Convegno su Machiavelli

MACHIAVELLI CONFERENCE – SCHEDULE & PANELS
Friday, December 6th
8:30 – 9:00
COFFEE & PASTRIES
9:00 – 9:30
OPENING REMARKS
David Freedberg – Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Giuliano Amato – Giudice della Corte Costituzionale
David Johnston – Columbia University
9:30 – 11:15 –
PANEL I
Chair: Nadia Urbinati – Columbia University
Quentin Skinner – Queen Mary, University of London
“Machiavelli on Describing the Vices as Virtues”
Giovanni Giorgini – Università di Bologna
“Machiavelli on Good and Evil: The Problem of Dirty Hands Revisited”
Discussant: Bernard Manin – New York University
11:15 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 1:15 –
PANEL II
Chair: Riccardo Viale – Director Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Thierry Ménissier – Université de Grenoble
"Corruption, Virtue and the Republic in Machiavelli"
Erica Benner – Yale University
“The Necessity to Be Not-Good: Machiavelli’s Realism and Foreign Relations”
Discussant: Turkuler Isiksel – Columbia University
1:30 – 2:30
LUNCH
2:30 – 4:15 –
PANEL III
Chair: Jean Cohen – Columbia University
Jérémie Barthas – Queen Mary, University of London
“'To Enjoy the Present Advantage of Being Able to Despoil the People': Financial Order and
Political Disorder in Machiavelli”
Benedetto Fontana – Baruch College, CUNY
“Machiavelli and the Gracchi: On the Relation Between Republican Liberty and Class Conflict”
Discussant: Michele Battini – Università di Pisa
4:15 – 4:30
COFFEE BREAK
4:30 – 6:15 –
PANEL 4
Chair: Karuna Mantena – Yale University
Thomas Berns – Université Libre de Bruxelles
“The Expanding Character of Liberty in Machiavelli”
Marie Gaille – CNRS-Université Paris Diderot
“Citizenship and the Desire for Freedom: What Kind of a Democrat Is Machiavelli?”
Discussant: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti – Italian Academy Fellow
6:15 – 7:30
7:30 – 9:30
RECEPTION
DINNER FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
Saturday, December 7th
8:30 – 9:00
COFFEE & PASTRIES
9:15 – 11:00 –
PANEL 5
Chair: Barbara Carnevali – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Philip C. Bobbit – Columbia University
“The Prince and the Discourses: One Masterpiece”
Marco Geuna – Università degli Studi di Milano
“Extraordinary Accidents in the Life of Republics: Machiavelli and Dictatorial Authority”
Discussant: Andreas Kalyvas – The New School for Social Research
11:00 – 11:15
COFFEE BREAK
11:15 – 1:00 –
PANEL 6
Chair: Helena Rosenblatt – CUNY Graduate Center
Pasquale Pasquino – New York University
“Machiavelli’s The Prince and the Principality by Acquisition”
Paul A. Rahe – Hillsdale College
“The Ecclesiastical Principality”
Discussant: Michael Mosher – University of Tulsa
1:15 – 2:30
LUNCH
2:30 – 4:15 –
PANEL 7
Chair: Bryan Garsten – Yale University
Jo Ann Cavallo – Columbia University
"On Political Power and Personal Liberty in The Prince and the Discourses"
Filippo Del Lucchese – Brunel University
“Machiavelli and the Constituent Power: The Revolutionary Foundation of Modern Political
Thought”
Discussant: Camila Vergara – Columbia University
4:15 – 4:30
COFFEE BREAK
4:30 – 6:15 –
PANEL 8
Chair: David Johnston – Columbia University
Harvey Mansfield – Harvard University
“Machiavelli’s Verità Effettuale”
John P. McCormick – University of Chicago
“The Tyrant as Republican Reformer in Machiavelli’s Discourses”
Discussant: Gloria Origgi – Italian Academy Fellow
6:30 – 7:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Nadia Urbinati – Columbia University