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
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Eli Lichtenstein (Northwestern ), Foucault’s Nominalist Analytics of the State
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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)
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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