Thursday, November 3rd
| 9:30 – 9:40 | Welcoming Remarks: Terry Maley, Calvin ZL Lincez, David Mutimer |
| 9:40 – 10:25 | Thinking Through the Political: Democracy and Modernity, Chair: Calvin ZL Lincez, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
No Halfway House: Tocqueville against Political Meritocracy, Zhichao Tong, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Wolin and Lefort on The Political, Modernity, and Democracy’s Empty Place, Lucy Cane, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University |
| Coffee Break – 5 minutes | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Dana Villa – Between Arendt and Gadamer: Re-Reading Politics and Vision, Chair: Philip Walsh, York University |
| Coffee Break – 5 minutes | |
| 11:20 – 12:05 | Wolin and the Ancient Greek Demos, Chair: A.T. Kingsmith, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Wolin’s Athens: Democracy and Social Revolution, Jeremiah Gaster, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University On ‘Fugitive Justice’, Caleb Basnett, Independent Scholar |
| 12:05 – 12:50 | Lunch – Political Science Lounge |
| 12:50 – 1:35 | John Wallach – Thucydides as a Political Theorist, Chair: James Ingram, McMaster University |
| Coffee Break – 5 minutes | |
| 1:40 – 3:00 | Roundtable, Chair: Terry Maley, York University Wolin’s understanding of the canon/historical texts and the Vocation of Political Theory: John Wallach, Uday Mehta, Dana Villa, and Ingrid Creppell |
| Coffee Break – 10 minutes | |
| 3:10 – 4:20 | The Vicissitudes of Radical Democratic Agency, Chair: Nicole Leach, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Social Amnesia in Canada’s TRC: Sheldon Wolin, Radical Indigenous Thought and the Politics of Reconciliation, Calvin ZL Lincez, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University Political Economy’s “Global” Fugitive, Alena Wolflink, Politics, University of California Santa Cruz Can natural disasters be revolutions? Sheldon Wolin’s political time and democracy, Tyler Schuenemann, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Friday, November 4th
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Uday Mehta – Wolin on Democracy and Constitutional Form, Chair: Karen Murray, York University |
| Coffee Break – 5 minutes | |
| 10:20 – 11:25 | Democracy, Identity, Oppression: The Political and the Far Right, Chair: Hailey Murphy, Graduate Program in Political Science, York UniversityThe (rebooted) Origins of Totalitarianism and Reducto ad Hitlerum, Andrew Jones, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University‘Taking Back Control’ – Brexit and the Neo-Liberal State, Iain Webb, Graduate Program in Political Science, York UniversityWolin, the Political, and the National Question (in the Balkans), Jasmin Mujanovic, Independent Scholar |
| Coffee Break – 10 minutes | |
| 11:35 – 12:20 | Ingrid Creppell – Arendt and Enmity, Chair: Leah Bradshaw, Brock University |
| Coffee Break – 5 minutes | |
| 12:25 – 1:30 | Totalitarianism – Inverted? Chair: Olena Lyubchenko, Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Understanding 21st Century Totalitarianism via the Political Philosophy of Sheldon Wolin, Kenneth Bracker, Department of Political Science, The University of North Carolina Greensboro Inverted Totalitarianism: The Urgency of a Concept, Igor Shoikhedbrod, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Towards a Totalitarian Typology: Arendt and Wolin on the Character of Non-Democratic States, Aaron Service, Graduate Studies in Political Science, Brock University |
| 1:30 | Closing Remarks: Terry Maley and Calvin ZL Lincez |
The conference is free and open to the York community and to the public,
but because space is limited
please reply to this e-mail and let us know you are coming:
wolinconference2016@gmail.com
