Reclaiming Republicanism: Recovering the Tradition's Radical Heritage

Friday 26th June 2015

9:30 – 10:00      Registration

10:00 – 10:30    Opening remarks – Stuart White (Oxford) 

10:30 – 11:45    Ruth Kinna (Loughborough) and Alex Prichard (Exeter) ‘Revolutionary Violence in Anarchism and Republicanism’

11:45 – 13:00    Karma Nabulsi (Oxford) ‘Revolutionary Republicanism: Three Conceptions’

13:00 – 14:00    Lunch

14:00 – 15:15    Alan Coffee (KCL) ‘Freedom from a Slave’s Perspective’

15:15 – 16:30    Bruno Leipold (Oxford) ‘Republican Marxism: On the Politics of Socialism’

16:30 – 17:00    Tea/coffee break

17:00 – 18:15    John Filling (UCL) ‘On Wage Slavery’

19:30                 Conference dinner

Saturday 27th June

9:30 – 10:45      Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (UCL) ‘Kant can't handle Haiti’

10:45 – 12:00    Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS) ‘Conceptual Silences:  Republican Paradigms and Post-Colonial Thinking' 

12:00 – 12:15    Tea/coffee break

12:15 – 13:30    Alex Gourevitch (Brown) ‘Solidarity and Civic Virtue’ 

13:30 – 14:30    Lunch

14:30 – 15:45    Guy Aitchison (UCL) ‘Three Models of Republican Rights: Juridical, Parliamentary and Popular’

15:45 – 17:00    John McCormick (Chicago) ‘The Contemporary Republican Aversion to Populist Democracy’ 

17:00 – 17:15    Break

17:15 –18:30     Tea/coffee and concluding discussion – chaired by Stuart White (Oxford)

We aim to make this an inclusive conference. The seminar room and building are wheel-chair accessible. If you have any specific disability and/or dietary requirements please get in touch with us and we will do our best to accommodate these.

Lunch will be provided for all participants on both days of the conference. Particapants are welcome to attend the conference dinner on the Friday evening, though they will have to cover the cost of dinner themselves.If you would like to attend this dinner please select this option on the registration page, and we will include you in the restaurant reservation.