Claremont Institute Announces Panels at 2011 APSA Meeting
*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.*
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Claremont Institute Panels:* * *
*All Panels are in the Leonessa III Room of the Grand Hyatt Seattle*
The 112th Congress (Roundtable) — Thursday, Sept. 1, 8:00a
Chair: Kathleen Arnn, Claremont Graduate University
Participants: Kevin Portteus, Hillsdale College
William Voegeli, Claremont Institute
Joseph Postell, University of Colorado
Michael M. Uhlmann, Claremont Graduate University
Jaffa’s Thomism and Aristotelianism Reconsidered (Roundtable) — Thursday, Sept. 1, 10:15a
Chair: Christopher James Wolfe, Claremont Graduate University
Participants: Douglas Kries, Gonzaga University
Paul O. Carrese, US Air Force Academy
John Grant, Hillsdale College
Richard J. Dougherty, University of Dallas
The Return to Founding Principles: Should Natural Rights be Part
of the Conservative Resurgence? (Roundtable) — THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2:00p
Chair: Ronald J. Pestritto, Jr., Hillsdale College
Participants: Matthew Spalding, Heritage Foundation
Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College
James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia
Hadley Arkes, Amherst College
Patrick J. Deneen, Georgetown University
Xenophon, the Philosopher, and the Theological-Political Problem — Thursday, Sept. 1, 4:15p
Chair: James H. Nichols, Claremont McKenna College
Discussants: Khalil Habib, Salve Regina University
Robert C. Bartlett, Boston College
Participants: David Davies, University of Dallas
“The Dialectical Theology of ‘Memorabilia 4.6,’ or, Xenophon’s Socratic ‘kalam'”
Timothy W. Caspar, Hillsdale College
“Xenophon and Cicero on the Best Regime”
Eric Buzzetti, Concordia University
“Why Does a Philosopher Masquerade as a Soldier? The Case of Xenophon”
Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt — Friday, Sept. 2, 8:00a
Chair: William Morrisey, Hillsdale College
Discussants: Murray Bessette, Morehead State University
Participants: Catherine H. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
“Strauss vs. Schmitt on the Political”
Michael P. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
“Recent Attempts to Link Strauss and Schmitt: Misreadings and Misalliances”
Jon Fennell, Hillsdale College
“Carl Schmitt and Strauss’s ‘German Nihilism'”
The Recent Term of the U.S. Supreme Court (Roundtable) — Friday, Sept. 2, 10:15a
Chair: Melanie Marlowe, Miami University
Participants: Anthony A. Peacock, Utah State University
Robert Alt, Heritage Foundation
Eric Claeys, George Mason University School of Law
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas at Austin
The Resurgence of State Sovereignty: The Right Move for Conservatism? (Roundtable) — Friday, Sept. 2, 2:00p
Chair: Ralph A. Rossum, Claremont McKenna College
Participants: William Voegeli, Claremont Institute
Richard M. Gamble, Hillsdale College
Michael P. Federici, Mercyhurst College
Matthew Spalding, Heritage Foundation
The 150th Anniversary of Fort Sumter: Lessons for Presidential Power Today — Friday, Sept. 2, 4:15p
Chair: David K. Nichols, Baylor University
Participants: John Yoo, University of California, Berkeley
“Rehabilitating Lincoln”
Michael A. Genovese, Loyola Marymount University
“The Constitutional Logic of Fort Sumter”
John Marini, University of Nevada, Reno
“Presidential Power and the Limits of Executive Prerogative”
Thomas Karako, Kenyon College
“The Curious Case of Jose Arguelles”
Jason Jividen, Saint Vincent College
“A Popular Demand and a Public Necessity: Prerogative, the Plebiscitary Presidency, and the
Lincoln Example”
The Philosophical Foundations of Liberalism — Saturday, Sept. 3, 8:00a
Chair: Robert K. Faulkner, Boston College
Discussants: Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Peter Josephson, St. Anselm College
Susan Shell, Boston College
Participants: Nasser Behnegar, Boston College
“Locke’s State of Nature”
Peter McNamara, Utah State University
“Locke, Smith, and the Problem of Human Nature”
Christopher Nadon, Claremont McKenna College
“Paolo Sarpi on Constitutionalizing Religion”
Prospects for the 2012 Presidential Election (Roundtable) — Saturday, Sept. 3, 10:15a
Chair: Luigi Bradizza, Salve Regina University
Participants: Charles R. Kesler, Claremont McKenna College
Bradley C.S. Watson, Saint Vincent College
John J. Pitney, Jr., Claremont McKenna College
Brian T. Kennedy, Claremont Institute
Does a Return to the Constitution Mean a Return to Libertarianism? (Roundtable) — Saturday, Sept. 3, 2:00p
Chair: Ryan P. Williams, Claremont Graduate University
Participants: Michael S. Greve, American Enterprise Institute
Michael M. Uhlmann, Claremont Graduate University
Eric Claeys, George Mason University School of Law
Nikolai G. Wenzel, Hillsdale College
The Reagan Legacy for Today’s Politics on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth — Saturday, Sept. 3, 4:15p
Chair: John B. Kienker, Claremont Review of Books
Discussants: Charles R. Kesler, Claremont McKenna College
Kiron Kanina Skinner, Carnegie Mellon University
Participants: Andrew E. Busch, Claremont McKenna College
“Lessons from Reagan?”
Stephen F. Knott, US Naval War College
“Was Reagan a Great President?”
