Conference Archive

09:00–10:00 – Registration

10:00–11:15 – Keynote 1 – Alyssa Battistoni

11:15–11:45 – Break (30 min)

11:45–13:15 – Parallel Panels (Session 1)

• Room A: First Book Manuscript Workshop:

Maximilian Fenner (Amsterdam), Origins of Social Ecology in the Early Thought of Murray Bookchin 

Discussants: Manon Westphal (Technical University of Munich); Caroline Ashcroft (Oxford); Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College); Antoine Sander (Cambridge)

• Room B: Is Civility Reactionary?

Carole Gayet-Viaud (CNRS), ‘Is Civility Reactionary?’

Bice Maiguashca (Exeter), ‘The Labour of Civility and the Politics of Dissent’

Suzanne Whitten (Queen’s Belfast), ‘Who Gets to be Uncivil?’

• Room C: Power and Domination

Medbh Hughes (Oxford), ‘Domination at Work: Labour and the Social Control of Nature in the Early Frankfurt School’s Political Thought’

Peter Kerenyi (McGill), ‘Do Markets have Power?’

• Room D: Liberty under Empires: Political Thought in 19th-20th Century Northeast Asia

Hamni Park (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘Individual Liberty in Yi Kwangsu’

Yuanxin Wang (Florida), ‘Surviving Imperialism(s): Social Darwinism as Anti-Imperialism in Modern Chinese Political Thought’

Jinxue Chen (Northwestern), ‘Imperial Citizenship in Modern China’

13:15–14:15 – Lunch

14:15–15:45 – Parallel Panels (Session 2)

• Room A: Autor Meets Critics:

Arthur Ghins (Bruxelles), The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy

Discussants: Stuart Jones (Manchester); Camila Vergara (Essex);
Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle)

• Room B: Radical Responses to Climate Breakdown

Jeffrey Liu (Oxford), ‘Climate Katechon: A Reconceptualisation of Carl Schmitt in Climate Politics’

Jamie Allinson (Edinburgh), ‘Metabolizing the State Debate’

Nanna L. Sæten (Cambridge), ‘The Promise of the Anthropocene’

• Room C: Political Philosophy and Social Research

Alice Baderin and Maxime Lepoutre (Reading), ‘Solar Geoengineering and Moral Hazard: A Case Study in Empirically-Engaged Political Philosophy’

Patrick Cockburn and Gideon Calder (Swansea), ‘The Description of Injustice: Can Empirical Descriptions Function as Critiques and Justifications?’

• Room D: Affect, Status, and Recognition in the Workplace

Willa Saadat (Edinburgh), ‘Fittingness and Recognition in Emotional Labour’

Thijs Keulen (Leeds), ‘Work, Resentment, and the Politics of Emotion’

15:45–16:15 – Break (30 min)

16:15–17:45 – Parallel Panels (Session 3)

• Room A: Author Meets Critics

Ben Colburn (Glasgow), Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Structural Injustice

Discussants: Elizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh); Emily McTernan (UCL); Chris Mills (Warwick)

• Room B: Visions of the People

Dario Castiglione (Exeter), ‘Majority as People? Majority Principle and Popular Sovereignty’

James Harris (St Andrews), ‘The People Incorporated and the People Unincorporated’

Camila Vergara (Essex), ‘Plebeians and the Nation: “The People” in Bakunin and Schmitt’

• Room C: Climate Change, Equality, and Democracy

Jamie Draper (Utrecht), ‘Green Industrial Policy Without Inequality’

Catarina Moiteiro das Neves (Utrecht), ‘Degrowth and Justice’

Alex McLaughlin (Exeter), ‘Climate Change and the Failures of Liberal Democracy’

• Room D: Social Structure and Social Norms

Andrew Schaap (Exeter), ‘Civility and the Distribution of the Sensible’

Kai Spiekermann (LSE), ‘Social Norms and Climate Action: The Problem of Imperial Normativity’

Wenyang Gao (Brown), ‘Justice as a Virtue and Ecological Citizenship’

18:00 – Walk to Dinner (Playfair Hall, Surgeons’ Quarter)

~19:45 – Keynote 2 – Ross Carroll

09:30–11:00 – Parallel Panels (Session 4)

• Room A: First Book Manuscript Workshop

Koshka Duff (Nottingham), The Criminal is Political: Popular Illegalities and Shameless Solidarities

Discussants: Paul Gorby (St Andrews); Chris Rossdale (Bristol); Nivi Manchanda(QMUL); Tony Baugh (Edinburgh)

• Room B: Toppling the Rule of the Few: Theories and Practices of Popular Power

Manon Westphal (Munich) and Emily Katzenstein (Munich), ‘The Problem of Oligarchy: Translating Economic Wealth into Political Power’

Amadeus Ulrich (Frankfurt),  ‘Rule of Rackets: On a Forgotten Anti-Oligarchic Model of Critical Theory’

