The Departments of Political Science and History, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clark Memorial Kempf Fund, the Whitney & Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the European Studies Council, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and the Whitney Humanities Center present:
The 2015 Critical Theory Roundtable
Saturday, October 3, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
8:30am – Breakfast, WHC 208
9am-10:30am – Panel 5: Deprovincializing Critical Theory, WHC 208
- Karuna Mantena (Yale University), Chair; David Ingram (Loyola University Chicago), Discussant
- James Ingram (McMaster University), “Universalism after Postcolonialism: (De)provincializing Critical Theory”
- Fred Lee (University of Connecticut), “Racial Removal Contracts and the Nomos of the New World”
- Lillian Cicerchia (Fordham University), “Ideology, Discourse, and the Material Base in the Construction of Race”
10:30am – Break
10:45am-12:00pm – Panel 6: Critical Theories of Nature, WHC 208
- Henry Sussman (Yale University), Chair; Lenny Moss (University of Exeter), discussant
- Umur Basdas (Yale University), “Communicative Bodies, Subtle Matters: Fichte’s Alternative Paradigm of Recognition”
- Marcia Morgan (Muhlenberg College), “An Existential Ecofeminism and a Renewed Critical Theory of Nature”
- Jorge Valadez (Our Lady of the Lake University), “Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Planetary Ethics and Ecological Flourishing”
12:00pm – Break
1pm-2:30pm – Panel 7: Revolution, Insurgency, and Popular Sovereignty, WHC 208
- Erin Pineda (University of Chicago), chair; Yara Frateschi (Unicamp Brazil), discussant
- Leamon Bazil (St. Louis University), “The Will to Be vs. the Will to Power: Identity, Disclosure, and Justifiable Insurrection”
- Kevin Olson (UC Irvine), “The Insurgencies of Our Time: Critical Reflections on Political Normativity”
- Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova University), “Who is the Subject of Politics? Revolutionary Declarations and Discursive Fields of Struggle”
2:30pm – Coffee Break, WHC 208
3:00pm-5:00pm – Panel 8: Dignity, Rights, and Freedom: Normativity and Critical Theory, WHC 208
- Samantha Godwin (Yale Law School), chair; Blake Emerson (Yale University), discussant
- Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin), “Political Authority and Autonomy”
- Jeff Flynn (Fordham University), “Human Dignity and the Genealogy of Human Rights”
- Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University), “Why Dignity Matters for the Theory and Practice of Human Rights”
- Jessica Wielgus (Binghampton University), “Responsibility for Justice as Strict Liability”
7pm – Dinner for panelists (Istanbul Café, New Haven)