(Chair: Professor Janet Coleman, LSE/NYU)

Professor Mark Bevir (Berkeley): The Contextual Approach: Then and Now
Professor John G. Gunnell (Albany/UC Davis): Challenging the Received View of Thought and Language: Wittgenstein on Intention, Interpretation, and Context
Dr Michael L. Frazer (Harvard): The Ethics of Interpretation in Political Theory and Intellectual History

(Chair: Dr Reidar Maliks, Oxford)

Dr Carsten Dutt (Heidelberg): On the Very Concept of Interpretation
Professor Dieter Teichert (Konstanz/Lucerne): Hermeneutics: the Political, Politics, and Political Science
Professor Jean Grondin (Montral): Are There Political Consequences of Hermeneutics? Impromptus on the Modest Political Competence of Philosophy
Professor Paul H. Fry (Yale): Gadamer vs. HirschAre There Consequences?

Chair: Jens Olesen (Oxford)

10:00 11:00 Welcome and Introduction
Professor Michael Freeden (Oxford) Ideology Between Method and Meaning: The Gateway to the Political

This series of podcasts is taken from an interdisciplinary conference convened by Jens Olesen, held on 23 and 24 September 2011 in Seminar room A, Manor Road Building.

Friday, 13 May, DPIR, 15:15-16:30
Paper:Ron Johnston (University of Bristol)
Chair: John Curtice
Discussant: David Butler

This series of podcasts represents highlights from the conference entitled Current issues in apportionment and redistricting: international perspectives.

Friday, 13 May, DPIR, 14:00-15:15
Paper:John Curtice (Strathclyde University)
Chair: Tom Lubbock
Discussant: Steve Fisher (DPIR, Sociology, Trinity College)

This series of podcasts represents highlights from the conference entitled Current issues in apportionment and redistricting: international perspectives.

Friday, 13 May, DPIR, 10:45-12:00
Paper:Nigel Bowles (DPIR, Rothermere American Institute)
Chair: Michel Balinksi (cole Polytechnique)
Discussant: David Goldey

This series of podcasts represents highlights from the conference entitled Current issues in apportionment and redistricting: international perspectives.

Friday, 13 May, DPIR, 9:15-10:30
Paper: Tom Lubbock (Jesus College)
Chair: David Goldey (DPIR, Lincoln College)
Discussant: David Butler (DPIR, Nuffield College)

This series of podcasts represents highlights from the conference entitled Current issues in apportionment and redistricting: international perspectives.

Thursday, 12 May, Lincoln College - 17:00-18:15
Paper: Luc Borot (Maison Franaise dOxford)
Chair: Peter Pulzer (All Souls College)
Discussant: Iain McLean (DPIR, Nuffield College)

This series of podcasts represents highlights from the conference entitled Current issues in apportionment and redistricting: international perspectives.

Key note speech: 16.30 - 18:00
Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W. Norton 2007). She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (Under contract with Harvard University Press).