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Political Theory Colloquium

The Political Theory Colloquium is a faculty-organized speaker series. The colloquium is currently organized by Loubna El Amine and Shawn Dean.

Upcoming Colloquium Presentations
2022–23
  • December 5:
    Molly Scudder (Political Science, Purdue University): “The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation”
    Discussed by Tim Charlebois
  • January 9:
    Desmond Jagmohan (Political Science, UC Berkeley): “Bound in Freedom: Martin Delany on Political Inequality and Social Injury”
  • February 6 (via Zoom):
    Katrina Forrester (Government and Social Sciences, Harvard University): “Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’ Internationalism from Below”
    Discussed by Amanda Fu
  • February 13:
    S M Amadae (Social Sciences, University of Helsinki): “Game Theory’s Missed Model of Systemic Discrimination:  Discussing the Wider Implications”
    Discussed by Megha Summer Pappachen
  • March 6:
    Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Political Science, Haverford College): “Three Responses to Shifting Borders: Sovereigntism, Democratic Cosmopolitanism, and the Watershed Model”
    Discussed by Jinxue Chen
  • April 24:
    Tae-Yeoun Keum (Political Science, UC Santa Barbara): “Voltaire’s Socrates and the Enlightenment Plato”
    Discussed by Charlotte Mencke
  • May 22:
    David Temin (Political Science, University of Michigan): “The Struggle for Treaty: Ella Cara Deloria and Vine Deloria Jr. on Anticolonial Relations”
    Discussed by Lauren Baker

 

Past Colloquium Presentations

In 2021-22, the colloquium was organized by Jacqueline Stevens and Amanda Fu.

2021–22
  • October 11:
    Inés Valdez (Political Science and Latino/a Studies, Ohio State University)
    “Labor, Nature, and Empire: Alienation and the Colonial Political Rift”
    Discussed by Usdin Martínez
  • January 21:
    Jeremy Waldron (Law, New York University)
    “Locke and the Pragmatics of Legitimism”
    Discussed by Evgenia Mikriukova
  • February 7:
    Glen Coulthard (Political Science and First Nations & Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia)
    “Red Skin, White Masks: A Conversation with Glen Coulthard”
  • February 15:
    Bonnie Honig (Political Science and Modern Culture & Media, Brown University)
    “Truth Queens: The Biblical Esther from Eve Sedgwick to Ivanka Trump”
    Discussed by Amanda Fu
  • February 21:
    Erin Pineda (Government, Smith College)
    “An Entire World in Motion: Civil Disobedience as Decolonizing Praxis”
2019–20
2018–19
2017–18
2016–17
  • Ryan Balot (Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto)
    “The ‘Truest Tragedy’ in Plato’s Laws
  • Larissa Atkison (Political Science, Northwestern)
    “The Ajax Problem: Sophocles and the Politics of Good Sense”
  • Don Herzog (Political Science and Law, University of Michigan)
    Sovereignty, R.I.P.
    Published in 2020 in Sovereignty, R.I.P. (New Haven: Yale University Press).
  • Edith Hall (Classics, King’s College, London)
    “That Goblin Word: Why We Need to Rethink What We and Aristophanes Mean by Demagogue”
  • Alexander Schmidt (Historische Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
    “Rights of Man Redefined: Fichte’s Legal Positivism as Response to the Crisis of Natural Law”
2015–16
2014–15
  • Helga Varden (Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    Kant and Women
    Published in 2017 in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (4): 653–694.