Provisional Programme
TUESDAY 4 APRIL 2006
16.00-20.00: Pre-registration
WEDNESDAY 5 APRIL 2006
08.30: Second Registration
09.30: Welcome comments: Dr. Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London)
09.40: Plenary Address: Professor J. H. Burns (UCL)
10.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor Ann Robson (Toronto)
Title: ‘A “Crisis” in Fashion’
Chair: Professor J. H. Burns (UCL)
10.30: Welcome Address by Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of UCL
10.40: Keynote Lecture: Professor John Skorupski (St Andrews)
Title: ‘Liberalism as Free Thought’
Chair: Professor J. B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins)
11.35: Tea/coffee break
11.50: Keynote Lecture: Professor Jonathan Riley (Tulane)
Title: ‘Justice as Higher Pleasure’
Chair: t.b.a.
12.45: Lunch break
14.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor James Griffin (Oxford)
Title: ‘What sort of liberty should we have?’
Chair: Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest) [t.b.c.]
15.00: Tea/coffee break
15.30: Panels Session 1
17.15: Panels Session 2
19.00: Close
19.30: Conference Dinner 1
THURSDAY 6 APRIL 2006
09.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor Ross Harrison (UCL)
Title: ‘Making free with liberty
Chair: Professor Paul Kelly (LSE)
10.00: Tea/coffee break
10.15: Keynote Panel. Chair: Dr. Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London),
Speakers:
Professor Bruce Kinzer (Kenyon College), ‘The Primacy of the Political and the Problem of Cultural Authority in an Age of Transition’
Professor Donald Winch (Sussex),‘Wild Natural Beauty and the Religion of Humanity: Mill’s Credentials as a “Green” Thinker’
11.15: Panels Session 3
12.45: Lunch break
14.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor Peter Singer (Princeton)
Title: ‘Mill’s Relevance: A Personal View’
Chair: Dr Roger Crisp (Oxford)
15.30: Tea/coffee break
16.00: Panels Session 4
17.30: Panels Session 5
19.00: Close
19.30: Conference Dinner 2
FRIDAY 7 APRIL 2006
09.00: Panels Session 6
10.05: Panels Session 7
11.45: Keynote Lecture: Professor Wendy Donner (Carleton)
Title: ‘John Stuart Mill and Virtue Ethics and Politics’
Chair: Professor Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Athens, Greece)
12.45: Lunch break
14.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
Title: ‘Mill’s Feminism: Liberal, Radical, and Queer’
Chair: Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL)
15.30: Panels Session 8
16.30: Tea/coffee break
16.45: Keynote Lecture: Professor Fred Rosen (UCL)
Title: ‘Parallel Lives in Logic: The Benthams and the Mills’
Chair: Professor J. B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins)
17.45: Round Table. Chair: Professor Peter Singer (Princeton)
Participants [so far confirmed]: Professor Brian Barry (LSE-Columbia), Dr Roger Crisp (Oxford), Dr Dale Mill (Old Dominion), Dr Helen Pringle (UNSW), Professor Donald Winch (Sussex).
19.30: Close
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