Shawnee Trail Conference
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
More Upcoming Events
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November 14
U.S. Trade Policy in the Next Administration
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Littlefield Home (302 W. 24th St.)
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November 15
Agency and Rule in Aristotle’s Politics with Dhananjay Jagannathan
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Littlefield Home (302 W. 24th St.)
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November 18
Habits of a Peacemaker
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM