[csaa-forum] Machiavelli’s The Prince: Five Centuries of History, Conflict and Politics

[Dimitris Vardoulakis]

Machiavelli’s The Prince 
Five Centuries of History, Conflict and Politics
International Conference
Wednesday 29th – Friday 31st  May 2013
Brunel University
 London 




Wednesday 29th May

09.30    Registration
Session 1

10.00    Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel University, London): Introduction

10.10    Justin Fisher (Head of School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, London): Welcome

10.15    Jean-Claude Zancarini (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon): HyperPrince. Premiers résultats d’un outil de comparaison entre l’édition princeps du Prince et ses traductions françaises du XVIe siècle

11.00    Jacques Lezra (New York University): Discourse, discord: The heart of Il Principe

11.45    Coffee Break

12.00    Yves Winter (McGill University): Violence and Realism in The Prince

12.45    Etienne Balibar (Kingston University, London): Esser principe, esser populare: The principle of antagonism in Machiavelli’s epistemology

Session 2

14.30    Jean-Louis Fournel (Université Paris VIII): La langue de la guerre selon Machiavel

15.15    Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre): Machiavelli the Tactician

16.00    Coffee Break 

16.15    Jérémie Barthas (Queen Mary, University of London): Machiavelli and public debt.

17.00    John M. Najemy (Cornell University): Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia: Another look at Chapter VII

17.45    Close

Thursday 30th May

Session 3

10.00    Thomas Berns (Université Libre de Bruxelles): L’efficacité prophétique: la relation des armes et des lois

10.45    Fabio Frosini (Università degli Studi di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’): Prophecy, education and necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between politics and religion

11.30    Coffee Break

11.45    Warren Montag (Occidental College, Los Angeles): ‘Uno mero esecutore’: Moses, God and fortune in the The Prince

12.30    Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales, Australia): Towards a republican conception of divine providence: A new reading of Chapter XXVI


Session 4

14.15    Alison Brown (University of London, Royal Holloway): Following an untrodden path: transgression and modernism in Lucretius and Machiavelli

15.00    Peter Stacey (University of California, Los Angeles): Machiavelli’s political ontology

15.45    Coffee Break

16.00    Vittorio Morfino (Università di Milano-Bicocca): The five theses of Machiavelli’s philosophy

16.45    Sebastián Torres (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba): Time and politics: a materialist reading of Machiavelli

17.30    Close

Friday 31st May

Session 5

10.00    Giorgio Inglese (Università di Roma, La Sapienza): Italia come spazio politico nel Principe e nei Discorsi.

10.45    John P. McCormick (The University of Chicago): Machiavelli on misawarded glory: Agathocles, Scipio and ‘the writers’.

11.30    Coffee Break

11.45    Laurent Bove (Université de Picardie, Amiens): Puissance et conservation. La leçon de Machiavel dans l’ontologie spinoziste.

12.30    Antonio Negri (Uninomade): Il tumulto costituente e la decisione del principe.

Session 6

14.15    Judith Revel (Université de Paris I, Sorbonne): Trois usages de Machiavel : Merleau-Ponty, Lefort, Foucault.

15.00    Mohamed Moulfi (Université d’Oran): Althusser, lecteur du Prince.

15.45    Coffee Break

16.00    Banu Bargu (The New School for Liberal Arts, New York): Machiavelli after Althusser.

16.45    Mikko Lahtinen (Tampereen Yliopisto): Machiavelli was not a republicanist – or a monarchist: on Louis Althusser’s ‘aleatory’ interpretation of The Prince.

17.30    Close

Conference organisers:

Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel University, London)
Fabio Frosini (Università degli Studi di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’)
Vittorio Morfino (Università di Milano, Bicocca)
Tania Rispoli (Università di Roma, Tor Vergata)

The conference is supported by:

Brunel Research and Innovation Fund
School of Social Sciences, Brunel University
Research Support and Development Office, Brunel University
Scuola Superiore di Studi in Filosofia, Università degli studi di Roma, Tor Vergata
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo, Università degli Studi di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione ‘Riccardo Massa,’ Università di Milano, Bicocca
Corporate Relations, Brunel University
Higher Education Academy
Media Centre, Brunel University

Conference fee: £60 (£20 for one day)
Concessions available for students and the unwaged at £30 (£10 for one day)
For booking and non - academic queries please contact Nikki Elliott (Nikki.Elliott at brunel.ac.uk<mailto:Nikki.Elliott at brunel.ac.uk>) or Jane Alexander (jane.alexander at brunel.ac.uk<mailto:jane.alexander at brunel.ac.uk>).
For academic queries please contact Filippo Del Lucchese (filippo.dellucchese at brunel.ac.uk<mailto:filippo.dellucchese at brunel.ac.uk>).

A limited number of bursaries are available to graduate students who do not have support available to attend the conference. Applications must be received by 30 March 2013. Please send a cover letter and a recommendation letter by your personal tutor or academic mentor to support your application to Tania Rispoli (tanize84 at yahoo.it<mailto:tanize84 at yahoo.it>).



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