UC Berkeley Graduate Conference in the History of British Political
Thought-October 18-19, 2013
First Day: Friday, 18 October, 2013, Dwinelle 370
9am Introductory Remarks
9:05-10:40am
Panel 1: Professor Daniel Sargent, respondent
Moderator: Mark Fisher
(1) Pascale Siegrist (University of Constance, History), “A Common Vision of Geography?
Pëtr Kropotkin and the Royal Geographical Society, 1876-1921.”
(2) Zachary Manfredi (UC-Berkeley, Rhetoric), “Sidgwick’s Kant: Ethical Responsibility and
the British Idea of German Freedom.”
(3) Harry Dadswell (University of Cambridge, History), “From status to contract: the
jurisprudence of Henry Maine and its influence on Indian political thought.”
10:40-12:10
Panel 2: Professor Ethan Shagan, respondent
Moderator: Jane Raisch
(1) Drew Martin (Vanderbilt, Religion/Historical Studies), “The Context of the Covenants in
Hobbes’ Leviathan.”
(2) Benjamin Slingo (University of Cambridge, History), “Jacobean political thought and the
deconstruction of scholasticism: The case of Marc'antonio de Dominis.”
12:10-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30
Panel 3: Professor James Vernon, respondent
Moderator: Katie Harper
1. George Currie (University of London, History), “Thomas Carlyle on Democracy, Pluralism,
and Equality.”
2. Alex Dumont (UC-Berkeley, English), “Martineau, Arnold, and the Problem of
Particularity.”
3. Lise Butler (University of Oxford, History), “‘Michael Young and the Institute of
Community Studies: Family, Community and the Problems of the State, 1940-66.”
3:40 pm –4:50 pm
Panel 4: Dr. Arthur Yates, respondent
Moderator: Derin McLeod
(1) Gilad Sharvit (Hebrew University-Jerusalem, Philosophy/Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley,
Department of German), “Freud and Hobbes on the Limits of Freedom in the State of Nature.”
(2) Megan O’Connor (UC-Berkeley), “John Locke, Nominalism, and Language.”
4:50-6 pm
Panel 5: Professor Shannon Stimson, respondent
Moderator: Rosemarie Wagner
(1) Anurag Sinha (Yale University, Political Science) “Imperial Practice and Conceptual
Change: The Problem of Sovereignty in Late Eighteenth Century South Asia.”
(2) Colm Ó Siochrú (University of Oxford, History), “‘By what dark enchantment’? MidVictorian Catholic critiques of political economy.”
Second Day: Saturday, 19 October, Moses 223
9am Introductory Remarks
9:30-11:30am
Panel 1: Professor Joseph Lavery, respondent
Moderator: Wendy Xin
(1) Lucy Kellett (University of Oxford, English), “‘The excess, by which the balance is
destroyed’ (The Excursion): What can Malthus tell us about the concept of fragile balance in the
literature of William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge?”
(2) Jesse Cordes-Selbin (UC-Berkeley, English), “The Politics of Epigraphs: Forms of Reform
in the Victorian Novel.”
(3) Brent Russo (UC-Irvine, English), “William Hazlitt and Justice.”
11:30-12:45pm Lunch
1pm-3pm
Panel 2: Professor Victoria Kahn, respondent
Moderator: Rosemarie Wagner
(1) R.D. Perry (UC-Berkeley, English), “Lydgate’s Fall of Princes and the Realm’s Two
Bodies.”
(2) Heikki Haara (University of Helsinki/Fullbright Visiting Researcher 2013-2014, UCBerkeley), “Hobbes and Pufendorf on the Desire of Honour and Esteem.”
(3) Christopher Mead (UC-Berkeley, English), “‘As in his book alive’: Milton and the writings
of martyrdom.”
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30pm-5:30pm
Panel 3: Professor Shannon Stimson, respondent
Moderator: Samuel Zeitlin
(1) Emily Jones (University of Oxford, History), “Edmund Burke and the Liberals in
Nineteenth-Century Britain”
(2) Charles Clavey (Harvard University, History), “‘A new religion, and a new God’:
Justice & Commerce after Malthus.”
(3) Nakul Krishna (University of Oxford, Philosophy), “Mill’s Common-Sense Feminism.”