2019 Conference Schedule & Registration
CSPT 2019 Annual Conference
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall
205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Paper abstracts are linked in paper titles. Full papers are available to conference registrants here; please see registration details below.
Friday May 10, 2019
10:00 –12:00 Roundtable
Chair: Karuna Mantena (Yale)
Russ Muirhead (Dartmouth College)
Asli Ü. Bâli (UCLA)
Ken Roberts (Cornell)
A. James McAdams (Notre Dame)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-3:15 Populism
Chair: Carlo Accetti (CCNY)
Maria Paula Saffon (UNAM) and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia), “Populism and Party Democracy: Partisanship Without a Party System”
William Selinger (UCL), “Making Sense of Populism: Jean-Marie Le Pen and the French Antitotalitarian Moment"
Discussants: Jason Frank (Cornell), Giulia Oskian (Yale)
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 Spitz Prize Presentation: Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
4:00 – 6:00 Parties and Movements
Chair: Jill Frank (Cornell)
Thea N. Riofrancos (Providence), “Resource Radicalisms: The Conditions and Consequences of Popular Critique”
Jean L. Cohen (Columbia), “Rethinking the Party/Movement Relationship in the Context of Populist Challenges to Constitutional Democracy”
Discussants: Lisa Disch (Michigan), Lori Marso (Union)
Saturday May 11, 2019
10:00-12:00 Party and State
Chair: Alexander Livingston (Cornell)
Max Skjönsberg (St. Andrews), “The Eighteenth-Century Debate about Party from Montesquieu to Madison”
Alexander Kirshner (Duke), “It's the State, Not Parties: Why Legitimate Opposition is a Preeminent Constitutional Principle”
Discussants: Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU), Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-3:15 Comradeship
Chair: Demetra Kasimis (Chicago)
Jordan Jochim (Cornell), “The Virtues of Faction: Aristotle on the Politics of Comradeship”
Jodi Dean (Hobart & William Smith), “Four Theses on the Comrade”
Discussants: Bryan Garsten, (Yale) Alex Gourevitch (Brown)
3:15-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:45 Factions
Chair: Anurag Sinha (Harvard)
Harvey Mansfield (Harvard), “Party and Faction”
Michelle Clarke (Dartmouth), "The Questionable Virtues of the Medici"
Discussants: Alison McQueen (Stanford), Richard Bourke (Cambridge)
Registration
Registration is free and open to all, but is required to access conference papers. Conference attendees are encouraged to become members of CSPT: please find membership details here. If you plan to attend this year's conference, please register using the link below.
