Department of Politics and
International Studies
Tenth Annual Graduate Conference In Political Theory
Saturday 16 February 2008
Social Studies Building: Rooms S0. 18, S0.19, S0.20
Programme
9.40 – 10.00
Welcome Coffee
10.00 – 11.20
Plenary Session. Room: SO.20. Dr. Mark Philp
(Oxford) ‘TBC’
Chair: Matthew Clayton
11.25 – 12.40
Graduate Session One: Panels A, B, C
12.40 – 1.40
Lunch
1.40 – 2:55
Graduate Session Two: Panels D, E, F
3:00 – 4:15
Graduate Session Three: Panels G, H, I
4.15 – 4:40
Tea
4:40 – 6.00
Plenary Session. Room: SO.20. Prof Hillel
Steiner (Manchester) ‘Exploitation Takes Time’
Chair: Andrew Reeve
6.00 –
Wine Reception
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GRADUATE PANELS
Please note that panel times will be strictly observed. Presenters are
requested to keep their presentations to a maximum of 20 minutes.
Session One: 11.20-12.30
A
Rm: SO.20
Chair Andrew Reeve
‘Republicanism and commercial republic’,
Jessica Kimpell, University of Oxford
‘The Rousseauian Interpretation of Justice as Fairness’
Juha Rudanko, University of York
B
Rm: SO.19
Chair
Fabienne Peter
‘Transnational democracy and the ‘all affected’ principle
Johan Karlsson, University of Gothenburg
‘Land for states, individuals and groups’
Bas van der Vossen, University of Oxford
C
Rm: SO.169
Chair
Ed Page
‘The liberal communitarian debate: a way out of the impasse’
Lucy Arnold, University of Leicester
‘Are justice and fraternity (potentially) conflicting values?’
Nicholas Vrousalis, University of Oxford
Session Two: 1:10-2:20
D
Rm: SO.19
Chair
Andrew Williams
‘Levelling Down, individual welfare and the badness of inequality’
Gabriel Wollner, University of Oxford
‘A defence of sufficientarianism’
Clare Heyward, University of Birmingham
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E
Rm: SO.169
Chair Andrew Reeve
‘Recovering the ongoing conversation: Epistemological arguments for liberty
and democracy in Mill, Hobbhouse and Hobson’
Julia Skorupska, University of Oxford
‘Using lotteries to adjudicate between groups’
Ben Saunders, Unniversity of Oxford
F
Rm: SO.20
Chair
Ed Page
‘Truth, consequentialism and agency’
Rob Jubb, University of Oxford
‘Democractisation theory and human nature’
Doron Shultiner, University of Oxford
Session Three: 2.25-3.35
G
Rm: SO.20
Chair
Matthew Clayton
Fall and rise of desert in political philosophy
Göran Duus-ötterström, University of Gothenburg
‘School choice, school selection, and equal opportunity’
Nat Coleman, University of Oxford
H
Rm: SO.19
Chair Andrew Reeve
‘Basic ideas of the principle of fairness’
Dong-il Kim, University of Warwick
‘Pure process defended’
Jordan Dodd, Syracuse University
I
Rm: SO.169
Chair
Ed Page
‘Failing to resist surveillance: a discursive approach’
David Wills, Univesity of Nottingham
‘Theory from practice, theory in practice: conceptualising horizontal politics’
Eloise Harding, University of Nottingham
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Session Four: 3.50-5.00
J
Rm: SO.19
Chair
Fabienne Peter
‘The concept of freedom in Kant, Schiller and Arendt’
Szilagyi-Gal Mihaly, University of Debrecen
‘Reason, Recognition and Rouseauian Democracy’
Oran Moked, Columbia University
K
Rm: SO.20
Chair
Andrew Williams
‘Non-institutional egalitarian cosmopolitanism: a twofold critique’
Laura Valentini, University College London
‘Swings and roundabouts: responsibility and opportunity in the Global
Economy’
Carl Cullinane, University of Oxford
L
Rm: SO.169
Chair
Andres Moles
‘Public Justification, Publicity and Demoracy’
Dean Machin, University of Bristol
‘Democracy in Dworkin’s comprehensive liberalism’
Laurens van Apeldorn, University of Oxford
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Apeldorn, Laurens van
Oxford University
laurens.vanapeldorn@politics.ox.ac.uk
Arnold, Lucy
Leicester University
laa4@leicester.ac.uk
Clayton, Matthew
Warwick University
m.g.clayton@warwick.ac.uk
Coleman, Nat
Oxford University
natcoleman@gmail.com
Cullinane, Carl
Oxford University
Carl.cullinane@politics.ox.ac.uk
Cunliffe, John
Warwick University
j.cunliffe@warwick.ac.uk
Dodd, Jordan
Syracuse University
jdodd@syr.edu
Göran Duus-ötterström
Gothenburg University
Goran.duus-otterstrom@pol.gu.se
Harding, Eloise
Nottingham University
ldxemh@nottingham.ac.uk
Heyward, Clare
Birmingham University
JCH449@bham.ac.uk
Jones, Peter
Newcastle University
p.n.jones@newcastle.ac.uk
Jubb, Rob
Oxford University
robjubb@gmail.com
Judd, Mark
Cardiff University
juddmd@Cardiff.ac.uk
Karlsson, Johan
Gothenburg University
Johan.karlsson@pol.gu.se
Kim, Dong-il
Warwick University
Dong-il.kim@warwick.ac.uk
Kimpell, Jessica
Oxford University
Jessica.Kimpell@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Machin, Dean
Bristol University
pldjm@bristol.ac.uk
Milhaly, Szilagyi Gal
University of Debrecen
Szilagyigal@yahoo.com
Moles, Andres
Warwick University
a.moles@warwick.ac.uk
Page, Ed
Warwick University
e.a.page@warwick.ac.uk
Peter, Fabienne
Warwick University
f.peter@warwick.ac.uk
Reeve, Andrew
Warwick University
a.w.reeve@warwick.ac.uk
Rudanko, Juha
York University
Jmmr100@york.ac.uk
Saunders, Ben
Oxford University
b.m.saunders@gmail.com
Shultiner, Doron
Oxford University
Doron.Shultziner@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Skorupska, Julia
Oxford University
Julia.skorupska@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Stein, Sebastian
Warwick University
satohausen@googlemail.com
Valentini, Laura
University College London
l.valentini@ucl.ac.uk
Van der Vossen, Bas
Oxford University
Bas.vandervossen@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Vrousalis, Nicholas
Oxford University Nicholas.vrousalis@ladymargaret-hall.oxford.ac.uk
Walton, Andrew
Warwick University
Andrew.J.Walton@warwick.ac.uk
White, Stuart
Oxford University
stuart.white@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Williams, Andrew
Warwick University
andrew.williams@warwick.ac.uk
Wills, David
Nottingham University
ldxdaw2@nottingham.ac.uk
Wollner, Gabriel
Oxford University
Gabriel.wollner@politics.ac.uk
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