11th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought
Friday, 18 September 2020
All times in GMT+1
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| 8:50-9:00 | Introduction
Peter Morgan (UCL) |
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening Remarks
Andrew Fitzmaurice (QMUL) |
| 9:15-10:45 | Panel 1: The Limits of the Political
Chair: Cathleen Mair (QMUL) Philipp Schönegger (St Andrews) The Lockean prerogative: on the limits of political power and natural law Luke Ilott (Cambridge) Michel Foucault on the limits of ‘the political’, 1978-1984 Apolline Taillandier (Paris) Posthuman futures, cyborg languages, and the remaking of postwar liberalism |
| 10:45-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Panel 2: Contested Boundaries
Chair: Alessandro De Arcangelis (UCL) Anna Nasser (Naples) Borderlands as a site of resistance. Reshaping borders and identity in Gloria Anzaldúa’s political thought Shuhuai Ren (KCL) What’s wrong with the European Federation? Jean-Jacques Rousseau on cosmopolitan institutions and political boundaries |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch Break |
| 13:15-14:45 | Panel 3: Boundaries of Belief
Chair: Adela Halo (QMUL) Elly Brown (Princeton) Re-creation and preservation: Augustine and Hobbes on pride and fallen politics Kai Gräf (Heidelberg) The limits to toleration: atheists in the political thought of the Enlightenment Edward Lucas (Oxford) Religion and politics in British socialism |
| 14:45-15:15 | Break |
| 15:15-16:15 | Panel 4: Negotiating Space
Chair: Jack Edmunds (KCL) Jeffrey Dymond (UCLA) The city and the state in Quattrocento humanist political thought Helen Ross (Chicago) Sacred Precincts: women’s sphere and the state of exception |
| 16:15-17:00 | Break |
| 17:00-19:00 | Keynote Lecture
Chair: Hannah Dawson (KCL) Katrina Forrester (Harvard) “Boundary Work: Socialist Feminism Revisited” |
