Friday, November 15th
9.00 – 10.00 AM Registration
10.00 – 11.30 AM Panel Session 1
Room 2.07 |
1.1: Democracy, Populism, Republicanism I |
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Max Morris |
Chair |
Lei Letian |
Machiavellianism and Emmanuel Macron |
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Benjamin Schmid |
On the Relevance of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Understanding of Time for Contemporary Politics |
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Stefano Papa |
Obsolescence and the Limits of Collective Learning. On The Discourses I, 13 |
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Room 3.26 |
1.2: Politics, Ethics, Violence I |
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Brian Smith |
Chair |
Augusto Dolfo |
Machiavelli and the Autonomy of Politics Thesis |
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Zeliha Dişci |
The Continuity of Political Power in Machiavelli and the Problem of Sovereignty |
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Dimitrios Kotroyannos, Stylianos |
Machiavelli against Machiavellianism: The new “arte dello stato” |
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Room 2.18 |
1.3: Historical and Theoretical Debates I |
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Spartaco Pupo |
Chair |
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Matteo Cesare Mario Casiraghi; Francesco Testini |
Intellectuals, Politicians and Rhetorical Political Analysis: Machiavelli à la carte in the Italian Parliament 1861-1994 |
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Andrea Di Carlo |
Machiavelli and Contemporary Italian Populist Politics: The Prince and The Discourses |
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Giuseppe Sciara |
A Thinker for the Crisis Moments: Political uses of Machiavelli’s Thought from French Revolution to the Second Republic |
11.30 AM – 12.00 PM Coffee Break
12:00 – 1:30 PM Panel Session 2
Room 2.07 |
2.1: Democracy, Populism, Republicanism II |
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Alessandro Mulieri |
Chair |
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Natasha Piano |
Machiavelli and the “Modern Machiavellians”: Machiavelli and the Elite Tradition in Contemporary Political Thought |
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Eric Janec |
Machiavelli’s Lessons for Modernity: Normative Realism in Democracy |
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Miguel Saralegui |
The Prince’s Populism |
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Room 3.26 |
2.2: Politics, Ethics, Violence II |
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Gio Maria Tessarolo |
Chair |
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Piotr Kimla |
Machiavelli’s Timeless Political and Ethical Findings |
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Monika Mazur-Bubak |
Fear and Love – Two Emotions as the Basis of Politics |
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Alberto Simonetti |
Machiavelli Between Reason and Madness |
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Room 2.18 |
2.3: Historical and Theoretical Debates II |
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Andrea Di Carlo |
Chair |
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Elizaveta Elisseva |
A Man in Politics: From Machiavelli’s definitions of power, freedom and valour through Max Weber theory of management and charisma understanding to practical politics of T. G. Masaryk |
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Luke Ilott |
Michel Foucault, France’s Machiavellian Moment and the Uses of History in Political Thought |
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Efthimios Karayiannides |
Althusser’s New Prince, the ‘Crisis of Marxism’ and the Challenge of Populism |
1.30 – 2.30 PM Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 PM Panel Session 3
Room 2.07 |
3.1: Democracy, Populism, Republicanism III |
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Miguel Saralegui |
Chair |
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Christopher Holman |
Machiavellian Freedom and Equality: The Differing Democratic Conceptions of The Discourses on Livy and The Florentine Histories |
Max Morris |
The Wisdom and Nature of the People: Leo Strauss and John McCormick on Machiavelli |
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Alessandro Mulieri |
Machiavelli or the Theorist as a Popular Preacher |
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Camila Vergara |
Machiavelli and the Plebeian Power to Create and Punish. Towards a Republican Theory of Constituent Power |
Room 3.26 |
3.2: Politics, Ethics, Violence III |
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Jakub Franěk |
Chair |
Hugo Tavera Villegas |
Machiavelli on Exodus 32: Moses and the combat of envy |
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Waldemar Hanasz |
The Dilemmatic Nature of Politics in Machiavelli´s Thought |
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Gio Maria Tessarolo |
Between Form and Matter: Rethinking Machiavelli’s Concept of Corruption |
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Brian Smith |
Killing the Innocent in the 16th Century and Today |
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Room 2.18 |
3.3: Historical and Theoretical Debates III |
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Matteo Cesare Mario Casiraghi |
Chair |
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Matthew Slaboch |
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Lion: An Essay on Machiavelli’s View of History |
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Spartaco Pupo |
History, Political Science, and Trade. The original Machiavelli of David Hume |
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Phil Harris |
Reflections on Machiavelli’s Contribution to Management, Marketing and Public Affairs |
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Theodore Lai |
Time, Virtu and the State of Exception: A Machiavellian Approach to Emergency Powers |
Transfer to the Faculty of Arts building
4.30 – 7.00 PM Plenary Session I
(Faculty of Arts building, Room 131)
Filippo Del Lucchese
Democracy and Conflict: A Machiavellian Perspective
Vittorio Morfino
The Development of Machiavelli´s Althusserian Reading and its Political Significance
Transfer to the Anglo-American University building
7.30 PM Reception
Saturday, November 16th
9.00 – 10.00 AM Panel Session 4
Room 2.07 |
4.1: Politics and Conflict I |
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Jan Bíba |
Chair |
Kateřina Kubíková |
Machiavelli´s Perfect Republic: Relationship between class conflict and sortition |
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Carlos Corrochano Pérez |
Conflict and Politics: The Relevance of Italian thought from Machiavelli to Esposito |
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Room 3.26 |
4.2: Historical and Theoretical Debates IV |
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Phil Harris |
Chair |
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Birte Loschenkohl |
“Fit to Rule a Kingdom”: Machiavelli’s Mandragora and political judgment |
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Adam Smrcz |
Freedom and Political Agency in Machiavelli |
10.00 – 10.30 AM Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.00 PM Panel Session 5
Room 2.07 |
5.1: Politics and Conflict II |
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Jan Bíba |
Chair |
Luana Maria Alagna |
Claude Lefort as Interpreter of Machiavellian Social Conflict |
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Mattia Di Pierro |
Claude Lefort’s Interpretation of Discourses and The Prince: Conflict, power and the people |
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Emmanuel Charreau |
La Boétie with and against Machiavelli : Thinking conflict and desire in contemporary politics with Claude Lefort |
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Room 3.26 |
5.2: Machiavelli and IR |
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Daniela Lenčéš Chalániová |
Chair |
Manjeet Ramgotra |
Freedom and the Expansive Republic in Machiavelli’s Political Thought |
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Tereza Smejkalová |
The Role of Violence in Russian Politics and Machiavelli’s Perspective |
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Pnina Shuker |
Machiavelli in the Mirror of the Democratic Struggle with Foreign Intervention |
12.00 – 1.00 PM Lunch
Transfer to the Faculty of Arts building
1.30 – 5.00 PM Plenary Session II
(Faculty of Arts building, Room 131)
Jeffrey E. Green
Ten Theses on Machiavelli
Lawrence Hamilton
Machiavelli and Modern Democracy
Yves Winter
Analysing State Violence: A Machiavellian Frame
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