Machiavelli’s The Prince Five Centuries of History, Conflict and Politics

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 Supérieure de Lyon): HyperPrince. Premiers résultats d’un outil de comparaison entre l’édition princeps du Prince et ses traductions françaises du XVIe siècle

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’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    Jérémie 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’efficacité prophétique: la relation des armes et des lois

10.45    Fabio Frosini (Università degli Studi di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’): Prophecy, education and necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between politics and religion

11.30    Coffee Break

11.45    Warren Montag (Occidental College, Los Angeles): ‘Uno mero esecutore’: 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’s political ontology

15.45    Coffee Break

16.00    Vittorio Morfino (Università di Milano-Bicocca): The five theses of Machiavelli’s philosophy

16.45    Sebastián Torres (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba): 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 ‘the writers’.

11.30    Coffee Break

11.45    Laurent Bove (Université de Picardie, Amiens): Puissance et conservation. La leçon de Machiavel dans l’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’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 – or a monarchist: on Louis Althusser’s ‘aleatory’ interpretation of The Prince.

17.30    Close

The conference is supported by:

Conference 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 ([email protected]) or Jane Alexander ([email protected]).
For academic queries please contact Filippo Del Lucchese ([email protected]).

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 ([email protected]).