Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke

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The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions would like to announce its upcoming symposium:

Empire and Revolution: The Political Thought of Edmund Burke

Thursday, September 10th, 2015
1:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208

For related inquires, please contact the organizer, Yiftah Elazar (yiftah.elazar@mail.huji.ac.il)
 
Schedule
 
1:45-2:00 Opening Remarks 
STEVEN SMITH, Yale University
 
2:00-4:00 Political Thought and Public Life
 
Political Theory in Political Life”
DAVID BROMWICH, Yale University
 
“Bourke’s Burke: Philosophical History Versus Quotidian Politics”
J.C.D. CLARK, University of Kansas
 
RICHARD BOURKE, Queen Mary, University of London Respondent
 
KARUNA MANTENA, Yale University Chair
 
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
 
4:30-6:30 Empire, Revolution, and International Competition
 
“Empires of Revolution and of Law: Burke’s Britain in the World”
JENNIFER PITTS, University of Chicago
 
“Burke, Political Economy, and the Future of Europe”
ISAAC NAKHIMOVSKY, Yale University
 
RICHARD BOURKE, Queen Mary, University of London Respondent
 
STEVEN PINCUS, Yale University Chair
 
6:30-7:00 Reception
 
August 17, 2015