All meetings will be held Fridays in SS3130 from 3-4:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Fall Term
October 4
Professor Clifford Orwin, “Self-Reliance and Roguishness: On the Surprising Modernity of Xenophon’s Socrates.”
Discussant: Zak Black
October 18
Thilo Schaefer, “Reconsidering Robert Nozick’s Framework for Utopia.”
Discussant: Prof. Torrey Shanks
November 1
Erfan Xia, “Manners and Endeavour in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy.”
Discussant: Professor Andrew Sabl
NOTE: time changed to 12-1:30PM
November 15
Professor Emily Nacol, “Poverty, Labour, and Trust in Locke’s ‘Essay on the Poor Law’.”
Discussant: Dr. Igor Shoikhedbrod
November 29
Dr. Eric Cheng, “Political Friendship, Trust Production, and the Problem of Hypocrisy.“
Discussant: Professor Melissa Williams
Winter Term
January 17
Dr. Patti Lenard, “Sanctuary As a Model of Democratic Non-Cooperative Resistance.“
Discussant: Professor Joe Carens
January 31
Discussant: Professor Matthew Walton
February 14
Amanda Arulanandam, “City of Man, Cities of Pride: St. Augustine on the Corrosive Character of Pride Within Political Life.“
Discussant: Dr. Nathan Pinkoski (Post-Doctoral Fellow at St. Michael’s College)
February 28
Victor Bruzzone, “Habitual Subjectivity and Radical Democratic Action“
Discussant: Prof. Ronnie Beiner
March 20 – CANCELLED due to COVID-19
NOTE: Date pushed back by one week, time is still 3-4:30PM
Qianqian Wang, “Legitimate and Sure: Reconsidering Rousseau’s Political Scheme”
Discussant: Dr. Scott Dodds
March 27 – CANCELLED due to COVID-19
NOTE: Time changed to 2:30 – 4PM
Chi Kwok, “Epistemic Justice and Workplace Organization.”
Discussant: Professor Emily Nacol