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International Machiavelli Society, 2025 Conference, Paris
2025 Conference Program
Location: University of Chicago, John W. Boyer Center
41 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, France, December 11th-13th
Thursday, December 11th
14:30-15:20
Auditorium
Keynote Address: Jean-Louis Fournel, Machiavelli dopo Savonarola : il momento machiavelliano come momento savonaroliano
15:30-17:00
Auditorium
Machiavelli Europeo, I
Chair: Elsa Kammerer
Valerio Aparo, Machiavelli in Germania
Daniele Conti, Machiavelli neo-latino
Giacomo Sanavia, Traduzioni in francese, inglese e spagnolo dell’Arte della guerra
Small Classroom 1
Machiavelli and Liberalism
Mattia Di Pierro,Machiavelli e la modernità politica: le interpretazioni di Hannah Arendt e Sheldon Wolin
Andrew P. Gibson,Friedrich Meinecke’s Machiavelli (and Its Intellectual Legacy)
Small Classroom 2
The Laughter of Politics
Colleen Mitchell, The Role of Humor in M’s Political Thought
Mian Xu, The Tragicomedy of Politics
Large Classroom
Constructing Civil Life
Adam Woodhouse, Building in the State: from The Prince to the Discourses
Edward Johnson, Urban Space and Social Identity in Machiavelli
Luis Falcao,La memoria condivisa della fondazione (D, III, 1)
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
17:15-18:45
Auditorium
Machiavelli europeo, II
Chair: Gabriele Pedullà
Jean-Louis Fournel, “Machiavellli europeo and the languages of politics”
Jean Claude Zancarini, “Il Principe francese”
Andrea Salvo Rossi, “Le traduzioni dei Discorsi”
Medium Classroom
Perspectives on European Early Modern Machiavellianism, I
Francesca Russo, Machiavelli’s cultural and political legacy in Antonio Brucioli’s Dialogi della moral filosofia
Abram Kaplan, From “uno solo” to Descartes’ ego
Large Classroom
Machiavelli and Gramsci
Luka Ribarević,The Modern Prince in France: Lefort and Althusser on Gramsci’s Machiavelli
Giacomo Tarascio, Potere, mutamento e diritto: Machiavelli nell’incrocio fra le interpretazioni di Marx, Gramsci e Bobbio
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
Friday, December 12th
9:30-10:15
Auditorium
Keynote Address: Vickie Sullivan
10:30-12:00
Auditorium
Machiavelli’s Martial Influence, I
Lucia Delaini, The sword and the ranks: forming Machiavelli’s citizen soldier
Hillay Zmora, Machiavelli and the politics of fortification
Alessio Panichi, A Militant Emotion: Fear in the ‘Art of War’
Large Classroom
Machiavelli’s Realism?
Guido Ruggiero, Another Machiavelli: Romantic Dreamer and Traditional Thinker
Giannetti Valeria, Lo “storico più poeta che mai”. Il Machiavelli di Alessandro Manzoni
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
12:15-13:45
Auditorium
Machiavelli’s Martial Influence, II
Jacopo Pessina, The Lucchese Battaglioni: An Early Reception of the Machiavelli’s Militia in Lucca, 1512-1532
Elia Morelli, America’s Machiavellian Moment: the model of the citizen-soldier and the origins of the Second Amendment
Alessandro Lo Bartolo, Florentine Militias after Machiavelli: Arms, Citizenship, and Tyranny
Small Classroom 1
Literary Works, I
Katherine M. Robiadek, The Democratization of Desire in Machiavelli’s “Mandragola”
Soufiane Chaari, Mandragola e Belfagor arcidiavolo, tra comicità e politicità
Small Classroom 2
Rhetoric in the Chancery: Experiences and Concepts, II
Inês Pinheiro, Constituent Passions in Niccolò Machiavelli’s Scritti Politici Minori
Richard Devetak, Machiavelli and the International
Medium Classroom
Machiavelli letterato nella cultura editoriale e letteraria del XVI secolo
Chair: Valentina Leone
Michela Fantacci, Fortuna epistolare del Machiavelli letterato: percorsi cinquecenteschi
Alessandra La Neve, “Io non mi son per discostare troppo da bonba”. Riusi machiavelliani nelle commedie di Francesco D’Ambra
Giovanni Lamberti, Machiavelli commediografo e narratore nelle antologie del tardo Rinascimento
Valentina Leone, Giuliano de’ Ricci e Niccolò Machiavelli junior curatori del carteggio machiavelliano: progetti e ritratti ideali a confronto
