The Prince at 500
An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Niccolò Machiavelli
Hunter College, CUNY
November 8th, 2013
Room B126 (Chanin Language Center)
Opening Remarks
First Session
2:00 – 3:15
Chair: Monica Calabritto (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Paul Oppenheimer (City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Machiavelli as Poet-Historian
Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)
State Power and Personal Liberty in The Prince
Coffee Break
Second Session
3:30 – 5:15
Chair: Paolo Fasoli (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Stefano Albertini (New York University)
The Physician-Prince: Medicine as Paradigm of Political Science
Andrea Fedi (SUNY at Stony Brook)
‘This is Business, Not Personal’: Playing the Parts of the Secretary and the Duke, in Love and Other Social Games
Jonathan Soffer (New York University – Poly)
Feminist Machinations: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Recuperation of Emancipatory Machiavellianism
Closing Remarks
Reception (room W1327)
