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Conference Announcement Theme: Political Legitimacy Type: 1st Oxford Symposium on Comparative Political Philosophy Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 10.–12.7.2019 __________________________________________________ The 1st Oxford Symposium on Comparative Political Philosophy will be held at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford on 10-12 July. The program is here: Day 1 (10/7) 10:30-11:00 Registration + Welcome speech 11:00-1:00 Keynote speaker’s speech Angle, Stephen (Wesleyan University), “Do institutions have authority over us? Reflections on the history of Confucian renzhi 人治 versus fazhi 法治 debates” 1:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-4:00 Section 1: Legitimacy and Popular Sovereignty Herr, Ranjoo (Bentley University) “Confucian Democracy as Popular Sovereignty” Tseng, Roy (Center for Political Thought, RCHSS, Academia Sinica) “Confucian Res Public–Dialogue between Confucianism and British Idealism” 4:00-4:30 Tea and Coffee break 4:30-5:30 Section 1: Legitimacy and Popular Sovereignty (continued) Koseoglu, Talha Mukaddesatçi (Bilkent University, Ankara) “Political Thought in Cold War Turkey” Day 2 (11/7) 9:00-11:00 Section 2: Legitimacy and Popular Sovereignty Chan, Joseph (University of Hong Kong) “Recognitional legitimacy and the Confucian perfectionist conception of authority” (Skype presentation) Chan, Elton (Yale-NUS College, Singapore) “Legitimacy and power relations: a Confucian case for popular sovereignty” 11:00-11:30 Tea and Coffee break 11:30-12:30 Section 2: Legitimacy and Popular Sovereignty (continued) Von Vacano, Diego (Texas A&M University) “Princely Performative Populism” 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:30 Section 3: The cultivation of virtue Wong, Baldwin (Chinese University, Hong Kong) “The division of educational labour between Confucian education and political liberalism” Mang, Franz (City University of Hong Kong) “Democracy, intellectual virtues, and Confucianism” 3:30-4:00 Tea and Coffee break 4:00-5:00 Section 3: The cultivation of virtues (continued) Rathnam, Lincoln (Duke Kunshan University) “Ritual, Consent, and Commitment-Confucianism and political legitimacy” After 5:00 Wine and conference dinner Day 3 (12/7) 9:00-12:00 Section 4: Ruling and resistance Caporioni, Giovanni (Birkbeck, University of London) “The limit of human plasticity-Jiwei Ci on domination and resistance in liberal order” Ip, Kevin (Hong Kong Baptist University) “Political Authority and Resistance to Injustice” Lee, Wilson (University of Edinburgh) “Confucianism and Totalitarianism Mengzi and Xunzi reconsidered via Arendt” Lai, Larry (University of Hong Kong) “Is political resistance morally justified in authoritarian regime? A Chinese Legalist perspective” 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-4:00 Session 5: Legitimacy in context Zhao, Wenqing (Whitman College) “Two Laws, Not One–Legitimacy and Legality in Huang Zongxi” Kwon, Kyung Rok (City University of Hong Kong) “Affective Accountability and Political Legitimacy in Confucian Sentimentalist Representation” Rodrigues, Shaunna (Columbia University) “An Islamic Justification of a liberal political conception” Venue Lecture Theatre 2 Blavatnik School of Government Radcliffe Observatory Quarter 120 Walton Street University of Oxford Oxford OX2 6GG The symposium is open to public. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact: Baldwin Wong ([email protected]) Elton Chan ([email protected]) Larry Lai ([email protected]) Nikolas Kirby ([email protected]) More details are available here: https://cppsymposium.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
