The Public Interest
2009 Breslauer Graduate Student Conference
May 7-8, 2009
UC Berkeley

This multidisciplinary conference seeks to create an opportunity for discussing the public interest both as an operating logic for practice as well as an ethical claim linked to particular political imaginaries. It maps different ways in which meanings and objectives of the public interest are constantly redefined and reappropriated by exploring techniques, procedures and technologies deploying its idiom; analyzing contentions, participations and mobilizations of its diverse aspirations; and examining norms, normalizations and informalities in its constitution. It does so because the repercussions of how the public interest is defined and which actors are able to (re)define it have critical consequences for both conceptions and practices of government, democracy, development and social justice.

SCHEDULE

See the 2009 Breslauer Conference Website for full details on speakers and panel topics.

Thursday, May 7
5-7:30 p.m. Welcome Reception

Friday, May 8
9 a.m. Panel 1
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. Panel 2
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break
1 p.m. Panel 3
3 p.m. Closing Reception