Friday, September 20
Holly Brewer (University of Maryland)
Friday, September 27
John Lombardini (William & Mary)
Friday, October 18
Practice Job Talks (Nicholas Barden, Andrew Gibson, Matthew Hamilton)
Friday, February 9
Amongst Friends and Enemies Alike: Judith Shklar in the 20th Century
Joshua Cherniss (Georgetown University)
Kristen R. Collins (George Mason University)
Shal Marriott (McGill University)
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University) and Samuel Zeitlin (UCL)
Discussants: Andrew Sabl (University of Toronto) and Michelle A. Schwarze (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
This event was generously supported by the Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding.
Friday, February 23
Emma Saunders-Hastings (Ohio State University)
Friday, March 22
Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto)
Friday, September 29
Glory Liu (Johns Hopkins University)
Friday, October 27
Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore College)
Friday, November 3
Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)
Friday, March 17
Melissa Schwartzberg (New York University)
Friday, March 31
Mark Fisher (Georgetown University)
Friday, April 21
Hélène Landemore (Yale University)
Friday, October 14
Daniel Lee (UC Berkeley)
Friday, October 28
Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth University)
Friday, November 18
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University)
Friday, February 18
Olufemi Taiwo (Georgetown University)
Friday, February 25
Marcus Board (Georgetown University)
Monday, March 14
Matthew Specter (special session jointly with GUITARS) (University of California, Berkeley)
Friday, March 18
Rosemarie Wagner (Harvard University)
Friday, April 8
Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (University of Cambridge)
Friday, September 17
Daniel Luban (University of Oxford)
Friday, October 15
Henry Richardson (Georgetown University)
Friday, October 22
Amanda Greene (University College London)
Friday, October 29
Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University)
Friday, November 12
Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
Friday, February 12
Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong)
Friday, February 26
Richard Boyd (Georgetown University)
Friday, March 19
Thijs Kleinpaste (Georgetown University)
Friday, April 16
Ingrid Creppell (The George Washington University)
Friday, April 23
Ross Berg (The George Washington University)
Friday, April 30
Terrence Johnson (Georgetown University)
Friday, May 7
Giulia Oskian (Yale University)
Neil Roberts (Williams College): "Creolizing Arendt, Creolizing Thinking" (with Marilyn Nissim-Sabat)
Nathan Pippenger (U.S. Naval Academy): "Anxieties of Membership: American Citizenship after Democratic Nationalism"
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia): "Taking Responsibility, Winning Freedom: Toni Morrison’s Practice of Liberation"
Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago) & Adom Getachew (University of Chicago): "Democracy and Empire: An Introduction to the International Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois"
Sophie Smith (Oxford University)
Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Bernardo Zacka (MIT)
Lucia Rafanelli (George Washington University), "Toleration as Engagement" [ICC 662, 11am]
Samuel Chambers (Johns Hopkins University), "Marx’s Unorthodox Theory of Money" [ICC 450, *2pm*]
Diego von Vacano (Texas A&M University), "The People's Hero: Machiavelli and Populism" [ICC 662, 11am]
Katrina Forrester (Harvard University), Book talk: In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy [*ICC 563*, 11am]
Alison McQueen (Stanford University), "Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies" [ICC 450, *2pm*]
Stefan Eich (Georgetown University), "The Theodicy of Growth: John Rawls, Political Economy, and Reasonable Faith" [ICC 662, 11am]
Elizabeth Edenberg (Georgetown University), "Rawlsian Reasonableness: A Moral Threshold of Respect" [ICC 662, *12:30pm*]
Robinson Woodward-Burns, Howard University
"Emerson on Self-Reliance, Mobbing, and Constitutional Reform"
Kristen Collins, Georgetown University
"Adam Smith on the Consequences of Inequality for Political Spectatorship"
Melissa Lane, Princeton University
"How the 'Thirty Tyrants' Got Their Name, and Why It Matters"
Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University
"Hegelian Equality as Inseparable from Freedom"
Joshua Cherniss, Georgetown University
"Building 'Houses for Free Men': Adam Michnik and the Ethics of Democratic Resistance"
Mark Fisher, Georgetown University
"Thucydides on the Corruption of Language, or The Unbearable Lightness of Logos"
Turkuler Isiksel, Columbia University
"A Purposive Account of Moral Agency?"
Michael Gillespie, Duke University
"Erasmus and the Invention of Morality"
Gerald Mara, Georgetown University
Daniela Cammack, Yale University
"Deliberation in Ancient Greek Assemblies"
Shannon Stimson, Georgetown University
"Political Economy and Reform"
Genevieve Rousselier, Duke University
"Rousseau and the possibility of a modern republic"
Juliet Hooker, Brown University
"Grief and Black Politics: From Black Death to Black Life"
Kyong-Min Son, University of Delaware
"Populism or Disintegrating Democracy? Finance Capitalism and the Volatile Politics of Citizenship"
Arash Abizadeh, McGill University
"Glory and the Evolution of Hobbes' Disagreement Theory of War: From Elements to Leviathan"
Alan Kahan, Florida International University