BRAGA COLLOQUIUM

IN THE HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

“Representation, the People, and Political Leadership”

University of Minho, 14-15 January 2016

PROGRAM

BRAGA COLLOQUIUM IN THE HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF MINHO, 14-15 JANUARY 2016

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TIME

14 JANUARY, THURSDAY

9:00 – 10:15

REGISTRATION

ROOM Auditorium (CP 2)

10:15 – 10:30

Opening Remarks

João Cardoso Rosas (University of Minho) Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho)

10:30 – 12:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS

1. Representation, the People, and Political Leadership: Learning from the Past (I) - Andrea Greppi (University Carlos III Madrid): “Theatrocracy: An Apology of Representation” - José Colen (University of Minho): “Laws and Citizenship in Plato’s Crito” - Ronald Weed (University of New Brunswick): “Aristotle on Honour Distribution and Crisis Leadership” - Charilaos Platanakis (Koç University): “Neo-Aristotelian Democracy” Chair: João Cardoso Rosas (University of Minho)

2. Representation, the People, and Political Leadership: Learning from the Past (II) - Signy Gutnick Allen (Queen Mary, University of London): “Representation and Punishment in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes” - Didier Mineur (Institut d'études politiques de Rennes): “Shedding a New Light on the So-Called ‘Crisis of Representation’: The Nominalist Premises of the Invention of Representation” - André Abranches (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): “Isaac Abravanel’s Rejection of Political Philosophy” - Sarita Zaffini (University of Chicago): “What is Real Unity? On Theological Representation in Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Karl Barth” Chair: David Alvárez (University of Minho)

Auditorium (CP 2) Room C2/105 (CP2)

12:30 –

LUNCH BREAK

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14:00

14:00 – 16:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS

3. Representation, the People, and Political Leadership: Learning from the Past (III) - Jaby Mathew (University of Toronto): “Representative Institutions without Representative Government” - Rob Goodman (Columbia University): “Edmund Burke and the Deliberative Sublime” - Samuel Hayat (CNRS/CERAPS, Paris): “From Revolution to Representation: The Institutionalization of Representative Claims in 1848” - Bernardo Ferro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): “Hegel on Recognition, Representation and Political Authority” Chair: Lev Marder (University of California, Irvine)

4. Representation, the People, and Political Leadership: Learning from the Past (IV) - Albert Dikovich (University of Vienna): “Approaches in Central-European Political Theory after 1918: Max Weber, Georg Lukács, Leonard Nelson” - Alessandro Mulieri (KU Leuven): “Political Theories of Representation in Carl Schmitt and Hasso Hofmann” - David Ragazzoni (Columbia University): “Democracy, Legal Representation, and the Neutralization of Partisanship. The Reluctant Modernism of Hans Kelsen” - John Pitseys (Université Catholique de Louvain): “The Statute of Political Representation and Political Visibility for Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt” Chair: Daniele Santoro (University of Minho)

Auditorium (CP 2) Room C2/105 (CP2)

16:00 – 16:30

COFFEE BREAK

16:30 – 18:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS

5. Representation: Theories, Cases, Challenges (I) - Lionel Cordier (SciencesPo Lyon, Université de Lyon): “Justifying Sortition: From Rousseau to Rancière” - Nemanja Todorovic (Central European University): “A Rousseauian Case for Popular Referenda”

6. Representation: Theories, Cases, Challenges (II) - Jan Biba (Charles University): “Democracy, Sight and the People beyond Plebiscitarianism” - Paula Diehl (Humboldt-University Berlin): “The Body and the two Logics of Political Symbolism: Institutional and Descriptive

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- Greg Yudin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow/New School for Social Research): “Public Opinion Polls as a Technology of Dual Representation” Chair: Alexandra Abranches (University of Minho)

Representation” - Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho): “Judgment, Ethos, and Rhetoric in Democratic Representation” Chair: Samuel Hayat (CNRS/CERAPS, Paris)

Auditorium (CP 2) Room C2/105 (CP2)