Ilenia Viola, I “Capitoli” machiavelliani tra interventi correttori e di censura
Large Classroom
Virtue, Prudence, Morals, I
Mario De Caro, Machiavelli’s virtue politics
Maria Lucrezia Leone, “Eccelente virtù, per la qual fanno gli uomin maggiore la loro eccellenza.” The Conception of Prudence in Machiavelli
Raul Gonzalez, De la virtù machiavélienne à la virtus imperii spinoziste
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
13:45-15:00
LUNCH
15:00-16:30
Auditorium
The People, the Poor, and the Elite
Corinne Manchio, La questione della storicizzazione e della regola durante l’esperienza di cancelleria
Kazutaka Muraki, Machiavelli e la tradizione popolare nelle Città-Stato Italiane
Kieran Mabey, “tame the pride of the nobility:” Beyond beating down elite ambition
Small Classroom 1
Machiavelli and Idealism
Pietro Cea, Dio nella struttura politica del pensiero politico di Machiavelli
Giacomo Mangelli, Machiavelli “con” Vico, Machiavelli “contro” Vico
Small Classroom
Dangerous Knowledge
Chiara Silvestri, Two Italian anti-machiavellian intellectuals: Gian Vincenzo Gravina and his master Gregorio Caloprese
Davide Suin, Machiavelli tra gli Incogniti. Il caso di Tomaso Tomasi (1608-1658)
Medium Classroom
Literary Works, II
Gandolfo Cascio, “Thou esteemest my property, my honour, my life”: word, concept, culture in The Mandrake
Nicholas De Sutter, Machiavelli on the Latin Stage. A Little-Known Neo-Latin Drama by Augustijn Bloemaert
Large Classroom
Virtue, Prudence, Morals, II
Nedžib Prašević, Is overcoming M’s moral dilemma possible?
Max J. E. Morris, Competing Ways of Life in Machiavelli’s Discourses
Manuel Knoll, Machiavelli’s Political Ethics of Responsibility
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
16:45-17:30
Auditorium
Keynote Address: Machiavelli and the Brutes, Sean Erwin
17:30-19:00
Alison Brown, I.M.S. Lifetime Achievement Award & I.M.S. Business Meeting
Saturday, December 13th
9:30-11:00
Auditorium
Civil Conflict and Division
Marshall Pierce, Machiavelli’s Divided City: Ambizione, Ontology, and the Institution of Plebeian Counterpower
Laureano López, Négativité et antagonisme dans les Discorsi de Machiavel
Small Classroom 2
Speech and Rhetoric
Max Smith, Machiavelli’s Ideal Speech Situation
Giovanni Damele, Machiavellian rhetoric
Medium Classroom
Sources of the Istorie
Claudia Antonini, On Florentine Histories IV.21: The Speech by the man from Seravezza and its Livian model
Yuki Yokoo, Historiography on the Degeneration of the Roman Empire in Florentine Histories, Book I: Machiavelli’s Reception of Biondo Flavio
Large Classroom
Machiavelli and France
Gábor Almási, Machiavelli’s first French followers: the Cappel family
Gonzalo Bustamente, From Florence to Paris: Machiavelli’s Materialist Politics and the Evolution of LibertineThought
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
11:15-12:45
Auditorium
Liberty and Tyranny
Alessandro Mulieri, Democracy as the Rule of the Poor in Machiavelli and Renaissance Republicanism
Hanan Yoran, Machiavelli and Thomas More on the Source of Evil and Good Governance
Small Classroom 1
Flatterers, Counselors and Friends
Annalisa Ceron, Friends, flatterers, and enemies: political realism in Machiavelli’s The Prince
Daniel Tahmazyan, The Armenian Machiavelli? Khorenatsi and His Parallels with Niccolò Machiavelli
Piotr Perczynski, Machiavelli and Castiglione – the Renaissance art of getting political advice implemented
Small Classroom 2
Perspectives on Gender
Davorin Žagar, Gender Trouble(s) in Machiavelli
Charlie West, Gender, Class and Power in Machiavelli’s Belfagor
Large Classroom
Passion, Memory, Imagination
Elyssa Khoury, Imagining the Unimaginable: The Ideological Function of the Political Imagination in Machiavelli’s Politics of Transformation
Ioannis Evrigenis, Machiavellian Psychology
Lounge 1
Posters, Exhibits
Lounge 2
Posters, Exhibits
Auditorium
13:00-13:45
Keynote Address: Gabriele Pedullà
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