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Schedule

Keynote speakers: Laura Valentini (KCL), Karuna Mantena (Columbia)

The second annual Amsterdam Graduate Conference in Political Theory will take place on ​May 28–29, 2020 in an entirely virtual environment. Please see below for a detailed schedule of the six sessions and the two keynote lectures. 

For more details on the conference and its participants
—including practical information and a book of abstract—please download the conference booklet.
​Registration is required. In order to register, please send an email to amsterdamptc2020@gmail.com.

Day 1

(28 May 2020)
09:00–09:30 

09:30–11:00
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11:00-11:15 
 
11:15–12:45







12:45–13:45 

13:45–15:15








15:15–15:30  

15:30–17:00




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17:00
Virtual gathering

Keynote lecture
Laura Valentini (London)  ·  ​On public identity disempowerment
Chair  |  Akshath Jitendranath (Amsterdam)

​Coffee break

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Session 1  ·  Public reason
Maxmillian Afnan (London)  ·  Liberal global public reason: Too thick or too thin
Henrik Kugelberg (Oxford)  ·  Democratic deficits and how to fix them
Discussant  |  Enzo Rossi (Amsterdam)
Chair  |  Akshath Jitendranath (Amsterdam)

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Lunch break

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Session 2  ·  (Im)migration
Aristel Skrbic (Leuven)  ·  Reassessing the moral permissibility of rights differentiation for temporary workers 
Discussant  |  Tamar de Waal (Amsterdam)
Laura Santi Amantini (Genoa)  ·  Why are forced migrants special? The distinctive harms of displacement 
Discussant  |  Nanda Oudejans (Amsterdam)
Chair  |  Yara Al Salman (Utrecht)

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Coffee break   

​Session 3  ·  Republicanism
Davide Pala (Manchester)  ·  Toward an appropriate republican regime of human rights
Hannah McHugh (London)  ·  Rescuing the dominator in cases of systemic domination
Discussant  |  Dorothea Gädeke (Utrecht)
Chair  |  Stefano Merlo (Amsterdam)

​C
onference dinner

Day 2

(29 May 2020)
09:30–11:00








11:00–11:15 

11:15–12:45






12:45–13:45 

13:45–15:15







15:15–15:30  

15:30–17:00




17:00​
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Session 4  ·  Ideology and time
Adrian Kreutz (Amsterdam)  ·  Whence and whither genealogical ideology-critique? 
Joshua Folkerts (Rostock)  ·  Interpretations of social questions through time: Epistemological and normative implications for state welfare
Discussant  |  Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht)
Chair  |  Uğur Aytaç (Amsterdam)

Coffee break
 
Session 5  ·  Power and accountability
William Chan (Warwick)  ·  Meriting political power
Julia Jakobi (Hamburg)  ·  Control and accountability in lottocracy
Discussant  |  Gordon Arlen (Amsterdam)
Chair  |  Marina Uzunova (Amsterdam)

Lunch break

Session 6  ·  Surveillance and exploitation
Nikhil Venkatesh (London)  ·  Surveillance capitalism: A Marx-inspired account
Stanislas Richard (Budapest)  ·  Exploitation as price disequilibrium
Discussant  |  Nicholas Vrousalis (Rotterdam)
Chair  |  Sanne Groothuis (Amsterdam)

Coffee break   
 
Keynote lecture
Karuna Mantena (New York)  ·  Gandhi and the hazards of action
Chair  |  Marina Uzunova (Amsterdam)
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Drinks
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  • About
  • Schedule
  • Call for Abstracts
  • Past editions
    • First – 2019