SCHEDULE
Day 1: October 8
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Christel Dewadawson, Professor and Head of the Department, Department of English, DU.
Opening Words: Prasanta Chakravarty, Conference Convener
Session I
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Thomas Berns: Knowing the Ocassion in Machiavelli’s Thought
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Tea
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Victoria Kahn: Machiavellian Rhetoric Revisited
Chair: Sukanta Chaudhuri
Session II
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM: Paul Rahe: The Anatomy of an Error: Machiavelli’s Supposed Commitment to a ‘Citizen’ Militia
01:15 PM – 02:00 PM: Lunch
02:00 PM – 03:00 PM: Doyeeta Majumder: Machiavelli and Tyranny
Chair: Rimli Bhattacharya
Session III
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM: Swapan Chakraborty: Machiavelli Reading
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM: Tea
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM: Jean Louis Fournel: Machiavellian Words: Language as a Tool for Understanding and Acting
Day 11: October 9
Session I
10:00 – 11:00 AM: Yves Winter: Machiavelli’s Lucretia
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Tea
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Shirshendu Chakraborti: Machiavelli and the Question of the Self in Renaissance Literature and Art
Chair: Prasanta Chakravarty
Session II
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM: Rajeev Bhargava: Machiavelli on the Religious and the Secular
01:15 PM – 02:00 PM: Lunch
02:00 PM – 03:00 PM: Sukanta Chaudhuri: Machiavelli and Gandhi
Chair: Rahul Govind
Session III
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM : Tanya Roy/Enrico Arman/Alessandro Bordin/Koushik Sarkar/Rohit Kumar
Machiavelli in Italiano – A Reading Session
Chair: Vittorio Morfino
4:00 PM – 04:15 PM – Tea
Day 111: October 10
Session I
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: William Connell: Machiavelli among the Franciscans
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Tea
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Marcello Simonetta: Machiavelli’s Foresight in the Last Years
Chair: Victoria Kahn
Session II
12:15 PM – 01:15 PM: Vittorio Morfino: The Prince Between Gramsci and Althusser
01:15 PM – 02:00 PM: Lunch
02:00 PM – 03:00 PM: Prasanta Chakravarty: The Monastic Discipline of Hunting
Chair: Thomas Berns
Session III
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM: Catherine Zuckert (paper to be read by Madhvi Zutshi):
Machiavelli’s Belfagor. Good Government, Domestic Tyranny and Freedom
04:00 PM – 04:15 PM: Tea
04:15 PM – 05:15 PM: Rinku Lamba: Machiavelli and Weber on Rule, Leadership and Politics
Chair: Rajeev Bhargava
Vote of Thanks:
Rimli Bhattacharya, Tanya Roy, Rahul Govind, Madhvi Zutshi, Prasanta Chakravarty