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DECEMBER 1: DAY 1

9:00am - 10:00am: REGISTRATION

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10:00 - 10:15 am: OPENING REMARKS

Speaker: Alex Gourevitch

10:15am - 11:45am: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Is Politics Possible Without Sovereignty?

Chair: Alex Gourevitch
Speakers: Prof Andrew Arato
Prof Nadia Urbinati
Prof Simon Critchley

11:45am - 12:00pm: COFFEE BREAK

12:00pm - 1:30pm: SESSION 1: Sovereignty as Law, Sovereignty as Politics

Chair: Prof Jean Cohen
Speakers: Ian Zuckerman: 'Reconstructing Popular Sovereignty With and Against Hannah Arendt'
Dr. Michael Savage: 'Legalizing Politics and Politicizing Law: The Changing Relationship Between Sovereignty and Law'
Discussants: Bajeera McCorkle

1:30pm - 2:30pm: LUNCH

2:30pm - 4:00pm: SESSION 2: Alternatives to the Sovereign State - European Integration, State-Building

Chair: Prof Andrew Arato
Speakers: Chris Bickerton: 'Re-Constructing States, De-Constructing State-Building'
James Heartfield: 'European Integration: A Process Without a Subject'
Discussant: Prof Andrew Arato

4:00pm - 4:30pm: COFFEE BREAK

4:30pm - 6:00pm: PLENARY SPEAKER: Prof Jean Cohen: International Law and Popular Sovereignty


DECEMBER 2: DAY 2

9:30am - 10:00am: REGISTRATION

10:00am - 11:30am: SESSION 3: Sovereignty versus Human welfare? The cases of human security and new development thinking

Chair: Nicholas Frayn
Speakers: John Pender: 'State-Building Through Poverty Reduction in Tanzania'
Tara McCormack: 'The Dangers of Human Security'
Discussants: Prof Sanjay Reddy, Prof David Kennedy

11:30am - 12:00pm: COFFEE BREAK

12:00pm - 1:30pm: SESSION 4: Undoing Sovereignty - Cosmopolitanism, Rights, and Global Civil Society

Chair: Prof Sheri Berman
Speakers: Prof David Chandler: 'Deconstructing Sovereignty: The Challenge of Global Civil Society'
James Ingram: 'Sovereignty, Rights, and Law – On Some Fetishes of the Global Disorder'
Discussants: Prof Nadia Urbinati

1:30pm - 2:30pm: LUNCH

2:30pm - 4:00pm: SESSION 5: In Whose Name? The theory and practice of sovereign authority

Chair: Prof Jack Snyder
Speakers: Alex Gourevitch: 'National Insecurities: Moral Crisis and Foreign Policy in Contemporary America'
Philip Cunliffe: 'Politics Without Sovereignty? The understanding of agency in contemporary international theory'
Discussants: Prof James Der Derian

4:00pm - 4:30pm: COFFEE BREAK

4:30pm - 6:00pm: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Can Sovereignty Be Defended? If So, How?

Chair: Alex Gourevitch
Speakers: Prof Michael Doyle
Prof James Der Derian
Prof Jack Snyder
Prof David Kennedy

6:00pm - 6:15pm: CLOSING REMARKS

6:15pm - 7:00pm: DRINKS RECEPTION