Peter Giraudo (Boston), ‘Union Representation and Socialist Speech in Democracy: Lessons from the Independent Tradition of French Socialism’

• Room C: Legal Approaches to Climate and Environment

Joshua Folkerts (Rostock), ‘A lagoon as a fellow citizen? Rights of Nature as Citizenship: Representation and Participation of Ecosystems’

Santiago Truccone (Graz), ‘The Need for Punishment in Global Climate Justice’

Megan Blomfield (Sheffield), ‘Justice in climate litigation: a modest defence of joint and several liability’

• Room D: Movement, Spatiality, and Political Structures

Eilidh Beaton (Aberdeen), ‘Attention and Global Justice: The Case of Internal Displacement’

Alina Utrata (Oxford), ‘How To Exit a Corporation: Unsettling the Corporate Demos’

11:00–11:30 – Break (30 min)

11:30–12:45 – Keynote 3 – Rahul Rao

12:45–13:30 – Lunch (45 min)

13:30–14:15 – Annual General Meeting

14:15–15:45 – Parallel Panels (Session 5)

• Room A: Practises of Popular Government: Juries, Recall, and Sortition

Bruno Leipold (LSE), ‘Constituency Juries: Holding Elected Representatives Accountable through Sortition’

Pierre-Etienne Vandamme (Louvain), ‘Representation by Lot: A Case of Weak Legitimacy’

Yanina Welp (Geneva), ‘Recall Revisited: Democratic Pressure Valve or Political Boomerang?’

Udit Bhatia (KCL), Discussant

• Room B: Grounded Contestations: Rethinking Solidarity, Participation, and Protest in Political Theory

Jared Holley (Edinburgh), ‘Periodical Solidarity: toward a grounded genealogy’

Antje Wiener (Hamburg), ‘Challenged and Changing: Pathways to Participation in Global Politics’

Jonathan Havercroft (Glasgow), ‘Grounded Normative Theory and Protest: Challenging Philosophical Assumptions about Civil Disobedience and the Punishment Proviso’(with Susan Kang (CUNY), and Daniel Edler Duarte (Sao Paolo))

• Room C: Activist Strategies in the Face of Climate Crisis

Tobias Müller (Cambridge), ‘Rising up against extinction: Planetary political theory from below’

Katharina Hunfeld (St. Andrews), ‘Rewilding and Ecosocialist Strategy: a perspective from Scotland’

Max Rozenburg and Oliver Escobar (Newcastle), ‘Anti-capitalist deliberative democracy: the role of commoning and the commons’

• Room D: Legacies of Slavery

Samuel Harrison (Turin), ‘Oriental despotism, moral sentiments, and “republican racism” in eighteenth-century France’

Grace Garland (Edinburgh), ‘A Critique of Environmental Science in the “Plantationocene” vs “Anthropocene”’

15:45–16:15 – Break (30 min)

16:15–17:30 – Keynote 4 – Angie Pepper

18:00 – Reception at The Canopy (Edinburgh Futures Institute)

09:30–11:00 – Parallel Panels (Session 6)

• Room A: Constructive Nonviolence

Inder Marwah (McMaster), ‘Democratic Ramarajya? Two Concepts of Sovereignty in Gandhian Nonviolence’

Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL), ‘Feminist Pacifisms and the Meaning of Peace’

Alexander Livingston (Cornell), ‘We Give Our Bodies in Witness’

• Room B: Culture, History and Politics

Emily Nacol (Toronto), ‘Defoe on Disaster: Narrating the Catastrophic in 18th-Century Britain’

Leigh Jenco (LSE), ‘The Politics of Voice: Chinese and Scottish Folksong Collections in the Early Modern Period’

Anna Diem (Geneva), ‘Rudolf Broda’s Project for Global Progress – A Case of Internationalist Republicanism?’

Sophie Cardin (Oxford), ‘’Esther the Great Revolutionary’: Esther Frumkin’s Marxist Yiddishism and the History of Yiddish Political Thought’

• Room C: Legitimacy, Economy, and Democracy

Peter Hulme (Independent scholar) “Free gifts for everyone? Pro-market and pro-nature Property-Owning Democracy “

Tadhg Ó Laoghaire  (Durham), ‘Economic Development Is a Source of Political Legitimacy’

Aiste Pagirenaite (Edinbirgh), ‘Resisting Capitalism through the Capitalist State: Prefigurative Politics as a Strategy’

• Room D: Rights

Joshua Cherniss (Georgetown), ‘Another Liberalism of Rights’

Kerri Woods (Leeds) and Jesse Tomalty (Bergen), ‘Justifying Human Rights as the Rights of Humans’

Hatice Melisa Acar (Glasgow), ‘Between Utopia and Political Utility: Reclaiming the Meaning of Human Rights’

11:00–11:30 – Break (30 min)

11:30–12:45 – Keynote 5 – Johanna Thoma