Date/Time
Date(s) - 6 Dec 2013 until 7 Dec 2013
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
The Italian Academy
Category(ies) No Categories
Columbia University
Department of Political Science
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
Heyman Center for the Humanities
present
“LIBERTY AND CONFLICT: MACHIAVELLI ON POLITICS AND POWER”
An international conference
2013-14 annual meeting of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Free and open to the public
Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, 2013
For schedule and registration, please visit the conference website at:
http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
Organized by David Johnston and Nadia Urbinati, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
(south of 118th Street)
New York, NY 10027
The conference will focus on four themes:
Situating Machiavelli within the history of political thought;
the tragic view of politics and conflict in the “The Prince”;
the relation between “The Prince” and the “Discourses” and the foundation of good orders;
and the assessment of the meaning of political liberty and power in the study of Machiavelli’s ideas.
Participants
Giuliano Amato (Giudice della Corte Costituzionale)
Jérémie Barthas (Queen Mary, University of London)
Michele Battini (Università di Pisa)
Erica Benner (Yale University)
Thomas Berns (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Philip C. Bobbit (Columbia University)
Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)
Benedetto Fontana (Baruch College, CUNY)
Marie Gaille (Paris – CNRS)
Marco Geuna (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Giovanni Giorgini (Università di Bologna)
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (Italian Academy Fellow)
Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University)
Andreas Kalyvas (The New School for Social Research)
Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel University)
Bernard Manin (New York University)
Harvey Mansfield (Harvard University)
John P. McCormick (University of Chicago)
Thierry Ménissier (Université de Grenoble)
Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa)
Gloria Origgi (Italian Academy Fellow)
Pasquale Pasquino (New York University)
Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College)
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London)
Camila Vergara (Columbia University)
Sponsors:
Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
The Embassy of Italy, Washington DC
Columbia Seminar on Studies in Political and Social Thought
The Heyman Center for Humanities, Columbia University
For further information, please visit
www.italianacademy.columbia.edu