CfP: 2025 BIAPT conference - University of York (January 9th-11th)

9:30 Registration

 

11.45-13.00:  Keynote speaker: Nadia Urbinati (Columbia):  “Democratic theory in the face of the crisis of democracy”  Sponsored by Res Publica

 

13 to 14: Lunch

 

2:00 -3:30: Concurrent sessions

 

• Author Meets Critics:

Michael Freeden (Oxford) Concealed Silences; and Monica Vieira (York) Democracy and the Politics of Silence

Organisers: Moya Lloyd  (Essex) and Luke Lavender (QMUL)

Discussants: Alfred Moore (York) and Melanie Schroeter (Reading)

 

• Modern Political Thought

Mary Jo MacDonald (Jyväskylä)  “Mary Astell and Judith Drake on Conversation and Civility” 

Ross Carroll (DCU) “Inegalitarian Republics and Compensatory Justice: The Case of Burke”

Takuya Okada (Daito Bunka) “Locke’s Essay on toleration in the context of Restoration conformists”

 

• Rectification

Gauri Wagle (Royal Holloway)  “Bread and Dignity: Reparations and Land-Based Redistribution”

Samuel Burry (Oxford)  “At the origins of critical race theory: the politics of protest in the early work of Derrick Bell”

 

 

• People and Property: Citizenship, Possessive Individualism and Collective Ownership

Camila Vergara (Essex) “The People and the Struggle for the Commons”

Dirk Schuck (Erfurt) “Possessive Individualism and Consumption in the Early Industrial Age”

Sean Irving(QMUL) “Ownership and the Mixed Constitution”

 

15.30 to 16: Break

 

16:00-17:30 Concurrent sessions

 

• First book workshop:

Christina Easton (Warwick) A Liberal Defence of Values Education

Discussants: Tim Fowler (Bristol), Liam Shields (Manchester), Cain Shelley (Warwick)

 

• The limits of rationalism: historical perspectives from the natural law tradition.”

Jeffrey Dymond (Zurich) “Natural Law and History in Early Modern Jurisprudence”

Eero Arum (Berkeley) and Gio Maria Tessarolo (Berkeley) “The Demons of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism”

Nicolau Lutz (Cambridge) “The mercenary problem in the natural law tradition from Grotius to Bochat”

Signy Gutnick-Allen (Zurich)“‘A Study of the good of others’: Metaphors of Perception in Hutcheson’s Theory of Benevolence”

 

• Post-Colonialism 1

Stephanie Wanga (LSE) “Beyond the colony, beyond the state: an anarchist federalist alternative for Pan-Africanism”

Debjanee Ganguly (Kolkata) “Post-coloniality in Vivekananda – His thoughts on Western Education”

Leonardo Barros da Silva (Minho) “Self-determination and migration control from an African perspective”

 

• Democracy

Andrew Shaap (Exeter) “Democratic Politics and the Labour of Civility”

Suzane Bloks (LSE) & Andrei Poama (Leiden)  “Multiple Juries: An Epistemic Complementarity Account”

Peter Stone (Trinity college Dublin) “Sortition beyond Athens”

 

19:30 Early dinner at the Guildhall -doors will open from 18:30 for drinks

 

21:15:  After-dinner Keynote speaker 2:  Jacob Levy (McGill): “To promote an injustice which was no part of their intention” The CRISPP Lecture

 

 

 

 

 

9.30 to 10.45: Keynote 3: Sumi Madhok (LSE) “Rights Politics, Human Rights and Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice”  Sponsored by European Journal of Political Theory

 

10.45 to 11.15: Break

 

11.15 to 12.45: concurrent sessions

 

• Author Meets Critics:

Bruno Leipold (LSE) Citizen Marx

Discussants: Dorothea Gädeke (Utrecht), Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh), Camila Vergara (Essex)

 

• Hobbes

Tim Stuart-Buttle (York)  “The misfortunes of gratitude”

James Cullis (Oxford) “This Finite Earth: Early Modern Natural Law and the Limits of Nature” 

Bingshu Zhao  (Exeter) “The Family in Hobbes: Natural and Artificial”    

 

• Migration

Lukas Schmid (Goethe University Frankfurt) “Algorithmic Authority: The Perils of Computational Selection”

Dimitrios Efthymiou (UniSR & Edinburgh)  “The European Socioeconomic Dilemma: A Tripartite Approach to Domestic and Global Inequalities through Migration Policy”

Clara Sandelind (Manchester) “Realism, Refugees and Political Solidarity”

 

• Pacifist Political Thought

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough)  “Pacifist Rejoinders to the ‘Hitler Question’”

Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL) “Pacifism and a Practice of Peace with War”

Peter Cousins (Granada) “Continuum of Officiality’ and the Subversive, Pacifist Civilian Diplomacy of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation”

 

12.45 to 13.30: Lunch

 

13.30 to 14.15: Annual General meeting.

