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2018 Conference Schedule

All events will be held in the Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 211

Papers can be downloaded here. To receive the password for paper access, please register below.

Friday May 11, 2018

9:45  Breakfast

10:00  Welcome remarks (Karuna Mantena)

10:15-12:30  Word
Chair: Bryan Garsten
Rob Goodman, “Say Everything: Frank Speech and the Characters of Style in Demosthenes”
Torrey Shanks, “Improperty: Repairing a Silence in the Language of Political Theory”
Yves Winter, “What is a Political Imaginary?”
Discussants: Elizabeth Wingrove, Giulia Oskian

12:30-1:45  Lunch

1:45-3:30 Plenary I
Chair: Jason Frank
Stefan Jonsson, “The Aesthetic Dimensions of Contemporary Protest”
Discussants: Erin Pineda, Bernard Harcourt

3:30-4:00  Coffee Break

4:00-4:15 Spitz Prize: Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos

4:15-5:45  Institutions
Chair: Seyla Benhabib
Robyn Marasco, “Rethinking Authority and the Family: A Feminist Perspective”
Sandipto Dasgupta, “Imagination, Promise, and Text: Three Modes of Constitutional Politics in India”
Discussant: Lisa Disch

Saturday May 12, 2018

10:00  Breakfast

10:15-12:30 Image
Chair: Karuna Mantena
Peter Meyers, “Word/Image and the Rhetorical Situation of Political Theory”
Aaron Tugendhaft, “Ibrahim’s Regime without Images”
Nicholas Xenos, “Patriotic Imaginaries”
Discussants: Joshua Dienstag

12:30-1:45  Lunch

1:45-3:30 Plenary II
Chair: Jill Frank
Lawrie Balfour, “Taking Responsibility, Winning Freedom: The Political Arts of Toni Morrison’s Fiction”
Discussants: Shatema Threadcraft, Melvin Rogers

3:30-4:00  Coffee break

4:00-5:30 Mediation
Chair: Adom Getachew
Davide Panagia, “Towards a Political Ontology of the Dispositif (or Foucault’s Modernism)”
Ashley Gorham, “Anonymous’s Glory”
Discussant: Andreas Kalyvas

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