2019 APSA Annual Meeting Schedule
DATE: Thursday, August 29 through Sunday, September 1, 2019
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
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For over twenty years the Claremont Institute has sponsored panels at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting. Addressing politics, history, & political philosophy, our panels bring together some of America’s leading intellectuals. For a text version of the schedule, see below. For an easy-to-print PDF version, click here.
In addition to our panels, Please join us Friday between 7:30 and 9pm for our annual Claremont Institute APSA reception, in Marriott, Wilson B.
Civic Education, Higher Education, and the Regime—Thursday, August 29, 8:00-9:30 am
Room: Omni, Congressional B
Chair: Matthew Peterson, Claremont Institute
Papers: Paul Carrese, Arizona State University
“The Mutual Influence of Liberal Education and Civic Education”
Kevin Walker, Colgate University
“Lady Philosophy vs. The Experts: Liberal Learning and the University in the Progressive Era”
Jose Arevalo, Hillsdale College
“State Laws on Education During the Founding”
Rebecca Burgess, American Enterprise Institute
“Fractured Civics and the Uncertain Regime: Whither Patriotism’s
Statesmen, Citizens, and Soldiers?”
Disc.: Carson Holloway, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Supreme Court Review Roundtable—Thursday, August 29, 10:00-11:30 am
Room: Omni, Congressional B
Chair: Elizabeth Slattery, The Heritage Foundation
Panel: Hadley Arkes, James Wilson Institute
Matthew Franck, Witherspoon Institute
John Eastman, Chapman University Law School
Anthony Peacock, Utah State University
American Conservatism Before, During, and After Trump—Thursday, August 29, 12:00-1:30 pm
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: Lindsay Eberhardt, Claremont Institute
Panel: Michael Anton, Hillsdale College
James Ceaser, University of Virginia
Peter McNamara, Arizona State University
Arthur Milikh, The Heritage Foundation
Henry Olsen, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Montesquieu and Rome—Thursday, August 29, 2:00-3:30 pm
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: Matthew Peterson, Claremont Institute
Papers: Michael Anton, Hillsdale College
“Montesquieu’s Considerations: A Case Study in the Cycle of Regimes”
Neil Rogachevsky, Yeshiva University
“Montesquieu and the Problem of Decadence”
Diana Schaub, Loyola University Maryland
“Women, Christianity, and the Modern in Montesquieu’s Romans”
Disc.: Paul Carrese, Arizona State University
Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Foundation of Rights in Classical and Contemporary Liberalism (Paper Panel)—Thursday, August 29, 4:00-5:30 pm
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: Alan Levine, American University
Papers: Eric Claeys, George Mason Law School
“Property and Natural Rights in Anglo-American Legal Thought and Nozick”
Elizabeth Eastman
“Eva Brann’s Contributions to Amer. Political Thought”
Samuel Goldman, George Washington University
“The New English Covenant and Amer. National Identity”
Disc.: Thomas Varacalli, Texas State University
Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
Natural Right and Classical Political Philosophy—Friday, August 30, 8:00-9:30 am
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: Jason Jividen, Saint Vincent College
Papers: Glenn Ellmers, U.S. Department of Energy
“Aristotle’s Natural Science: Political Philosophy as Architectonic Science”
Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois
“Modern Science and the Possibility of a Philosophy of Natural Right”
Dustin Sebell, Michaigan State University
“Xenophon’s Critique of Teleology”
Disc.: Catherine Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
Richard Hassing, Catholic University of America
Hobbes and the Problem of Modernity—Friday, August 30, 10:00-11:30 am
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: Rita Koganzon, University of Virginia
Panel: Kody Cooper, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Nicholas Higgins, Regent University
Devin Stauffer, University of Texas
