Wednesday 29th May
09.30 \; \;Registration
Session 1
10.00 \; \;Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel University\, London): Introduction
10.10 \; \;Justin Fisher (Head of School of Social Sciences\, Brunel University\, London): Welcome
10.15 \; \;Jean-Claude Zancarini (Ecole Normale Supé\;rieure de Lyon): HyperPrince. Premiers ré\;sultats d&rsquo\;un outil de comparaison entre l&rsquo\;é\;dition princeps du Prince et ses traductions franç\;aises du XVIe siè\;cle
11.00 \; \;Jacques Lezra (New York University): Discourse\, discord: The heart of Il Principe
11.45 \; \;Coffee Break
12.00 \; \;Yves Winter (McGill University): Violence and Realism in The Prince
12.45 \; \;Etienne Balibar (Kingston University\, London): Esser principe\, esser populare: The principle of antagonism in Machiavelli&rsquo\;s epistemology
Session 2
14.30 \; \;Jean-Louis Fournel (Université\; Paris VIII): La langue de la guerre selon Machiavel
15.15 \; \;Gabriele Pedullà\; (Università\; degli Studi di Roma Tre): Machiavelli the Tactician
16.00 \; \;Coffee Break 16.15 \; \;Jé\;ré\;mie Barthas (Queen Mary\, University of London): Machiavelli and public debt.
17.00 \; \;John M. Najemy (Cornell University): Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia: Another look at Chapter VII
17.45 \; \;Close
Thursday 30th May
Session 3
10.00 \; \;Thomas Berns (Université\; Libre de Bruxelles): L&rsquo\;efficacité\; prophé\;tique: la relation des armes et des lois
10.45 \; \;Fabio Frosini (Università\; degli Studi di Urbino &lsquo\;Carlo Bo&rsquo\;): Prophecy\, education and necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between politics and religion
11.30 \; \;Coffee Break
11.45 \; \;Warren Montag (Occidental College\, Los Angeles): &lsquo\;Uno mero esecutore&rsquo\;: Moses\, God and fortune in the The Prince
12.30 \; \;Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales\, Australia): Towards a republican conception of divine providence: A new reading of Chapter XXVI
Session 4
14.15 \; \;Alison Brown (University of London\, Royal Holloway): Following an untrodden path: transgression and modernism in Lucretius and Machiavelli
15.00 \; \;Peter Stacey (University of California\, Los Angeles): Machiavelli&rsquo\;s political ontology
15.45 \; \;Coffee Break
16.00 \; \;Vittorio Morfino (Università\; di Milano-Bicocca): The five theses of Machiavelli&rsquo\;s philosophy
16.45 \; \;Sebastiá\;n Torres (Universidad Nacional de Có\;rdoba): Time and politics: a materialist reading of Machiavelli
17.30 \; \;Close
Friday 31st May
Session 5
10.00 \; \;Giorgio Inglese (Università\; di Roma\, La Sapienza): Italia come spazio politico nel Principe e nei Discorsi.
10.45 \; \;John P. McCormick (The University of Chicago): Machiavelli on misawarded glory: Agathocles\, Scipio and &lsquo\;the writers&rsquo\;.
11.30 \; \;Coffee Break
11.45 \; \;Laurent Bove (Université\; de Picardie\, Amiens): Puissance et conservation. La leç\;on de Machiavel dans l&rsquo\;ontologie spinoziste.
12.30 \; \;Antonio Negri (Uninomade): Il tumulto costituente e la decisione del principe.
Session 6
14.15 \; \;Judith Revel (Université\; de Paris I\, Sorbonne): Trois usages de Machiavel : Merleau-Ponty\, Lefort\, Foucault.
15.00 \; \;Mohamed Moulfi (Université\; d&rsquo\;Oran): Althusser\, lecteur du Prince.
15.45 \; \;Coffee Break
16.00 \; \;Banu Bargu (The New School for Liberal Arts\, New York): Machiavelli after Althusser.
16.45 \; \;Mikko Lahtinen (Tampereen Yliopisto): Machiavelli was not a republicanist &ndash\; or a monarchist: on Louis Althusser&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;aleatory&rsquo\; interpretation of The Prince.
17.30 \; \;Close
The conference is supported by:
\nConference fee: £\;60 (£\;20 for one day)
Concessions available for students and the unwaged at £\;30 (£\;10 for one day)
For booking and non - academic queries please contact Nikki Elliott (Nikki.Elliott@brunel.ac.uk) or Jane Alexander (jane.alexander@brunel.ac.uk).
For academic queries please contact Filippo Del Lucchese (filippo.dellucchese@brunel.ac.uk).
A limited number of bursaries are available to graduate students who do not have support available to attend the conference. Applications must be received by 30 March 2013. Please send a cover letter and a recommendation letter by your personal tutor or academic mentor to support your application to Tania Rispoli (tanize84@yahoo.i).