2019 Graduate Conference Program
Thursday 14th March 2019
Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, LSE
Friday 15th March 2019
Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, LSE
Arrivals and welcome
1pm
Panel 1 - Challenging the foundations of liberal thought (chair: Max Afnan)
George Boss (Bristol), Against ‘basic human needs’
David DeMatteo (Reed College), The Philosophical Grounding of Liberalism
1.30pm
3pm
Coffee break
Panel 2 - Liberalism, power and the state (chair: Cain Shelley)
William Little (Carleton), Locke, Possessive Individualism, and Ideological Critique as Method
Eli Lichtenstein (Northwestern ), Foucault’s Nominalist Analytics of the State
Jiyan Qiao (Leiden), Another Origin of Totalitarianism
3.15pm
5.30pm
Break
Keynote 1 (chair: Dr Laura Valentini)
Dr Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford), Coercing Others to Do More Than Their Fair Share
6pm
7.30pm
Drinks and Dinner*
* The conference dinner is for presenters and the keynote speaker
9.30am
Arrivals
9.45am
Panel 3 – The state and its borders I: insiders (chair: Tom Bailey)
Shuk Ying Chan (Princeton), Restoring The Self: Collective Self-Determination And Social Equality
Sven Altenburger (Göttingen), Rethinking American and German Conscription
11.15am
Coffee break
11.30am
Panel 4 – The state and its borders II: outsiders (chair: Fergus Green)
Kim Henningsen (Hamburg), Legitimacy in International Migration Law: Towards and Arendtian Conception
Rebecca Buxton (Oxford ), Refugeehood and Citizenship
1pm
Lunch
2pm
Panel 5 – Responding to structural injustice (chair: Kaveh Pourvand)
Zsolt Kapelner (CEU), Structural injustice and the duties of the privileged
Alisha Sharma (Queen's, Canada), Walking with Lorde: Considerations on Relational Egalitarianism, Political Anger, and Racial Injustice
3.30pm
Coffee break
3.45pm
Panel 6 – Embracing asymmetry in political theory (chair: Astrid Hampe-Nathaniel)
Maria-Jose Pietrini-Sanchez (Sheffield), A case for the asymmetric (un)enforceability of surrogacy contracts
Andreas Bengtson (Aarhus), Differential Voting Weights and Relational Egalitarianism
Break
5.15pm
Keynote 2 (chair: Prof Lea Ypi)
Dr John Filling (Cambridge), Paper title: TBC