9:00-9:30

Catered Breakfast/Opening Remarks  

Dr. Justin Dyer  (Littlefield Home 302 W. 24th St. UT Austin Campus)

 

9:30-10:50

American Political Thought

(Littlefield Home)

Dr. Dustin Gish: “Lessons in Statesmanship: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in Paris”

Dr. Joey Barretta: “Liberal Education in a More Perfect Union: Washington and DuBois’s Debt to Douglass”

Dr. Lee Ward: “Thomas Jefferson on Higher Education: Republicanism, Neo-Humanism and Sectionalism”

Dr. Sarah Beth Kitch: “The Possibility of Tragedy: Why Politics Needs a Sense of the Unintentional and Irreconcilable”

Dr. Bolek Kabala: Incentivizing Civic Engagement at Public and Private Universities: Tax Exemptions, Laws, and Critical Dialogues”

 

10:50-11:00   COFFEE BREAK

 

11:00-12:20

American Political Development

(Littlefield Home)

Dr. Bat Sparrow: “With the ‘Lower Sort’: The Constitutional Implications of the Founders’ Interactions with Indentured Servants and the White Poor.”

Dr. Christine Bird: “The Federalist Society’s Policy Agenda”

Drs. Zac McGee & Sean Therriault: “Congressional Distribution of Power and the Reach of the Federal Government, 1865-1946.”

Drs. Benjamin Kleinerman & Matthew Reising: Ideational Institutionalism: Synthesizing American Political Thought and American Political Development

Drs. Tyler Thomas and Bradley Rebeiro: “Political Religion and Political Abolition: The Case of Salmon P. Chase”

 

12:20-1:00      LUNCH

 

1:00-2:20

Constitutional Law and Theory

(Littlefield Home)

Dr. Carli Conklin: “Blackstone Lawyers”: Law and Jurisprudence in the Early Republic

Ms. Isabelle Thelen: “The ‘Benign Prerogative’: Political Theory and Executive Pardoning”

Dr. Kathleen Tipler: “Formalism and Flexibility in Constitutional Interpretation: The Case of Trump v. United States:

Ms. Haley Proctor: “One Step too Many: The Choreography of Interpretation in Recent Supreme Court Decisions

Dr. David Upham: “Taking American Citizenship Seriously and the Recovery of the 14th Amendment”

 

2:20-2:30        COFFEE BREAK

 

2:30-3:50

American Political Thought and Constitutional Democracy

Dr. Keith Gaddie (Co-Authored with Dr. Jocelyn Evans): “Architecture of Democracy”

Dr. Jordan Cash: Competing Constitutional Logics.

Dr. Rita Koganzon: “Against Ventriloquizing Children: How Students’ Rights Jurisprudence Disguises Adult Culture Wars”

Dr. John Kitch: “In Defense of Caring Less: An Exploration of why Political Obsession is bad for America”

Mr. Joseph Natali: “The American Founding and the Problem of Public Administration”

 

3:50-5:30        BREAK

 

5:30-8:30

Cocktail Hour (5:30-6:30) & Dinner (6:30-8:30) Location Arena Hall

(5:30-6:30)

Mini-Book launch Presentations (app. 5 min for each presenter to take place during cocktail hour)

Dr. Justin Dyer: The Classical Origins of American Politics

Dr. David Upham: Taking American Citizenship Seriously and the Recovery

Dr. Constantine Vassiliou: Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

Dr. Jordan Cash: Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas; The Isolated Presidency; Congressional Deliberation

 

(7:30-8:30)

Dr. Jeff A. Jenkins: Keynote Address