Boston College Philosophy Department
9th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Violence and Non-violence
March 28-29, 2008
Gasson 305
Keynotes: Dennis Schmidt, Jeffrey Bloechl, Peg Birmingham
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Conference Program
Friday
3:30pm – Jeffrey Witt, "Augustine and the Hope for Cicero’s Res Publica"
4:15 – Taylor Fayle, “Heraclitus and the Linguistic Turn”
5:00 – Phillip Braunstein, “Poetic Violence: The Deadly Word”
6:00 – Keynote: Dennis Schmidt, "Who counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable"
7:30 – Reception
Saturday
9:45am – Sarah McGrath, “Nonviolence and the Global Public Sphere”
10:30 – Peter Hanly, “Radical Enmity: Hobbes and Schmitt on Power, Violence, and Sovereignty”
12:30 – Keynote: Jeffrey Bloechl, "Towards a Topology of Incitement"
2:00 – Travis Holloway, “Violence in the Wake of Terror: A Psychoanalytic Case Study of Robert F. Kennedy, America, in 1968”
2:45 – Andrew Pierce, “Metaphysical and Political Violence at the Threshold of Democracy”
4:00 – Keynote: Peg Birmingham, “On Theological-Political Violence: Before the Law”