2014 Conference

2.00 p.m. Registration

2.30 to 4.00.

Session 1: Iain McDaniel, University of Sussex:
Democracy and Imperialism: Views from Nineteenth-Century Germany.

4.00 to 4.30 Tea

4.30 to 6.00

Session 2: Sam Chambers, Johns Hopkins University:
Giving an account of the social formation.

7.00 to 8.30 Dinner

8.30 to 10.00

Session 3: Diana Coole, Birkbeck
From population control to behaviour modification: liberty, coercion and biopower in pursuit of sustainable well being.

8.00 to 9.00 Breakfast

8.30. Registration continues

9.15-10.45

Session 4: Justine Lacroix, Universite libre de Bruxelles:
Hannah Arendt, human rights, and French philosophy.

10.45 to 11.15 Coffee

11.15 to 12.45

Session 5: Maximilian Jaede, St Andrews:
Why laughing mattered for Hobbes: pity, pusillanimity, and the will to power. Maximilian is the winner of the Cambridge University Press Graduate Student’s Prize.

1.00 to 2.00 Lunch

2.15-3.30

a) Professional development for graduate students ‘Getting published’: Panel speakers to include: Caroline Wintersgill, Bloomsbury Press; Richard Bellamy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

b) Time and space for editorial board meetings etc.

3.30 to 3.45 Tea

3.45 to 4.45

APT and Conference AGM, including presentation by speaker from the AHRC.

4.45 to 6.15

Session 6: Aletta Norval, Essex University:
Making and unmaking of political worlds: imagination and embodiment in Krog and Wittgenstein.

6.15 Reception, sponsored by Cambridge University Press.

7.00 to 8.30 Dinner

8.30 to 10.00

Session 7: Avner De-Shalit, Hebrew University Jerusalem:
The ethics of academic boycott.

8.00 to 9.00 Breakfast

9.00 to 10.30

Session 8: Laura Valentini, London School of Economics:
Samaritan justice.

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00 to 12.30

Session 9: James Harris, St Andrews:
Hume’s science of politics.

12.30 Conference ends

Conferecnce Programme 2014

List of Attendants 2014