Thomas West, Hillsdale College
Is the Administrative State a Crisis of Constitutionalism?—Friday, August 30, 12:00-1:30 pm
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: John Kienker, Claremont Institute
Panel: Susan Dudley, George Washington University
John Marini, University of Nevada-Reno
Johnathan O’Neill, Georgia Southern University
Adam White, George Mason Law School
Catholicism and the Contemporary World—Friday, August 30, 2:00-3:30 pm
Room: Omni, Senate Room
Chair: Matthew Peterson, Claremont Institute
Panel: Megan Arago, University of Dallas
Ralph Hancock, Brigham Young University
Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College
Philip Munoz, University of Notre Dame
Is Congress Still in Decline? Assessing the 116th Congress—Friday, August 30, 4:00-5:30 pm
Room: Omni, Calvert Room
Chair: Joseph Postell, Univ. of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Panel: Kathryn Pearson, University of Minnesota
Molly Reynolds, Brookings Institution
Matthew Spalding, Hillsdale College
James Wallner, R Street Institute
Still Imperial? The Presidency and the Constitution—Saturday, August 31, 8:00-9:30 am
Room: Omni, Forum Room
Chair: David Alvis, Wofford College
Papers: Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Jordan Miller, Royal Military College of Canada
“From the Barbary Pirates to ISIS: America’s Long History Fighting State-Sponsored Terrorism”
Jordan Cash, University of Virginia
“Washington, FDR, and the Constitutional Limits on Presidential Power”
Benjamin Kleinerman, Michigan State University
“The Constitutional Nature of Presidential Authority”
Elizabeth Spalding, Claremont-McKenna College
“The (Okay) Imperial Presidency Reconsidered”
Disc.: David Alvis, Wofford College
Adam Carrington, Hillsdale College
Punishment and Liberalism: Can Liberals Still Not Punish?—Saturday, August 31, 10:00-11:30 am
Room: Omni, Cabinet Room
Chair: Cary Federman, Montclair State University
Papers: Joseph Bessette, Claremont-McKenna College
“Liberal Elites vs. Mass Democracy: What Role Justice in Punishment?”
John Koritansky, Hiram College
“Retribution vs. Utility: The Hobbesian Roots of the Quarrel”
Peter Koritansky, University of Prince Edward Island
“Liberal and Illiberal Bases of Retribution”
Susan Shell, Boston College
“Punishment and Civic Honor: A Kantian Approach”
Disc.: Ronald Pestritto, Hillsdale College
Stanley Brubaker, Colgate University
The Intellectual Foundations of Identity Politics—Saturday, August 31, 12:00-1:30 pm
Room: Omni, Cabinet Room
Chair: Emina Melonic, University of Buffalo
Papers: David Azerrad, The Heritage Foundation
“Imagine all the People of Color: Social Justice and Identity Politics”
Eric Kaufmann, University of London
“The ‘Religion of Anti-Racism’: Why Ideology, not Tribalism, Explains
the Rise of Identity Politics”
Kevin Slack, Hillsdale College
“The Origins and Essence of Identity Politics”
Disc.: Ken Masugi, Johns Hopkins
Charles Kesler, Claremont Institute
Identity and Political Correctness in American Political Thought—Saturday, August 31, 2:00-3:30 pm
Room: Sheraton, Omni, Cabinet Room
Chair: Ryan Williams, Claremont Institute
Papers: Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
“The American Founders on Race and Diversity”
Christina Villegas, California State Univ.-San Bernardino
“From the Battered Women’s Movement to #MeToo: Feminism and the Politics of Violence”
Scott Yenor, Boise State University
“Disparities, Discrimination, and the Future of Feminism”
Disc.: William Voegeli, Claremont Institute
Lucas Morel (Washington & Lee University)
Tensions in Early Modern Political Philosophy—Sunday, September 1, 8:00-9:30 am
Room: Omni, Capitol Room
Chair: Lou Bradizza, Salve Regina
Papers: Khalil Habib, Hillsdale College
“Hobbes Contra Machiavelli”
Michael Hoffpauir, Clemson
“Machiavelli’s Development of Republican Morality in the Prince”
Paul DeHart, Texas State University
“Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Modern Resacralization of Political Order”
Sarah Onken, Hillsdale College
“Re-Evaluating Straussian Claims regarding Locke on Politics, Religion, and Morality”
Disc.: Lou Bradizza, Salve Regina
