The 2022–2023 Workshop Schedule
The 2022–2023 Political Theory Workshop is organized by political theory co-chairs Charlotte Mencke and Sam McChesney.
Fall 2022
- October 7:
Tim Charlebois, “Performing Attention: Critical Fabulation in Simone Weil’s Venice Saved”
Discussed by Amanda Fu - November 4:
Sam McChesney, “Hermeneutic Courage: Gadamer and Arendt on Democratic Thinking”
Discussed by Tim Charlebois
Winter 2023
- February 3:
Jinxue Chen, “Between Eastern and Western Traditions: Cultural and/or Temporal Difference?”
Discussed by Megha Summer Pappachen - February 24:
Amanda Fu, “Against the Social as Mere Catastrophe: Common Sense, Reification and Potential for the Political”
Discussed by Charlotte Mencke - March 3:
Ely Orrego Torres, “‘Agonistic’ Democracy in the Americas: Civil Society’s Understandings of Religious Freedom and Secularism at the Organization of American States (OAS)”
Discussed by Emma Davis - March 17:
Sam McChesney, “‘Words Had to Change Their Ordinary Meanings’: Political Courage and Stasis”
Discussed by Charlotte Mencke
Spring 2023
- May 5:
Audrey Nicolaïdes, “Imperial Reckonings: Rosa Luxemburg and the Crisis of German Social Democracy”
Discussed by Jeremi Dolecki - May 12:
Shai Karp, “Private Government at Home: Landlord Power and Rental Residential Domination”
Discussed by Tim Charlebois - May 19:
Charlotte Mencke, “Eros, Gossip, and Epistemic Uncertainty in Plato’s Symposium”
Discussed by Jinxue Chen - May 26:
Usdin Martínez, “Thinking Beyond Historicism: The Plural Temporalities of Postcolonial Politics”
Discussed by Audrey Nicolaïdes - June 2:
Amanda Fu, “Silence as Refusal, Care as Protest: On How to See Utopias”
Discussed by Usdin Martínez