All meetings will be held Fridays 3:00pm – 4:30pm (EST) in person in SSH3130. We will provide a zoom link for those who are unable to attend in person.
Fall Term
October 7
Prof. Clifford Orwin, “Between Thucydides and Machiavelli: People, Party and Sect in Flavius Josephus’ Judaean War.”
Discussant: Rachel Wagner
NB: Session cancelled
October 21
Joseph Datillo, “Self-doubt and The Possibility of Toleration”
Discussant: TBD
November 4
Logan Gates, “Worldmaking in Bartolomé de las Casas’ Theory of Human Rights.”
Discussant: Prof. Ryan Balot
November 18
Prof. Menaka Phillips, “Democracy Dies in Darkness? Information, Access, and Curation as a Public Good”
Discussant: Kavita Reddy
December 2
Mary Jo MacDonald, “John Locke and Sarah Chapone on The Role of Inheritance in Political Education”
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
Winter Term
January 20
NB: Session cancelled
Rachel Wagner, “Mourning Immortality: Sigmund Freud on Eros, Thanatos, and the Limits of the Human Body”
Discussant: Prof. Ronald Beiner
February 3
Prof. Neil Roberts, “Policing’s Unfreedom”
Discussant: Jasmine Chorley-Schulz
February 17
Matthew Palynchuk, “Disability Justice: Grounded Normative and Non-Ideal Theory”
Discussant: Prof. Joe Carens
March 3
Prof. María J. Méndez, “Violence as work: Producing and refusing structures of injury”
Discussant: Omar Garcia
March 17
Yang-Yang Cheng, “The Circles of Compassion”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol
March 31
Iddan Sonsino, “What Exactly is The Freedom Problem of Work?”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol