Friday, November 15^th

9.00 – 10.00 AM Registration

10.00 – 11.30 AM Panel Session 1

Room 2.07		*1.1: Democracy, Populism, Republicanism I*
	Max Morris	Chair
	Lei Letian	Machiavellianism and Emmanuel Macron
	Benjamin Schmid	On the Relevance of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Understanding of Time for Contemporary Politics
	Stefano Papa	Obsolescence and the Limits of Collective Learning. On The Discourses I, 13
Room 3.26		*1.2: Politics, Ethics, Violence I*
	Brian Smith	Chair
	Augusto Dolfo	Machiavelli and the Autonomy of Politics Thesis
	Zeliha Dişci	The Continuity of Political Power in Machiavelli and the Problem of Sovereignty
	Dimitrios Kotroyannos, Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis	Machiavelli against Machiavellianism: The new “arte dello stato”
Room 2.18		*1.3: Historical and Theoretical Debates I*
	Spartaco Pupo	Chair
	Matteo Cesare Mario Casiraghi; Francesco Testini	Intellectuals, Politicians and Rhetorical Political Analysis: Machiavelli à la carte in the Italian Parliament 1861-1994
	Andrea Di Carlo	Machiavelli and Contemporary Italian Populist Politics: The Prince and The Discourses
	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*
	Alessandro Mulieri	Chair
	Natasha Piano	Machiavelli and the “Modern Machiavellians”: Machiavelli and the Elite Tradition in Contemporary Political Thought
	Eric Janec	Machiavelli’s Lessons for Modernity: Normative Realism in Democracy
	Miguel Saralegui	The Prince’s Populism
Room 3.26		*2.2: Politics, Ethics, Violence II*
	Gio Maria Tessarolo	Chair
	Piotr Kimla	Machiavelli’s Timeless Political and Ethical Findings
	Monika Mazur-Bubak	Fear and Love – Two Emotions as the Basis of Politics
	Alberto Simonetti	Machiavelli Between Reason and Madness
Room 2.18		*2.3: Historical and Theoretical Debates II*
	Andrea Di Carlo	Chair
	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
	Luke Ilott	Michel Foucault, France’s Machiavellian Moment and the Uses of History in Political Thought
	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*
	Miguel Saralegui	Chair
	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
	Alessandro Mulieri	Machiavelli or the Theorist as a Popular Preacher
	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*
	Jakub Franěk	Chair
	Hugo Tavera Villegas	Machiavelli on Exodus 32: Moses and the combat of envy
	Waldemar Hanasz	The Dilemmatic Nature of Politics in Machiavelli´s Thought
	Gio Maria Tessarolo	Between Form and Matter: Rethinking Machiavelli’s Concept of Corruption
	Brian Smith	Killing the Innocent in the 16th Century and Today
Room 2.18		*3.3: Historical and Theoretical Debates III*
	Matteo Cesare Mario Casiraghi	Chair
	Matthew Slaboch	The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Lion: An Essay on Machiavelli’s View of History
	Spartaco Pupo	History, Political Science, and Trade. The original Machiavelli of David Hume
	Phil Harris	Reflections on Machiavelli’s Contribution to Management, Marketing and Public Affairs
	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 16^th

9.00 – 10.00 AM Panel Session 4

Room 2.07		*4.1: Politics and Conflict I*
	Jan Bíba	Chair
	Kateřina Kubíková	Machiavelli´s Perfect Republic: Relationship between class conflict and sortition
	Carlos Corrochano Pérez	Conflict and Politics: The Relevance of Italian thought from Machiavelli to Esposito
Room 3.26		*4.2: Historical and Theoretical Debates IV*
	Phil Harris	Chair
	Birte Loschenkohl	“Fit to Rule a Kingdom”: Machiavelli’s Mandragora and political judgment
	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*
	Jan Bíba	Chair
	Luana Maria Alagna	Claude Lefort as Interpreter of Machiavellian Social Conflict
	Mattia Di Pierro	Claude Lefort’s Interpretation of Discourses and The Prince: Conflict, power and the people
	Emmanuel Charreau	La Boétie with and against Machiavelli : Thinking conflict and desire in contemporary politics with Claude Lefort
Room 3.26		*5.2: Machiavelli and IR*
	Daniela Lenčéš Chalániová	Chair
	Manjeet Ramgotra	Freedom and the Expansive Republic in Machiavelli’s Political Thought
	Tereza Smejkalová	The Role of Violence in Russian Politics and Machiavelli’s Perspective
	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