TIME

15 JANUARY, FRIDAY

9:00 -11:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS

7. Representation: Theories, Cases, Challenges (III) - Elena García Guitián (Autonomous University of Madrid): “The Representative System: Mapping Representation in Contemporary Democracies” - Lev Marder (University of California, Irvine): “How To Represent The People’s Ignorance?” - Daniel Blanch (Suffolk University, Madrid): “Citizens and Representation in Democracy: Tolerance, Secularism and Hyperpluralism” - Tarcísio Amorim (University College Dublin): “Representing Religion in the Public Sphere: A Moral Theory of Multicultural Engagement” Chair: José Colen (University of Minho)

8. Sovereignty and the People (I) - Maxime Lepoutre (University of Cambridge): “Defining the Demos: A Methodological Critique and Reconstruction” - Lucia Rubinelli (University of Cambridge): “On Sieyes’ Constituent Power, or on the Alternatives of Sovereignty” - Serdar Tekin (Ege University): “From Corsica to South Africa: Rousseau’s Lawgiver, the People, and the Possibility of Democratic Founding” - Chulki Hong (Seoul National University): “Hans Kelsen’s Critique of the Fiction of Representation” Chair: David Ragazzoni (Columbia University)

Auditorium (CP 2) Room C2/203 (CP2)

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

PARALLEL SESSIONS

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11:30 – 13:30

Auditorium (CP 2) Room C2/203 (CP2)

9. Political Leadership - Anders Berg-Sørensen (University of Copenhagen): “Political Cynicism and the Art of Political Judgment: The Political Leadership of Johann Friedrich Struensee” - Antonio Masala (IMT Advanced Studies Lucca): “Charismatic Leadership, Populism and Social Values: The Case Study of Thatcherism” - Francesca Antonini (University of Pavia): “The Caesar and the People: Antonio Gramsci’s Theory of Caesarism and the Analysis of the Populist Phenomenon” Chair: Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho)

10. Sovereignty and the People (II)

- Laura Montanaro (Essex University): “Representation and Self-Determination” - Lorenzo Rustighi (University of Padua): “Representation and Supplementation: An Aporetic Alternative” - Laura Adrián (University Complutense of Madrid): “Enlarged Self and Creativity: Governing Ourselves without Sovereignty” - Gundula Ludwig (University of Vienna/Humboldt-University Berlin): “Regimes of Truth: On Pathologies of Bodies and the Health of Democracy” Chair: Bernardo Ferro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

13:30 – 15:00

LUNCH BREAK

15:00 – 17:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS

11. Crisis, Direct Democracy, and Populism - Chiara Destri and Carlo Burelli (University of Milan): “In Defense of Neo-Tribunes: a Liberal Republican Reform” - Goffredo Adinolfi (University Institute of Lisbon CIES/IUL) and Mayra Goulart (Country Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/ISCTE): “Regeneration or Disfiguration? The Populist Challenge to Representative Democracy” - Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos and Joyce Karine de Sá Souza (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais): “Political Representation and Subjective Figures of the Crisis”

12. Forms of Democracy, Forms of State - James Gledhill (University of Amsterdam): “Kantian Republicanism and the Internal Relation Between Justice and Legitimacy” - Pierre-Etienne Vandamme (Université Catholique de Louvain): “Democracy’s Commitment to Impartiality and Contemporary Technocracy” - Valerio Fabbrizi (University of Rome Tor Vergata): “Political vs Legal Constitutionalism” - Jorge Loza (Independent Scholar): “Arbitrator´s Guffaw: Truth, Ethos and Comedy”

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Chair: Pedro Teixera (Freie Universität Berlin) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli (University of Cambridge)

Auditorium (CP 2) Room C2/203 (CP2)

17:00 – 17:15

COFFEE BREAK

17:15 – 18:45

PLENARY SESSION

Keynote Speech:

NADIA URBINATI (Columbia University): "Political Representation in Democratic Society"

Chair: Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho)

Auditorium (CP 2)