Politics & Poetics 2024 Conference – “What is political?”
Conference schedule below. To register, email editor@politicsandpoetics.co.uk​
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8 August
Opening Remarks
Thursday, August 8th, 10:00 a.m.
The Canterbury Institute
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Connor Grubaugh (Duke)
Panel 1: “Rival Realisms”
Thursday, August 8th, 10:30 a.m.
Canterbury Institute
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Oliver Traldi (Tulsa), “Politicization and the Political”
Ming Kit Wong (Oxford), “Against Legitimacy: The Political Realism of Raymond Geuss”
Shasta Kaul (Notre Dame), “On Realism’s Realities”
Respondent: Mark Philp (Warwick)
Panel 2: “Individual Personality and the Limits of Politics”​
Thursday, August 8th, 1:00 p.m.
Canterbury Institute
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Matt Dinan (St. Thomas), “Kierkegaardian Individualism and the Political”
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Jan-Paul Sandmann (Harvard), “Political Apolitics”
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Respondents: Robert Wyllie (Ashland), Samuel Piccolo (Gustavus Adolphus)
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Keynote Address: “Carl Schmitt and Political History: State-Composition and the Collapse of the Second Empire (1934)”
Thursday, August 8th, 4:00 p.m.
DPIR Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building
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Samuel Zeitlin (UCL)
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9 August
Panel 3: “Ancient Views”
Friday, August 9th, 9:30 a.m.
Canterbury Institute
Hugh Liebert (West Point), “Plutarch on the Political, the Beautiful, and the Biographical”
Evelyn Behling (Notre Dame) “Anger’s Moderation of Politics toward the Common Advantage in Aristotle’s Politics and Rhetoric”
Respondent: José Andrés Porras (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Panel 4: “Politics as a Practice”
Friday, August 9th, 11:00 a.m.
Canterbury Institute
Dominic Burbidge (Oxford), “The Distinct Dilemma of Politics: Virtuous Coordination”
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Robert Wyllie (Ashland), “Anywhere Politics: Normative Democratic Theory After ‘the Political’”
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Respondent: Kelvin Knight (London Metropolitan)
Panel 5: “Early Modern Trajectories and Interpreters”
Friday, August 9th, 1:30 p.m.
Canterbury Institute
Mehmet Cifti (Oxford), “The Twilight of Politics: Insights from Josiah Tucker, An Eighteenth-Century Critic of Lockeanism”
Jeronimo Rilla (EHESS), “The Visibility of the State: From Failed Symbol to Allegory”
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Respondent: Connor Grubaugh (Duke)
Panel 6: “Politics and Technology"
Friday, August 9th, 3:00 p.m.
Canterbury Institute
Samuel Piccolo (Gustavus Adolphus), “Liberalism, Individual Inviolability, and the Transhumanist Threat”
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Jonathan Askonas (CUA), “A World of Amusement: Entertainment, Sacrifice, and the Possibility of Politics”
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Respondent: Dominic Burbidge (Oxford)