BIOS OF PANEL CHAIRS & PARTICIPANTS OF THE CLOSING ROUNDTABLE Chiara Bottici Assistant Professor. PhD 2004, European University Institute. Professor Bottici obtained her PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and taught at the University of Frankfurt before joining the New School for Social Research. She has written on myth, imagination, ancient and early modern philosophy, Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, Marxism, anarchism, contemporary social and political philosophy. Stathis Gourgouris Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA 1990. Professor Gourgouris writes and teaches on a variety of subjects, ultimately entwined around questions of the poetics and politics of modernity. He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996) and Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, 2003), and editor of the forthcoming Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2009). Outside these projects he has also published numerous articles on Ancient Greek philosophy, modern poetics, film, contemporary music, Enlightenment law, psychoanalysis. He is currently completing work on two projects of secular criticism: The Perils of the One and Nothing Sacred. He is also an internationally awarded poet, with four volumes of poetry published in Greek, most recent being Εισαγωγή στην Φυσική *Introduction to Physics+ (Athens, 2005). He has translated the work of various Greek poets into English – notably Yiannis Patilis’ Camel of Darkness (Quarterly Review of Literature Book Series, Vol 36, 1997) – as well as the poetry of Heiner Müller and Carolyn Forché into Greek. He writes regularly in major Greek newspapers and journals on political and literary matters. He is currently the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Andreas Kalyvas Associate Professor of Political Science. PhD, Political Science, Columbia University; MA, Columbia University; BA, National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens, Greece. Professor Kalyvas is interested in democratic theory and the history of political ideas from ancient Greek and Roman to modern to contemporary continental political theory. In particular, his work focuses on the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism; problems of popular sovereignty, representation, and political autonomy; radical foundings, revolutionary breaks, and constitution making; the norm and the exception; emergency rule; citizenship and cosmopolitanism. His current research is oriented toward questions of constituent power and radical democratic politics on the one hand and on the overlapping of tyranny and dictatorship in Western political thought, on the other. He is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally titled "Legalizing Tyranny: Constitutional Dictatorship and the Enemy Within" while working on a second one, "Constituent Power and Radical Democracy."

Robyn Marasco Assistant Professor at Hunter College. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2006); M.A., University of California, Berkeley (2000); B.A. Smith College (1999). Areas of Specialization: History of Political Thought: Modern and Contemporary; Critical Theory; Feminist Theory. Publications: "'I would rather wait for you than believe you are not coming at all': Revolutionary love in a post-revolutionary time," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 36, no. 6, July 2010, 643-662. "A Grammar of Hope in An Age of Empire?" Review of Paolo Virno's Grammar of the Multitude, Theory & Event, Vol. 9, issue 4, 2006. "'Already the Effect of the Whip': Critical Theory and the Feminine Ideal," differences, Vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 2006, 88-115. Todd May Dr. May took his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1989, and has been at Clemson (after a brief stint at Indiana University of Pennsylvania) since 1991. He specializes in Continental philosophy, especially recent French philosophy. He has authored ten philosophical books, focusing on the philosophical work of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière. His book The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism has been influential in recent progressive political thought, and his work on Rancière is among the first in English. May’s writings also seek to bridge the gap between "Anglo-American" and "Continental" styles of philosophy that developed in the early twentieth century. His teaching interests are varied; he has found himself teaching classes as diverse as Anarchism, The Thought of Merleau-Ponty, Resistance and Alterity in Contemporary Culture, Secular Ethics in a Materialist Age, and Postmodernism and Art. Ross Poole BPhil 1969, Oxford University. Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Philosophy. Concentrations: Historical justice, nationalism, the politics of memory, emotions and politics, borders, contemporary political philosophy, history of political philosophy. Nadia Urbinati Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989 Professor Urbinati is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and founded and chaired the Workshop on Politics, Religion and Human Rights. She is co-editor with Andrew Arato of the journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization-Istanbul Seminars. Professor Urbinati is the winner of the 2008-9 Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2008

the President of the Italian Republic awarded Professor Urbinati as Commendatore della Repubblica (Commander of the Italian Republic) "for her contribution to the study of democracy and the diffusion of Italian liberal and democratic thought abroad." In 2004 her book Mill on Democracy (cited below) received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize as the best book in liberal and democratic theory published in 2002. Professor Urbinati is the author of Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University of Chicago Press 2006), and of Mill on Democracy: from the Athenian Polis to Representative Government (University of Chicago Press, 2002; Italian translation by Laterza 2006). She has edited Carlo Rosselli, Liberal Socialism (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Piero Gobetti, On Liberal Revolution (Yale University Press, 2000). She co-edited with Monique Canto-Sperber Le socialisme libéral:Une anthologie; Europe-Ëtats-Unis (Ėditions Esprit, 2003; Italian translation by Marsilio/Reset 2004); with Alex Zakaras, John Stuart Mill's Political Thught: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge University Press 2007), and with Stefano Recchia, A Cosmpolitanism of Nations:Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2009). She is co-editing with Steven Lukes Condorcet's Political Writing (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge Texts Series).