A full day of discussions featuring Banu Bargu (The New School), Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University), Massimiliano Tomba (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Uday Mehta (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), Marnia Lazreg (Hunter College), Uday Metha (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Sanjay Reddy (The New School).

Reception to follow.
Co-sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative.

Event Schedule

9—9.30 am
Coffee

I. 9.30—10.30 am
Massimiliano Tomba (ARC Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Reorienting the Enlightenment”

Uday Mehta (Department of Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Enlightenment without History and Politics”

II. 11.05 am—12.05pm
Anne Norton (Political Science Department, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania)
“The People, Steering: Democracy Beyond the Enlightenment”

Sanjay Reddy (Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research)
“Political Economy: Science of Justification, Instrument of Liberation”

12.35—2pm Lunch Break

III. 2—3pm
Banu Bargu (Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research)
“The Courage of Silence”

Marnia Lazreg (Sociology Department, Hunter College, CUNY)
“Tinkering with the Enlightenment:  Foucault’s Struggle with Kant”

IV. 4—4.30 pm
Akeel Bilgrami (Department of Philosophy, Columbia University)
“Rationality, Alienation, and the Ideals of the Enlightenment”

V. 5—6 pm
Conversation/Roundtable