2013 Political Thought Conference

St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Thursday January 3 to Saturday January 5 2013

Academic Convenors: David Owen, Southampton and Dan Butt, Bristol

Thursday
Registration: St Catherine's College JCR, from 3.30.  Publishers' exhibitions will be on display from 3.30, and throughout the conference.   

4.00 to 4.30 Tea and coffee

4.30 to 6.00  Lea Ypi LSE: On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant’s philosophy of history

6.00 Reception

7.00 to 8.30 Dinner

8.30 to 10.00  Patchen Markell, Chicago:  Arendt and Heidegger

Friday

8.00 to 9.00 Breakfast

9.15-10.45 Rob Jubb UCL: Playing Kant at the Court of King Arthur: Why Rawls and Williams are closer than you might think.

10.45 to 11.15 Coffee and tea

11.15 to 12.45  Duncan Bell, Cambridge: Before the Democratic Peace: Racial Utopianism and the Elimination of War

1.00 to 2.00 Lunch

2.00 to 3.30 Time for meetings and other events

3.30 to 4.00 Tea and coffee

4.00 to 4.30 APT and Conference AGM

4.30 to 6.00 Anne Phillips, LSE: Revisiting Humanism

6.00  Reception

7.00 to 8.30 Dinner

8.30 to 10.00 Alan Finlayson UEA: In Defence of Parliamentary Rhetoric

Saturday

8.00 to 9.00 Breakfast

9.00 to 10.30 Ruth Kinna, Loughborough: Nihilism Before Nietszche: imitation, art and life

10.30-11.00 Coffee and tea

11.00 to 12.30 Margaret Moore, Queens University: Global Justice and Territory.

  Conference Convenors: Gary Browning, Oxford Brookes and Elizabeth Frazer, Oxford.