All meetings will be held Fridays 3:00pm – 4:30pm (EST) on Zoom (links to be provided)
Fall Term
October 16
Professor Dale Turner, “On the politics of Indigenous translation: Listening to Indigenous peoples in and on their own terms”
Discussant: Daniel Sherwin
October 30
Erfan Xia, “Montaigne and politics without vanity“
Discussant: Professor Ronald Beiner
November 20
Omar Garcia, “Politics and Phantasmagorias: Two Modalities of Forgetfulness in Walter Benjamin”
Discussant: Natasha Hay
December 4
Mary Johanna Macdonald, “Persons of the sex are true wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon’s Feminism of Fear
Discussant: Professor Emily Nacol
Winter Term
January 15
Daniel Sherwin, “Treaty Renewal”
Discussant: Professor Dale Turner
January 29
Nathan Olmstead, “I’ll Remember You in a Streetlight: data, temporality, and the spectral city”
Discussant: Professor Theresa Enright
February 12
Laila Khoshkar, “Path Dependence in Human Rights: Political Participation for Refugees and Asylum Seekers“
Discussant: Professor Peggy Kohn
February 26
Chi Kwok, “Taking Corporate Political Power Seriously: Beyond the Firm-State Analogy“
Discussant: Dr. Igor Shoikhedbrod
March 12
Joseph Dattilo, “On Reforming Universalism in Political Thought“
Discussant: Professor Matt Walton
March 26
Eugenia Blain, “The Significance of Phenomenology for Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin”
Discussant: Professor Clifford Orwin