Our Centre co-organises a 3rd Biennial Ideas in Politics Conference, to be held in Prague on November 3rd – 4th , 2017.
The conference aims to bring together political philosophers, political theorists, intellectual historians as well as other scholars interested in republicanism, citizenship or constitutionalism to discuss the role of republican ideas in the history of political thought, as well as the various strands of the current (neo-)republican political theory. Such discussion should help to elucidate the roots of the current crisis of democracy and explore the potential of republican political theory to tackle this crisis.
Practical information can be found on conference website HERE.
Full program:
Friday, November 3rd
8.30 – 9.00 AM Registraion
9.00 – 11.00 AM Panel Session 1
| Room 2.07 | Panel 1.1 | Historical Forms of Republicanism |
| Håvard Nilsen | Chair | |
| Tomáš Korda | Hegel‘s Critique of Republicanism | |
| Konstanty Kuzma | Learning from the Present? Understanding Hegel’s Vorrede to the Philosophy of Right | |
| Lukas Perutka | The Mexican Adventure of Maximilian I and Its Influence on Czech Republicanism | |
| Benjamin Slingo | Scholastic Republicanism: A Paradoxical Episode in the History of Political Thought | |
| Room 3.26 | Panel 1.2 | Republicanism in Central Europe |
| Jakub Jirsa | Chair | |
| Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska | The Republicanism of the Polish Solidarity Movement and the Challenges of Today | |
| Agata Czarnecka | The Republican Tradition and Its Influence on the Polish Soul | |
| Milán Pap | Revolution as Republican Moment: The Case of Hungary | |
| Jaroslava Pospíšilová | Silent Citizenship in V4 Countries | |
| Room 3.12 | Panel 1.3 | Republicanism and Power Inequality |
| Matthew Hoye | Chair | |
| Alan Coffee | A Radical Revolution in Thought: A Slave’s Perspective on Republican Freedom and Social Reconstruction | |
| Dorothea Gädeke | Against Interactional Domination | |
| Jan Géryk | Reconciling Human Rights and Utopian Projects: Republicanism as an Alternative? | |
| Iain McDaniel | Republicanism against Caesarism in Nineteenth Century Europe |
11.00 – 11.30 AM Coffee Break
11.30 – 1.30 PM Panel Session 2
| Room 2.07 | Panel 2.1 | Conceptual History |
| Nicolai von Eggers | Chair | |
| Kazutaka Inamura | A Hermeneutic Method for Developing Republican Political Theory | |
| Jan Květina | Republicanism as an Aristocratic Mythomoteur: Common Discourse of Polish Early-Modern Thinkers | |
| Banu Turnaoglu | A Conceptual History of Republicanism in Turkey | |
| Håvard Nilsen | Republican Monarchy: The Neo-Roman Concept of Liberty and the Norwegian Constitution of 1814 | |
| Room 3.26 | Panel 2.2 | Contemporary Republican Theory I |
| Alan Coffee | Chair | |
| Carolin Bohn | Arguing for Political Judgement as Key Capability of Republican Environmental Citizens | |
| Alex Bryan | Citizenship, Equality, and Economic Crisis | |
| Oscar Larsson | Analyzing Policy in Network Governance through the Lens of Neo-Republicanism and the Concept of Domination | |
| Charles Richardson | Reverse-engineering of Freedom in Republican Thought | |
| Room 3.12 | Panel 2.3 | US Republicanism |
| Jakub Jirsa | Chair | |
| Rudmer Bijlsma | Alienation in Commercial Society: The Republican Perspective of Rousseau and Ferguson | |
| Dean Caivano | Jefferson’s Revolution: The Discordant and Rebellious Democratic Experience of 1776 | |
| Adéla Rádková | The New Republicanism in The Federalist | |
| Matthew Slaboch | T.G. Masaryk, America, and the Founding of a Republic |
1.30 – 2.30 PM Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 PM Panel Session 3
| Room 2.07 | Panel 3.1 | Constitutional Theory |
| Alex Bryan | Chair | |
| Paul Blokker | Narratives of Constitutionalism, Popular Engagement, and the Transformation of Modern Constitutionalism | |
| Valerio Fabbrizi | Reasonable Disagreement and Moral Consensus in Richard Bellamy’s Political Constitutionalism | |
| Adam Fusco | Non-Arbitrary Power and the Democratic Constitution | |
| Room 3.26 | Panel 3.2 | Problems of Globalised World |
| Nicholas Vrousalis | Chair | |
