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CONFERENCE

Political Theory In/And/As Political Science

May 10-12

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Thursday

10:45-11 am
Opening remarks: Jacob Levy, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ
11 am- 12:45 pm
Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka, Queen's: Theories of Justice, the Strains of Commitment, and
Realistic Utopias
Suzanne Dovi, Arizona: Five Faces Of Misogyny: Understanding and Measuring Bad Behavior
David Wiens, UCSD: Ideal Theory as Conceptual Asymptotics
Chair/ discussant: Catherine Lu, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ
[Lunch]
2-3:45 pm
Jenna Bednar, Michigan: Federalism as a Mechanism of Collective Problem Solving
Michael Neblo, Ohio State: A Formal Model of Deliberation as the Game of Giving and Asking
for Reasons
Jack Knight, Duke and Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU: The Moral Limits of Bargaining
Chair/ discussant: Rob Reich, Stanford
[coffee]
4:15-6 pm
Samuel Bagg, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: Democratic Theory As Political Action
Menaka Philips, Tulane, and Jennifer Forestal, Stockton: "Democracy Dies in Darkness":
Anonymity, Accountability, and Information as a Public Good
Andrew Sabl, Yale/Toronto: The Strange Career of Aggregative Democracy
Chair/ discussant: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
6-6:15 pm
Reflections: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania, and President, American Political
Science Association
6:15 pm Reception outside Leacock 232
7:30 pm dinner
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Friday

9 am
Opening remarks: Jane Mansbridge, Harvard
9:15-11 am
Federica Carugati, Indiana: Democracy and Development Beyond Liberalism
David Stasavage, NYU: The Rise of Western Democracy: Why it Happened in Europe and Not
China or the Middle East
Josiah Ober, Stanford: Cooperation and the origins of western political thought
Chair/ discussant: Christa Scholtz, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ
[coffee]
11:15 am - 1:15 pm: Graduate student panel
Aberdeen Berry, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: Theorizing Adaptive Preferences
Alec Crisman, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: America First?: Examining "Trumpism" through American and European
Nationalisms
Teresa Monkova, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: ‘Great Men,’ ‘Untaught Slaves,’ and the Making and Writing of
History
Vertika: Seeking Agency in the Interstices of Power
Chair/ discussant: Jane Mansbridge, Harvard
[Lunch]
2:30-4:15 pm
Will Roberts, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: Ideologies of domination and democratic theory
Deva Woodly, New School: From Idea To Ideology
Laurel Weldon, Purdue: Active Solidarity: Strategies For Transnational Political Cooperation In
Contexts Of Difference, Domination And Distrust
Chair/ discussant: Kelly Gordon, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ
4:15-4:30 pm
Reflections: Melissa Schwartzberg, NYU
[break]
7 pm dinner
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Saturday

9-11 am
Sean Ingham, UCSD: Rule by Multiple Majorities: A New Theory of Popular Control
Mariah Zeisberg, Michigan: A New Political Jurisprudence
Daniel Weinstock, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: The Political Theory of Really Existing Democracies: The Case of
Electoral Reform
Arash Abizadeh, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ: Representation, Bicameralism, and Sortition
Chair/ discussant: Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ
[coffee]
11:15 am - 1 pm
Kevin Elliott, Columbia: The Uses and Abuses of Public Opinion in Political Theory
Alison McQueen, Stanford: Religion and Rhetoric in Hobbes's England
Barry Weingast, Stanford: TBA
Chair/ discussant: Edana Beauvais, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ
1 pm
Closing remarks: Josiah Ober, Stanford