Nature Justin Weinberg (South Carolina), A Little Reality Is a Dangerous Thing Michael Kulicki (Alberta), Transcendental and Comparative Theories of Justice: A Critique of Sen Discussant/Commentatrice: Zofia Stemplowka (Reading) G11(b): Liberalism Criticized and Defended Chair/Président: Andrew Lister (Queen‘s) Chad Flanders (Saint Louis), Public Reason as Ideal Lynda Lange (Toronto - Scarborough), Strange Political Philosophy in a New Key: Problematizing the Absence of Justice in the Approach of James Tully Jens Frederikson (Vanderbilt), Chantal Mouffe's Agonistic Pluralism. Radical Democracy and the Struggle for Normative Grounds Greg Whitfield (Queen‘), The Priority of Liberty: Political not Kantian Discussant/Commentateur: Andrew Lister (Queen‘s) G11(c): Romans, Neo-Romans, and Machiavelli Chair/Président: Ed King (Concordia) Lindsay Knight (Chicago), Away from Utopias: Cicero‘s Fellowship of Men and the Centrality of the Middle Duties in Good Government Geoff Kennedy (Ulster), Free-men, Free Labour and neo-Roman Conceptions of Liberty in Early Modern England Mauricio Suchowlansky (Toronto), Spectacular Tumulto: Michele di Lando in Machiavelli‘s Florentine Histories Discussant/Commentateur: Ed King (Concordia) G11(d): Injustice, Intervention, and their Aftermath Chair/Président: Timothy Waligore (Queen‘s) Nicholas Troester (Duke), Customary International Law and the Claims of Justice Magdalena Zolkos-Kavalski (Western Sydney), The Subject of Political Apology and the Freudian 'Undoing' Mihaela Mihai (Montréal), Unsettling Accounts: State Apologies as Exemplary Political Judgments Catherine Lu (McGill), Realizing Human Rights: Problems of Nonideal Theory Discussant/Commentateur: Timothy Waligore (Queen‘s) THURSDAY JUNE 3/JEUDI 3 JUIN 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm / 13h45 - 15h30 G12(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle Chair/Président: Andrew Sabl (UCLA) Loren King (WLU), Is all Theory (Non)ideal? Burke Hendrix (Franklin & Marshall), Where Should Non-ideal Theory Expect Moral Failure? Jack Knight (Duke), Can Institutional Analysis Really Support Non-Ideal Normative Theory? James Johnson (Rochester), Pragmatism & Political Economy: ―Institutional Imagination‖ from Dewey to Unger Discussant/Commentateur: Andrew Sabl (UCLA) G12(b): The Epicurean-Stoic Debate in Early Modern Political Thought Chair/Président: Rob Sparling (Ottawa) Ken Sheppard (Johns Hopkins), Antidotes to Atheism in Late Seventeenth-century England Neven Leddy (Ottawa), Epicurean Novelists and Philosophrs in Eighteenth-century France and the Scottish Enlightenment James Moore (Concordia), A Dialogue with Mr. Hume: An Interpretaion of An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) and Other Writings of Adam Ferguson Discussant/Commentateur: Rob Sparling (Ottawa) G12(c): Autonomy, Non-domination, Alienation Chair/Présidente: Barbara Buckinx (Brown) Mira Bachvarova (Queen's), Non-domination and Relational/moral Autonomy Inder Mahwer ( ), Can Women Be Autonomous? Kant's Gendered Metaphysics Peter Lindsay (Georgia State), What is (Really) the Problem with Alienation? Discussant/Commentatrice: Barbara Buckinx (Brown) G12(d): The Uses and Limits of Ideals in Political Judgment Chair/Présidente: Mara Marin (Chicago) Lucas Swaine (Dartmouth College), The Moral Statesperson: A Call for Character Charles Blattberg (Montréal), Taking Politics Seriously - But Not Too Seriously Benjamin McKean (Princeton), The Duty of Orientation: Disposing Ourselves to Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory Colin Farrelly (Queen's), Scientia and Justice Discussant/Commentatrice: Mara Marin (Chicago) THURSDAY JUNE 3/JEUDI 3 JUIN 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm / 15h45 - 17h15 G13(a): Workshop/Atelier: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory/ Théorie du non-idéal et théorie institutionnelle : Roundtable: Non-ideal and Institutional Theory Chair/Président: Jennifer Rubenstein (Virginia) Participants: David Miller (Nuffield College) David Estlund (Brown) Jacob Levy (McGill) Colin Farrelly (Queen‘s) G13(b): Deliberative Democracy Chair/Président: Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth) Laura Montanaro (UBC), Reflexive Constituency Formation: Representation and the Democratic Constitution of the Demos Anna Drake (Queen's), Inclusion and Institutional Design in Deliberative Mini-publics Joseph Angolano (London School of Economics), Politics as a Craft: Developing Political Skills To Make Deliberation Work Discussant/Commentateur: Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth) G13(c): Racism and Imperialism: Counter-Histories Chair/Président: Neil Roberts (Williams College) John Munro (SFU), Unsettling Cold War Cartographies: Center and Periphery in Bandung, Paris, and Accra, 1955-1957 Robert Nichols (Alberta), Henri de Boulainvilliers and the Counter-History of Racism Glen Coulthard (UBC), Marxism, Modernity and Indigenous Studies Andreas Krebs (Ottawa), The Other and Immanence: A Deleuzian Response to Postcolonial Subject Formation Discussant/Commentateur: Neil Roberts (Williams College) G13(d): Democratic Bodies, Democratic Minds Chair/Présidente: Kathryn Trevenen (Ottawa) Tobold Rollo (Toronto), Democracy in the Flesh: Citizen Bodies in the Public Sphere Frank Vandervalk (SUNY), Micropolitics and the Dawn of Neuroselves Elaine Stavro (Trent), Artistic Practice and Concrete Freedom: Anticipating Affect and Radical Democracy Sebastien Viguier (Princeton), The Internal Division of the Modern Individual Discussant/Commentatrice: Kathryn Trevenen (Ottawa) |