 

14.15- 15.45: Concurrent sessions

 

• Author Meets Critics :

Shuk Ying Chan (UCL): Post-Colonial Global Justice

Discussants: Miriam Ronzoni (Manchester), Alasia Nuti (York), Kimberly Hutchings (QMUL)

 

• Time

Botian Zheng (Cambridge) “Between History and Presentism- Carl Schmitt’s troubled historical method “

Monica Vieira (York) and Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) “The Temporality of Political Representation”

 

• Solidarity

Eilidh Beaton (Aberdeen) “The Dangers of “Sanctuary” “

Jared Holley (Edinburgh)“Grounding Solidarity: toward a critical genealogy”

Cat Wayland (Edinburgh) “Epistemic solidarity”

 

• Speech

Jonathan Seglow (Royal Holloway) “Speech, Shame and Misattention”

Suzanne Whitten (Queen’s University) “Feeling Silenced”

Ruth Kelly (York) “Aesthetic-affective speech and the public sphere: art, gossip and unruly politics in Bangladesh”

 

15.45  to 16.15: Break

 

16.15 to 17.45: concurrent sessions

 

• First book workshop:

Laura Santi Amantini Forced Displacement: A reparative approach

Discussants: Eilidh Beaton (Aberdeen), Rebecca Buxton (Bristol), Phillip Cole (UWE), James Souter (Leeds)

 

• Animals and Non-Violence:

Organizers: Josh Milburn (Loughborough) and Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough)

Sara Van Goozen (York) “A responsibility to protect biodiversity? On the prospects for an environmental responsibility to protect”

Josh Milburn (Loughborough)   “The ethics of killing (virtual) animals”

Hannah Battersby (Manchester) “Virtual violence to nonhumans and status injury”

Fred Matthews (Bristol)  “Radical environmentalist activism and liberal theory”

 

• Climate Change

Felix Westeren (LSE) “Anthropocentrism about value and interventionist climate policy” 

Grace Garland (Edinburgh) “Rationalism and the equivocations of science in the ‘Century of the Environment’”

Ashley Dodsworth (Bristol) “Republican Responses to Climate Mis-information”

 

• Liberalism

Johannes Kniess (Newcastle) “Shaping People’s Preferences: Liberal Neutrality, Means Paternalism, and Tobacco Control” 

Joshua Cherniss (Georgetown) “As Different as Two Liberals Can Be? Isaiah Berlin and Judith Shklar”

 

17.45  to 19.15: Keynote 4 Robin Douglass (KCL): “Judith Shklar on Justice and Injustice” Sponsored by Contemporary Political Theory

 

19.15 Drink reception generously sponsored by Contemporary Political Theory

 

9.30 to 10.45: Keynote 5 Onur Ulas Ince (SOAS): “Political Theory, Political Economy, and Empire: Rematerializing a Research Agenda.”  Sponsored by Imprint Academic

 

10.45 to 11.15: Break

 

11.15 to 12.45: Concurrent sessions

 

• Post-Colonialism 2

Erik Cardona Gomez (SOAS) “What’s Wrong with Settler Colonialism”

Vatsal Naresh (Harvard) “Majoritarian Domination in Anti/Postcolonial and Black Radical Democratic Theory” 

Daniel Hutton Ferris (Newcastle) “Comparative Democratic Theory: democracy and unelected Indigenous governments”  

 

• The Distribution of Power

Udit Bhatia (York) “Acting Democratically Under Clientelism: Organised Power under Non-Ideal Conditions”

Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford) “What power is this?”

Albena Azmanova (Kent) “Whose is ‘structural power’?”

 

• Socialist Feminism

Amelia Horgan (Essex) “Socialist Feminism Now”

Tatiana Llaguno (Pompeu Fabra)  “Nora’s Trap: A Socialist Feminist Response to the Question of Dependence”

Cain Shelley (Warwick) “Socialism With Intersectional Characteristics“

Mirjam Müller (Humboldt) “(Un)free Care. The Care Crisis and the Socialisation of Care” 

 

• Sentiments and Judgments

Jason S. Canon (Cambridge) “Must We Abandon Empathy?”

Shal Marriott (McGill) “Imagining Ourselves in the Eyes of Others: The Political Function of Narrative Forms”

Daniel Lukac (McGill) “Believing With Others: Loyalty, Associative Life, and the Virtues of Epistemic Irresponsibility”

 

End of conference