The following time slots are tentative, please reach out to us if you have any concerns:
Rachel Wagner – r.wagner@mail.utoronto.ca
Miko Zeldes-Roth – m.zeldesroth@mail.utoronto.ca
Stefan Macleod – stefan.macleod@mail.utoronto.ca
All meetings will be held Fridays 3:00pm – 4:30pm (EST) in person in SSH3130.
Fall Term
October 6th
Prof. Clifford Orwin, “Taking Thrasymacus Seriously: Socratic Irony and the Tension between Philosophy and the City”
Discussant: Max Morris
October 20th
Rachael Desborough, “The Politics of Acknowledgment: World Building in Disability Communities”
Discussant: Prof. Menaka Philips
November 3rd
Rachel Wagner, “Mourning Immortality: Sigmund Freud on the Problem of the Body’s Privacy, Vulnerability, and Mortality”
Discussant: Prof. Ronald Beiner
November 17th
Joseph Dattilo, “In Sure and Certain Sickness: Pathologies of Moral Comfort and Conscience in Liberalism”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol
December 1st
Miko Zeldes-Roth, “Beyond White Citizenship: Approaching Racial Difference Without Hierarchy”
Discussant: Prof. Connor Ewing
Winter Term
January 19th
Prof. Melissa Williams, “Abolition Democracy”
Discussant: Victor Bruzzone
February 2nd
Kelsey Gordon, “Putting Love at The Centre: The Political Philosophy of Christine de Pizan”
Discussant: Prof. Matt Walton
February 16th
Devin Ouellette, “Diagnosing Women’s Subordination in Late-Qing China”
Discussant: Prof. Torrey Shanks
March 1st
Prof. Torrey Shanks, “Acts of Improperty: The Feoffees for Impropriation”
Discussant: Madalyn Hay
March 15th
Yang-Yang Cheng, “Reading with Compassion: A Theory of Democratic Readership”
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
April 5th
Max Morris, “Civil Religion and Philosophy in Plato’s Laws”
Discussant: Prof. Ronald Beiner
April 12th
Madalyn Hay, “Locke and the Origin of Fiduciary Governance”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol