Time: 10 am-6 pm
\nAlmost any Political Theory aspires to address itself to a chosen political \;context\, to speak to politics\, and to be\, at least in this sense\, political. \;Recently thriving debates about &ldquo\;realism&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;(non-) ideal theory&rdquo\; in \;Political Theory have taken up this long-standing issue and at least
implicitly focus on the following question: how are different strands of \;contemporary Political Theory related to politics?
The answers that these debates have advanced are often offered in terms of a \;dichotomy between &ldquo\;idealism&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;realism&rdquo\; and of rephrasing the question as \;a problem of application of Political Theory. Is this all there is to say \;about the relationship? This question is all the more pressing\, as thinking \;about the relationship between Political Theory and its political context is \;directly connected to another question that looms large in current debates: \;in which senses is Political Theory political?
This conference intends to further scrutinize this complex set of questions \;and the answers that current debates have so far offered.
In order to register and for any queries regarding this event please email \;Janosch Prinz \;at \;
Please find a detailed programme below:
From 9.30 am: Registration
10.00 &ndash\; 11.30 Panel 1: Theoretical perspectives on the interface between \;political theory and politics
Chair: Dr. Inanna Hamati-Ataya\, Sheffield
Joshua Forstenzer\, Sheffield: Deweyan Experimentalism as Method in Political \;Philosophy
Dom O&rsquo\;Mahony\, Cambridge: Morality\, Ethics &\; Politics
\nKarsten Schubert\, Leipzig/Bonn: Overcoming Post-Structuralism&rsquo\;s Negative \;Idealism. Towards A Realist and Critical Theory of Good Institutions
11.30 &ndash\; 12.00 coffee break
12.00 &ndash\; 13.30 Keynote lecture by Prof. Michael Freeden\, Nottingham: Real and \;unreal realisms
Chair: Janosch Prinz\, Sheffield
13.30-14.30 sandwich lunch
14.30 &ndash\; 16.00 Panel 2: A realist challenge to liberal political theory?
Chair: Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith\, Sheffield
Carlo Argenton\, LSE: The Wars of Religion and the Historical Justification \;of the Liberal State
P. MacKenzie Bok\, Cambridge: Reading A Theory of Justice as a political \;intervention
\nLorna Finlayson\, PhD\, Cambridge: With radicals like these\, who needs \;conservatives? &lsquo\;Realism&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;idealism&rsquo\; in political philosophy
16.00 &ndash\; 16.30 coffee break
16.30 &ndash\; 18.00 Panel 3: What does/should political theory make of real politics?
Chair: Dr. Matt Sleat\, Sheffield
Adam Fusco\, York: Secession\, Realism\, and Political Agency: Towards a \;Critical Republican Account of Self-Determination
Canihac Hugo\, Science Po Bordeaux: When political theory turns political: \;the social uses of the concept of &lsquo\;constitutional patriotism&rsquo\;
\nStephen Hussey\, Oxford: What do we gain (and lose) by adopting &lsquo\;political&rsquo\; \;or &lsquo\;practice-based&rsquo\; conceptions of human rights?
\nLunch and light refreshments will be provided.
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