| Matthew Hoye | Illegal Immigrants, Sanctuary Cities, and Republican Liberty | |
| Joshua Preiss | Republican Freedom in Globally Integrated Markets | |
| Johan Rochel | Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Republican Account of the EU Immigration Law | |
| Room 3.12 | Panel 3.3 | Republicanism: Ancient and Modern |
| Tomáš Halamka | Chair | |
| Michael Hawley | Cicero and the Origin of Liberty as a Political Ideal | |
| Lluis Perez-Lozano | Not a Tale of Two Cities: Why “Neo-Athenian” and “Neo-Roman” Are Misnomers for Republicanism | |
| Alena Wolflink | Aristotle, Community Valuation, and Necessity |
Transfer to the Faculty of Arts building
4.30 – 7.00 PM Plenary Session I (Faculty of Arts building, Room 140)
Philip Pettit: Neo-liberalism and Neo-republicanism
Richard Bellamy: Overcoming the Demoi-cratic Disconnect: A Republican Intergovernmental Proposal for Reconnecting Citizens to EU Governance
Transfer to the Anglo-American University building
7.30 PM Reception
Saturday, November 4th
9.30 – 11.30 AM Panel Session 4
| Room 2.07 | Panel 4.1 | Contemporary Republican Theory II |
| Charles Richardson | Chair | |
| Christopher Donohue & Rafał Lis | A Dialogue Between Republicanism and the ‘Republic of Science’ | |
| María Victoria Inostroza | The Democratic Forms of Global Domination | |
| Jean Fabien Spitz | Is Structural Domination a Coherent Concept? | |
| Themistoklis Tzimas | “A-topical” Polities, Demos- less, Neoliberal Statehood and the Quest for Citizenship: The EU Case | |
| Room 3.26 | Panel 4.2 | French Republicanism |
| Iain McDaniel | Chair | |
| Hana Fořtová | B. Constant and the Ideas of Republicanism | |
| Marit Pepplinkhuizen | Alexis de Tocqueville’s Republicanism | |
| Spyridon Tegos | Republican Civility beyond the Old Regime: The Cases of Sophie de Grouchy and Germaine de Staël | |
| Nicolai von Eggers | Radical Republicanism in the Early French Revolution, 1789-91 | |
| Room 3.12 | Panel 4.3 | Republican Concept(s) |
| Tomáš Halamka | Chair | |
| Ophelie Desmons | Could Republicanism Not Be Neutral? Rethinking the Debate between Liberal Neutralism and Republican Perfectionism | |
| Dries Deweer | Personalist Republicanism. Identification of an Old Branch | |
| Eric Fabri | What Should Property Rights Look Like in a Republic? Different Answers for Different Republicanisms | |
| Yevhen Kutsenko | How Different and Self Sufficient Is Modern Republicanism? |
11.30 – 1.00 PM Lunch
1.00 – 2.30 PM Panel Session 5
| Room 2.07 | Panel 5.1 | Hannah Arendt |
| Jakub Franěk | Chair | |
| Milan Hanyš | The Republicanism of Hannah Arendt: A Case of Civil Disobedience | |
| Brian Smith | Anarcho-Republicanism? Hannah Arendt and the Federated Council Republics | |
| Judith Zinsmaier | Hannah Arendt’s Implicit Criticism of the Liberal Concept of Opinion | |
| Room 3.26 | Panel 5.2 | Machiavelli and his Legacy |
| Jakub Jirsa | Chair | |
| Jan Bíba | Machiavelli Against the Venice Myth: The 16th Century Dialogue on the Nature of Political Representation | |
| Axel Fjeld | Still Republican – Femia and Skinner on Machiavelli | |
| Camila Vergara | On Plebeian Republican Thought | |
| Room 3.12 | Panel 5.3 | Republicanism, Work and the Economy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives |
| Joshua Preiss | Chair | |
| James Hickson | Republicanism, Free Labour, and Precarious Work | |
| Bruno Leipold | Chains and Invisible Threads: Marx on Republican Liberty and Domination | |
| Nicholas Vrousalis | Neorepublicanism and Wage Slavery | |
| Room 3.10 | Panel 5.4 | Women and Neo-Roman Republicanism in Intellectual History |
| Dorothea Gädeke | Chair | |
| Federica Falchi | From Europe to the United States: Frances Wright’s Republican Experience | |
| Serena Mocci | Republicanism and Feminism: A Plausible Alliance. The Case of Margaret Fuller | |
| Giorgio Scichilone | The Republican Roots of Liberty: A European Perspective |
2.30 – 3.00 PM Coffee Break
Transfer to the Faculty of Arts building
3.30 – 5.00 PM Plenary Session II (Faculty of Arts building, Room 140)
Christopher Kelly: Sovereign versus Government: Rousseau’s Republicanism