tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69379916414248098292011-08-01T21:49:19.174-04:00Harvard University will be hosting a conference to mark the hundredth anniversary of Isaiah Berlin's birth on September 25-26th. This blog contains information on the conference program, and will contain constantly-updated news on the conference.Joshua Chernisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01859315171689732133noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6937991641424809829.post-43861193875839739502009-08-18T18:15:00.014-04:002009-09-16T18:34:41.247-04:00The following represents the scheduled time and formal participants for each panel; the titles are provisional. We hope to have an updated schedule, with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">finalized</span> titles, soon.<br />All panels will be held in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tsai</span> Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA.<br /><br />Friday September 25<br /><br />10:00 Welcoming Remarks<br /><br />10:15-12:30 Panel 1: Politics Between Utopia and Reality<br />Michael <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Walzer</span> -- Should We Reclaim Political <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Utopianism</span><br />Malachi <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hacohen</span> --Cosmopolitanism, the European Nation State and Jewish Life: Berlin and Popper<br />Chair: Stanley <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hoffmann</span><br />Discussant: Peter Eli Gordon<br /><br />12:30-2:15 Lunch<br /><br />2:15-4:30 Panel 2: Literature and the History of Ideas<br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Svetlana</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boym</span> -- Dialogues on Liberty Beyond the Cold War: Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova<br />Alan Ryan -- The History of Ideas as Psychodrama<br />Chair: Nancy Rosenblum<br />Discussant: Louis <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Menand</span><br /><br />We hope, in addition, to organize an informal 'multi-media' session<br /><br />Saturday September 26<br /><br />10:15-12:30 Panel 3: Liberty and Liberalism<br />Janos <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kis</span> -- Berlin's Two Concepts of Positive Liberty<br />Martha <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Nussbaum</span> -- Political Liberalism and Comprehensive Liberalism<br />Chair: T.M. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Scanlon</span><br />Discussant: Erin Kelly<br /><br />12:30-2:15 lunch<br /><br />2:15-4:30 Panel 4: Pluralism: Historical Origins and Philosophical Foundations<br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Pratap</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mehta</span> -- What is Pluralism and How Does it Matter?<br />Bernard <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Yack</span> -- The Significance of Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment<br />Chair: Emma Rothschild<br />Discussant: <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ioannis</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Evrigenis</span><br /><br />5:00-6:00 Special Session<br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">Amartya</span> Sen: What Difference Does Pluralism Make?<br />Chair: Michael Rosen<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6937991641424809829-4386119387583973950?l=berlincentenary.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Joshua Chernisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01859315171689732133noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6937991641424809829.post-83135270113282206362009-04-14T19:55:00.004-04:002009-06-02T15:52:25.573-04:00Invited speakers will include:<br /><br />Svetlana Boym, Harvard University<br />Malachi Haim Hacohen, Duke University<br />Janos Kis, Central European University and New York University<br />Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi and New York University Law School<br />Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago<br />Alan Ryan, University of Oxford and Princeton University<br />Amartya Sen, Harvard University<br />Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton<br />Bernard Yack, Brandeis University<br /><br />Each panel will also include a chair and respondent; these will include:<br /><br />Peter Eli Gordon, History, Harvard University<br />Erin Kelly, Philosophy, Tufts University<br />Louis Menand, English, Harvard University<br />Emma Rothschild, History, Harvard University and Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge<br />T.M. 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