All meetings will be held Fridays 3:00pm – 4:30pm (EST) on Zoom (links to be provided)
Fall Term
October 8
Prof. Ronnie Beiner, “The Moses Story in the Hebrew Bible: Puzzles and Paradoxes”
Discussant: Zak Black
October 22
Tim Berk, “Heidegger and Comparative Political Theory”
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
November 5
Eric Schildroth, “Pluralist Political Officials: Why Officials Should be Pluralists, and How to Make Them So”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol
November 19
Jasmine Chorley Foster, “Capitalist Social Reproduction by Destruction: A Marxist Feminist Approach to the Study of Soldiers”
Discussant: Prof. Arturo Chang
December 3
Victor Bruzzone, “Radical Democracy as Stable Dissensus: A More Difficult Consensus”
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
Winter Term
January 28
Etienne Cardin-Trudeau, “Rousseau and The Spirit of Autonomy: A Pathos of Vigour”
Discussant: Prof. Clifford Orwin
February 11
Michael Sabet, “Does Democracy need Adversarialism? The Baha’i Political Model”
Discussant: Dr. Clayton Chin (The University of Melbourne)
February 18
Prof. Neil Roberts, “Creolizing Arendt, Creolizing Thinking”
Discussant: Omar Garcia
March 4
Yang-Yang Cheng, “Politics of Compassion, or Politics without Compassion?”
Discussant: Prof. Joe Carens
March 18
Stefan Macleod, “What is the Role of Solidarity in Global Justice?”
Discussant: Prof. Andy Sabl
April 1
Prof. Arturo Chang, “Negotiating Racial Subjection: Linking Black and Indigenous Resistance through an Order-Centered Framework”
Discussant: Devin Oullette