2023-24

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