The 2021 conference, to be held October 29-30, will be on “Civic Education in Polarized Times." We plan a Zoom webinar. You may register here. We will distribute the Zoom link to registrants shortly before the conference. 

Editors Eric Beerbohm and Elizabeth Beaumont have assembled the following excellent slate of speakers:

Friday, October 29

Keynote Address: 5:30-7:00 EDT

Dennis Thompson (Harvard University) and Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania) (presenting a paper co-authored with Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania)

Saturday, October 30

Panel I: 12:00-1:30 EDT

• Principal paper: Seana Shiffrin (UCLA, Philosophy)
• Commentator: Robert Tsai (Boston University, Law)
• Commentator: Brandon Terry (Harvard University, Political Science)

Panel II: 2:00-3:30 EDT

• Principal paper: Yael Tamir (Beit Berl College, Political Science)
• Commentator: Kristine Bowman (Michigan State University, Law)
• Commentator: Rima Basu (Claremont-McKenna, Philosophy)

Panel III: 4:00-5:30 EDT

• Principal paper: Justin Driver (Yale University, Law)
• Commentator: Jennifer Morton (University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy)
• Commentator: Lisa Garcia Bedolla (University of California-Berkeley, Political Science)

ASPLP members and registrants will have access to copies of the papers ahead of the conference.