The 2020–2021 Workshop Schedule
The 2020–2021 Political Theory Workshop was organized by political theory co-chairs Tim Charlebois and Usdin Martínez.
Fall 2020
- Arturo Chang, “Subverting Natures: Cross-Ethnic Unity and Republican Mestizaje in New Granada”
Discussed by Usdin Martínez - Prospectus Workshop
Tim Charlebois, “How to Die in Modernity: Compassion, Sacrifice and Loss in Political Theory’s Ethical Turn” - Shai Karp, “Machiavellian Empire: Expansion Between Domination and Freedom”
Discussed by Shawn Dean - Tom Dabrowski, “Colonial Foundations of Political Order”
Discussed by Shai Karp - Luke Ferguson, “The Care Crisis in Contemporary Political Theory”
Discussed by Sam McChesney - Shawn Dean, “‘For Republics Move in Slow Motion’: Conflict, Necessity, and the Politics of Dictatorship in Machiavelli’s Discorsi”
Discussed by Ely Orrego Torres - Practice Job Talk
Arturo Chang, “Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Post-Colonial Mexico”
Published in 2021 in American Journal of Political Science
Winter 2021
- Luke Ferguson, “The Spirit of Caste: Caste Critique and the Contestation of Racial Subjection in the United States”
Discussed by Shai Karp - Sam McChesney, “Soldier, Citizen, Wanderer: Arendt and the Paradigms of Courage”
Discussed by Usdin Martínez - Maya Novak-Herzog, “Is Frum Sex Better?: The Embodied-Subhuman Paradox in Female Sexuality, Western Culture, and Orthodox Judaism”
Discussed by Tim Charlebois - Usdin Martínez, “Motley Societies: René Zavaleta and Postcolonial Theories of Capital”
Discussed by Owen Brown - Owen Brown and Arturo Chang, “Maneuvering Empire: Indigenous Royalists, Black Loyalists, and Connecting Projects of Racial Resistance”
Discussed by Shah Zeb Chaudhary
Spring 2021
- Maya Novak-Herzog, “Utopian Sex and the Escape from Male Dominance”
Discussed by Lauren Baker