The first half of the summer has been full of conference travel that I haven’t gotten the chance to recap yet. Find all the details after the jump.
In early June I attended the Twentieth Biennial Meeting of the Rousseau Association at the University of Florida. The 2017 theme was, “Silence, the Implicity, and the Unspoken in Rousseau.” It was my first time at the colloquium and it was as wonderful as I’d hoped it would be, bringing together Rousseau scholars from a number of different disciplines to produce a really rich and thought-provoking few days. I gave a presentation titled “The Deceptions of Silent Authority: Tutor, Legislator, and the Function of Lies.”
A few weeks later I traveled to New York for the conference of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s annual gathering. This year’s edition was titled, “Theorizing Levity, Decolonizing Freedom,” and I presented a paper on the revolutionary Amílcar Cabral called, “Culture, Violence, and Two Moments of Decolonization.”
Finally, I presented a paper titled, “Legitimacy & Revolt: A Realist Alternative,” at two different conferences. First, at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom at the Association of Social and Political Philosophy gathering; then at the North American Society for Social Philosophy conference in Chicago, at Loyola University on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Now that I am back amidst the relative quiet of Lewisburg, PA and Bucknell’s relatively empty campus I am ready to get back to work!