"New Paths in Political Philosophy," SUNY, Buffalo, and Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, March 28-29, 2008.

Friday, March 28 9:00-10:00: Coffee 10:00-10:30: Welcoming Remarks by Dean Charles Stinger (Arts and Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo). 10:30-1:00: David Johnson (SUNY-Buffalo), Chair

• Carlo Galli (University of Bologna, Italy): "Carl Schmitt nell’etá globale"
• Adam Sitze (Amherst College): "A Space Without War, a War Without Space: Remarks on Carlo Galli’s Political Spaces"

1:00-2:00: Lunch @ 904 Clemens Hall 2:00-4:30: Galen Brokaw (SUNY-Buffalo), Chair.

• Giuseppe Duso (University of Padua, Italy): "Pensare la politica oltre i concetti moderni"
• Miguel Vatter (Universidad Católica de Chile): "Republicanism or Modern Natural Right? The Question of the Origins of Modern Representative Democracy and the Political Thought of Giuseppe Duso"

4:30-5:00: Coffee 5:00-6:30: Sergio Villalobos (University of Arkansas), Chair.

• Brett Levinson (SUNY-Binghamton): "Politics and Optimism for the Blank Generation"
• Jon Beasley-Murray (University of British Columbia): "Biopolitics in Esposito and Negri"

9:00: Dinner at Lombardo’s Ristorante, 1198 Hertel Ave., Buffalo NY (873-4291) Saturday, March 29. 9:00-10:00: Coffee 10:00-12:30: Sara Nadal (University of Pennsylvania), Chair

• Roberto Esposito (University of Naples, Italy): "Persona, Uomo, Cosa: Per una filosofia del impersonale"
• Tim Campbell (Cornell University): "'Foucault Wasn’t a Person': Reflections on Idolatry and the Impersonal in Roberto Esposito’s Terza persona"

12:30-1:30: Lunch @ 904 Clemens Hall 1:30-4:00: Susana Draper (Princeton University), Chair.

• José Luis Villacañas (University of Murcia, Spain): "Representación/politización: Los supuestos liberales de la razón populista"
• Alberto Moreiras (University of Aberdeen, UK/SUNY-Buffalo): "Heimlich/Unheimlich: La in/domesticación del estar político"

4:00-4:30: Coffee 4:30-6:30: Laurence Shine (Buffalo State College), Chair.

• Bruno Bosteels (Cornell University): "Politics, Infrapolitics, Impolitics"
• Vincent Gugino (Legal Aid, Buffalo): "Republican Anxiety, or Franklin as Constitutional Thinker"

Further information may be found here: http://abdn.ac.uk/modern/node/23.