2017 Graduate Conference Program
Thursday 16 March, 2017
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, 5th Floor
Arrival and Welcome
12.00
Panel 1: Liberal Society
The Everyday Libertarian Foundation of Tax Avoidance (Nicolas Benoit-Guay, NYU)
Criticising nudging for reasons of paternalism misses the point (Rebecca Rühle, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg)
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Kant's other argument against self-ownership (Luke Davies, Oxford)
12.30
14.30
Break
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Panel 2: Boundaries & Membership
A Taxonomy of Arguments Proposing the Enfranchisement of Non-Citizen Residents (Gün Güley, Hamburg University)
On Naturalization: Citizenship Beyond Residence (Camille Pascal, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
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- 15 minute break at 16.00 -
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The Collective Right to Self-Determination as a Hohfeldian Liberty (Kelly Tuke, University of Bern)
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The messy world of practice dependence (Hwa Kim, University of Warwick)
14.45
17.45
Keynote: Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht)
“Limitarian Political Theory”
Conference Dinner*
20.00
Friday 17 March, 2017
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, 5th Floor
10.00
Keynote: Albena Azmanova (Kent)
"Neoliberal policy mechanics of immigrant integration"
11.30
Break
Panel 3: War & Right to Rule
Divine Right and Secular Constitutionalism in Jesuit-Royalist Debates, 1580-1620 (Nathaniel Mull, Columbia University)
A duty to kill (Nathan Wood, Universität Bayreuth)
11.45
13.10
Lunch
Panel 4: Politics in Crisis
"The Tiny Displacement": Judaic Roots of Political Subjectivity in Giorgio Agamben's Messianic Works (Piotr Sawczynski, Jagiellonian University Krakow)
Politics, Truth and the Post-Factual Age (Barbi, Guido - KU Leuven)
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- 15 minute break at 15.30 -
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The populist nurturing of crisis (Octavia Bryant, Australian Catholic University)
The scientific is political (Cristobal Bellolio, UCL – UAI)