The Global Theory Workshop is a speaker series run by Shmulik Nili in the area of global studies in political theory, political philosophy, normative democratic theory, and related fields. Beginning in Spring 2021, in addition to inviting speakers, it will also focus on the professionalization of graduate students in political theory, as well as provide a space to share work.
2022–23
- January 23:
Graduate Professionalization: Publishing in Political Theory - February 27:
Loubna El Amine (Northwestern University) - April 3:
Graduate Professionalization: Preparing for the Theory Job Market - April 17:
Alex Zakaras (University of Vermont) - May 1:
Burke Hendrix (University of Oregon) - May 8:
Graduate Professionalization: Graduate Presentation - May 15:
Kevin Elliott (Murray State) - June 5:
Colleen Murphy (UIUC) and Linda Radzik (TAMU)
Past Global Theory Workshops
2021–22
- April 11:
Andrew M. Koppelman (Law, Philosophy and Political Science, Northwestern University)
“Rawls, Inequality, and Welfare State Capitalism” - April 18 (via Zoom):
Andrew March (Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“From Islamic Democracy to Muslim Democracy: Rached Ghannouchi in Thought and Action” - April 25 (via Zoom):
Margaret Moore (Political Science and Philosophy, Queen’s University)
“Biodiversity Loss and Territorial Rights-Forfeiture” - May 2:
Emilee Chapman (Political Science, Stanford University)
“Realism and Responsible Parties” - May 9:
Sarah Song (Law, Philosophy and Political Science, University of California Berkeley)
“Immigrant Legalization: A Dilemma between Justice and the Rule of Law” - May 16:
Melissa Schwartzberg (Politics, Classics and Law, New York University)
“The Scope of Legislative Bargaining” - May 23:
Eugene F. Soltes (Business Administration, Harvard Business School)
“The Difficulty of Being Good: Investigating Organizational Compliance and Misconduct” - June 6:
Megan Hyska (Philosophy, Northwestern University)
“What Is Social Organizing?”
2020–21
- Lucien Ferguson (Political Science and Law, Northwestern University)
“Coerced Consent: Rethinking the Troubled Tradition of Schneckloth v. Bustamonte” - Jiewuh Song (Political Science & International Relations, Seoul National University)
“Merit-Based Selection and Institutional Merit” - David Enoch (Philosophy and Law, Hebrew University)
“Politics and Suffering” - Professionalization Session
“Publishing Political Theory in Graduate School” - Sandra Field (Philosophy, Yale-NUS)
“Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics”
2019–20
- Lisa Ellis (Politics, University of Otago)
“Sectoral responsibility for climate justice: How much of the global carbon budget should we spend on international air travel?” - Jeffrey Howard (Political Science, University College London)
“In Defense of Prison Breaks”
2018–19
- Chiara Cordielli (Political Science, University of Chicago)
“Making the Law Together: Democratic Legitimacy in the Privatized State” - Jeff Spinner-Halev (Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Group Agency and Historical Injustice” - Robert Sparling (Political Studies, University of Ottawa)
“Debt, Corruption and State Identity in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought” - Abe Singer (Management, Loyola University Chicago)
“Racial Justice without Character: Structures, Agents, and the Extended Mind”
2017–18
- James Lindley Wilson (Political Science, University of Chicago)
“Making the All-Affected Principle Safe for Democracy” - Anna Stilz (Politics, Princeton University)
“Theorizing Collective Self-Determination” - Hélène Landemore (Political Science, Yale University)
“Democratic Representation Beyond Elections” - Ryan Pevnick (Politics, New York University)
“What Could Justify Representative Democracy?” - Alexander Kirshner (Political Science, Duke University)
“Legitimate Opposition Under Attack: Democracy, Populism and the Specter of Electoral Autocracy”