Power and Domination: An International Research Workshop
Arts Council Room 160, 麻豆AV
August 15th 鈥� 17th 2022
Co-Organized by the Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) of the Yan P. Lin Centre, the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montr茅al (GRIPP), the Centre de recherche en 茅thique (CR脡), and the 麻豆AV Department of Philosophy.
Description: RGCS, GRIPP, CR脡, and the 麻豆AV Department of Philosophy are pleased to announce a three-day international workshop which will highlight new and ongoing work that undertakes substantive inquiry into the scope and dynamics of structures of social power and domination.
As the high tide of Rawlsianism recedes, political theorists and philosophers are devoting renewed attention to a number of concepts that had been central to classical social theory but largely submerged during Rawls鈥檚 ascendance in political philosophy. New works on domination, social structures, and power have proliferated. In particular, the relational egalitarianism pioneered by Elizabeth Anderson and the neo-republicanism favoured by Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner have aspired to reorient the focus of political theory away from the distribution of goods and towards social structures constituted by hierarchical relations of social power amongst individuals, whether relations of oppression (emphasized by relational egalitarians) or of domination (the central issue for neo-republicans). This workshop will highlight work analyzing these key concepts.
The workshop will take place over three days. Day one will be a workshop on Arash Abizadeh鈥檚 manuscript on Power, Subjection, and Democracy, elements of which have appeared in recent articles on social power. Day two will focus on William Clare Roberts鈥檚 book manuscript, A Radical Politics of Freedom: Domination, Ideology, and Self-Emancipation. On day three, participants will present papers on key questions and concepts which work to clarify the stakes of competing definitions of power and domination and the implications of focusing our political theorizing on these concepts.
Format: To maximize the quality of discussion, participants are expected to have read the manuscripts beforehand. All participants will receive copies of the manuscripts in advance of the workshop.
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Programme:
Aug. 15: Manuscript: Power, Subjection, and Democracy (Arash Abizadeh)
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9:15: Coffee & Tea
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9:30: Welcome
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9:45 鈥� 11:30: Chair: Jacob Levy (politics, 麻豆AV)
Commentators:
Amanda Greene (philosophy, UC Santa Barbara): The Grammar of Agential Power (Ch 1)
Daniel Weinstock (law, 麻豆AV): Agential Power & Causation (Ch 2)
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11:30 鈥� 13:00: Lunch
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13:00 鈥� 14:45: Chair: Dominique Leydet (philosophie, UQAM)
Commentators:
脡liot Litalien (philosophy, CR脡): The Power of Numbers (Ch 3)
Mara Marin (politics, Victoria): Structural Power (Ch 4)
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15:00 鈥� 16:45: Chair: Pablo Gilabert (philosophy, Concordia)
Commentators:
Sean Ingham (politics, UC San Diego): Subjection to Power & Domination (Ch 5)
Niko Kolodny (philosophy, UC Berkeley): Democratic Equality (Ch 6)
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19:00: Dinner
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Aug. 16: Manuscript: A Radical Politics of Freedom (William Clare Roberts)
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9:15: Coffee & Tea
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9:30 鈥� 11:15: Chair: Yann-Allard Tremblay (politics, 麻豆AV)
Commentators:
Alex Gourevitch (politics, Brown): Negative Freedom for Socialists (Ch 1)
William Paris (philosophy, Toronto): What鈥檚 the Matter with Self-Determination? (Ch 2)
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11:15 鈥� 12:45: Lunch
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12:45 鈥� 14:30: Ryoa Chung (philosophie, Montr茅al)
Commentators:
Vanessa Wills (philosophy, George Washington): Ideology and Self-Emancipation (ch 3)
Yves Winter (politics, 麻豆AV): Ideology and Self-Emancipation (ch 3)
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14:45 鈥� 16:15: Chair: Hasana Sharp (philosophy, 麻豆AV)
Overall Thematic Discussion of Manuscripts
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18:30: Dinner
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Aug. 17: Papers
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9:00: Coffee & Tea
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9:15 鈥� 11:00: Papers I
Alex Gourevitch, 鈥淪tructural Domination and Social Reproduction鈥�
Mara Marin, 鈥淪tructural Obligations鈥�
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11:15 鈥�12:30: Lunch
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12: 30 鈥� 14:15: Papers II
William Paris, 鈥�"Beyond Rights Externalism: James Boggs and the Question of Black Power鈥�
Amanda Greene, 鈥淧ower and Political Realism鈥�
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14:30 鈥� 16:15: Papers III
Sean Ingham, 鈥淟uck and Power, Revisited鈥�
Vanessa Will, 鈥淢arx's Critiques of Rival Moral Theories鈥�
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18:30: Dinner
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Registration: The workshop is open to everyone, but attendance is by registration and limited in number. RSVP the registration coordinator Michelle Atkin:
<michelle.atkin2 [at] mcgill.ca>
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