The Political Thought Conference 2015

The Political Thought Conference 2015. St Catherine’s College, Oxford, Thursday January 8 to Saturday January 10 2015.

For preregistration please go to:  http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/political-thought-conference-tickets-4465416180

Academic convenors: Kim Hutchings, LSE, and Patrick Tomlin, University of Reading.

Programme:

Thursday

2.30-4 Leigh Jenco (LSE) “What is the Revival of Confucianism Really Reviving? Towards a “creative engagement” with traditions in the Global Age”

Tea

4.30-6 Benjamin Holland (Nottingham) “On the Threshold of Modern Liberty: reconstructing the early Jesuit free-will defence”

6.30 Reception: sponsored by Contemporary Political Theory

Dinner

8.30-10 APT Lecture sponsored by CRISPP: Joseph Carens (Toronto) “Some Questions about How to Do Political Theory”

Friday

Breakfast

9.15-10.45 Cecile Laborde (UCL) “Who Needs Freedom of Religion?”

Coffee

11.15-12.45  Winner of the Cambridge University Press Graduate Essay Prize:  Signy Gutnick Allen (QMUL, ) “‘Away then with all your niceties in law': English Debates on the Nature of Treason, 1641-1651″

Lunch

2 pm. Session for graduate students with Susan Hanshaw Arts and Humanities Research Council: funding for political theory research

Time for editorial meetings etc

3 pm  APT and Conference AGMs

including roundtable discussion with Susan Hanshaw AHRC.

Tea

5.00-6.30 pm Joseph Hoover (City) “The Special Ambiguity of Humanity”

6.30 Reception: sponsored by Cambridge University Press

Dinner

8.30-10 APT Lecture sponsored by Contemporary Political Theory: Onora O’Neill (Cambridge) “Speech Rights and Speech Wrongs”

Saturday

Breakfast

9.15-10.45 Tracy Strong (Southampton) “Christ, Antichrist and Christianity: on morality, religion, politics and love in Nietzsche”

Coffee

11-12.30 Ben Colburn (Glasgow) “Authenticity and Well-Being”

Conference ends