The 2015–2016 Political Theory Workshop was organized by co-chairs Emre Gercek and Boris Litvin.
Fall 2015
- Giuseppe Cumella, “Aristotle on Experience and Political Activity”
- Chris Sardo, “Between Unaccountability and Sovereignty: Nietzsche, Politics, and Responsibility”
Discussed by Arturo Chang and Kyle Jones - Boris Litvin, “Spectators, Crowds, Citizens, Men in General, and You, Madame: Political Theory and the Politics of Audience”
Discussed by Désirée Weber - Emre Gercek, “Social and Democratic Republic’: Democratic Sovereignty and Practices of Equality”
Discussed by Giuseppe Cumella - Charles Clarke, “Deportation: An Exception to Kantian Justice”
Discussed by Christina LoTempio
Winter 2016
- Miruna Barnoschi, “A Hobbesian Theory of Legitimate Revolution”
Discussed by Shaul Notkin - Lucy Cane, “Sheldon Wolin’s Politics and Vision”
Discussed by Lexi Neame - Julia Brown, “Defining the Terms: Religious Practice and Individual Conscience in John Locke’s Theory of Toleration”
Discussed by Boris Litvin - Tom Dabrowski, “Hobbes on ‘Good Laws’: Legitimacy, Reason, and Positive Law in Leviathan”
Discussed by Giuseppe Cumella - Rhiannon Auriemma, “In Defense of Feminist Killjoys”
Discussed by Christina LoTempio
Spring 2016
- Gina Giliberti, “Appearing Emotional: Affect and Recognition in the Arendtian Public”
Discussed by Shaul Notkin - Alan Kellner, “The Damage Done to our Species: Kant’s Global Politics and the Problem of Perfectibility”
Discussed by Gent Carrabregu