The 2023–2024 Workshop Schedule
The 2023–2024 Political Theory Workshop is organized by political theory co-chairs Jinxue Chen and Charlotte Mencke.
Fall 2023
- October 20:
Charlotte Mencke, “Thought Has No Mothers but Only Fathers”: Subjectivity as Resistant Praxis in the Work of Christa Wolf”
Discussed by Amanda Fu - October 27:
Audrey Nicolaïdes, “They Have a World to Win: Friedrich Engels and the Origins of Communist Internationalism”
Discussed by Usdin Martínez
Spring 2024
- April 12:
Sovereignties Roundtable
Ayten Gündoğdu (Political Science, Barnard College), Demetra Kasimis (Political Science, University of Chicago,) Inés Valdez (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University)
This event is part of the Alice Kaplan Insitute for the Humanities’ 2023-2024 Sovereignties Dialogue. - April 26:
Skylar Clark, “Critical Rave and Techno-Blockades: Raving as Resistance in Contemporary Poland”
Discussed by Amanda Fu - June 6: End-of-Year Workshop
Audrey Nicolaïdes, “Two Ships Passing in the Algerian Night: Frantz Fanon and the French Left (1945-1962)”
Discussed by Usdin Martínez
Jinxue Chen, “Hannah Arendt and the Making of Cross-Cultural Judgment”
Discussed by Charlotte Mencke
Sam McChesney, “Transforming the ekklesia: Lysistrata, parrhesia, and the politics of courage”
Discussed by Amanda Fu
Danielle Ortiz, “Environmental Alienation and Embeddedness as Resistance”
Discussed by Lauren Baker
Amanda Fu, “Liberation of Women for or Beyond the Nation? Transnational Feminist Writings in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Anti-colonial Thought”
Discussed by Jinxue Chen