Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: James Tully’s Public Philosophy

Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: James Tully’s Public Philosophy

Organized by the Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales
Université du Québec à Montréal
Salon Orange du Centre Pierre-Péladeau
300 boulevard de Maisonneuve Est
Montréal

http://www.creqc.uqam.ca/spip.php?article580

24 AVRIL
3:00 Mot de bienvenue

Session 1 (3:15 – 6:00): Political Theory as a Critical Activity

3:15 Cressida Heyes (University of Alberta), Feminist philosophy as a
critical activity

3:35 Michael Temelini (University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa), Tully’s
diaological approach to political science

3:55 – 4:25 Discussion
4:25 – 4:45 Pause café

4:45 Jocelyn Maclure (Université Laval) and Daniel Weinstock (McGill
University), Two conceptions of public philosophy

5:05 Duncan Ivison (University of Sydney), Liberty as a political value

5:25 – 5:55 Discussion
5:55 – 6:15 Pause café

Session 2 (6:15 – 7:45): Keynote Lecture

Charles Taylor (McGill University), Crises of democracy


25 AVRIL
8:45 – 9:15 Café

Session 3 (9:15 – 11:55): Civic Freedom and Democratic Struggles

9:15 Robin Celikates (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Civic freedom and
non-institutionalized political contestation

9:35 Dominique Leydet (UQAM), Democratic struggles “from below” and the
institutions of constitutional representative democracy

9:55 – 10:25 Discussion
10:25 – 10:45 Pause café

10:45 Antje Wiener (Universität Hamburg), Cultural Cosmopolitanism:
Contestedness and Contestation

11:05 Geneviève Nootens (UQAC), Popular sovereignty, political contention,
and the boundaries of democracy

11:25 – 11:55 Discussion
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch

Session 4 (1:15 – 3:00): Democracy and the Public Sphere

1:00 Simone Chambers (University of Toronto), Putting reason back into
reasonable

1:20 Jeremy Webber (University of Victoria), Negotiation and democratic
decision-making

1:40 Melissa Williams (University of Toronto), Glocalizing the public sphere

2:00 – 2:45 Discussion
3:00 – 3:15 Pause café

Session 5 (3:15 – 5:00): Indigenous Intellectual Culture, Legal Traditions,
and Self-Determination

3:15 Dale Turner (Dartmouth College), James Tully’s political thought and
contemporary Indigenous intellectual culture

3:35 Val Napoleon (University of Victoria), Rebuilding civility and
citizenry from Indigenous legal traditions

3:55 Mike Murphy (UNBC), Self-Determination: A basic human right and a basic
human need

4:15 – 5:00 Discussion
5:00 – 5:15 Pause café

Session 6 (5:15 – 6:45): Keynote Lecture

Taiaiake Alfred (University of Victoria), The failure of reconciliation


26 AVRIL
8:45 – 9:15 Café

Session 6 (9:15 – 11h00): Federalism and Multinational Democracies

9:15 Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh), Enlightening Federalism: the
Philosophy of James Tully

9:35 Helder de Schutter (KU Leuven), Reimagining supranational belonging

9:55 Alain-G Gagnon (UQAM), Competing conceptions of Quebec as a political
community

10:15 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Pause café

Session 7 (11:15 – 1:00): Thinking and Acting Differently

11:15 Jonathan Havercroft (University of Southampton), Excuses, politics,
and pluralism

11:35 Dimitri Karmis (Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa), Dialogue,
listening, and difference

11:55 David Owen (University of Southampton), The power of examplars

12:15 – 1:00 Discussion
1:00 – 2:30 Lunch

Session 8 (2:30 – 4:30): Conférence de clôture

James Tully (University of Victoria), On civic freedom