Spring 2024

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)

Fall 2023

Friday, September 29

Glory Liu (Johns Hopkins University)

Friday, October 27

Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore College)

Friday, November 3

Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University)

Spring 2023

Friday, March 17

Melissa Schwartzberg (New York University)

Friday, March 31

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University)

Friday, April 21

Hélène Landemore (Yale University)

Fall 2022

Friday, October 14

Daniel Lee (UC Berkeley)

Friday, October 28

Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth University)

Friday, November 18

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University)

Spring 2022

Friday, February 18

Olufemi Taiwo (Georgetown University)

Friday, February 25

Marcus Board (Georgetown University)

Monday, March 14, 12:30pm

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)

Fall 2021

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)

Spring 2021

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)

Fall 2020 

Friday, September 25
Hugo Drochon (University of Nottingham) and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University), “Democracy, Parties, and Elites”

Friday, October 9
Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia) and Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College), “A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism”

Friday, October 23
Jill Frank (Cornell University), “Arithmetic Equality and Democratic Justice”

Friday, November 13
Greg Conti (Princeton University) and Will Selinger (University College London), “The History of Parliamentary Democracy”

Spring 2020

January 17, 2020 

Neil Roberts (Williams College):  "Creolizing Arendt, Creolizing Thinking" (with Marilyn Nissim-Sabat)

January 31, 2020

Nathan Pippenger (U.S. Naval Academy): "Anxieties of Membership: American Citizenship after Democratic Nationalism"

February 14, 2020

Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia): "Taking Responsibility, Winning Freedom: Toni Morrison’s Practice of Liberation"

March 6, 2020

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"

March 20, 2020 [cancelled due to COVID]

Sophie Smith (Oxford University)

March 27, 2020 [cancelled due to COVID]

Jill Frank (Cornell University)

April 17, 2020 [cancelled due to COVID]

Bernardo Zacka (MIT)

Fall 2019

October 4, 2019 

Lucia Rafanelli (George Washington University), "Toleration as Engagement" [ICC 662, 11am]

October 11, 2019

Samuel Chambers (Johns Hopkins University), "Marx’s Unorthodox Theory of Money" [ICC 450, *2pm*]

October 25, 2019

Diego von Vacano (Texas A&M University), "The People's Hero: Machiavelli and Populism"  [ICC 662, 11am]

November 1, 2019

Katrina Forrester (Harvard University), Book talk: In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy [*ICC 563*, 11am]

November 8, 2019

Alison McQueen (Stanford University), "Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies" [ICC 450, *2pm*]

November 22, 2019

Stefan Eich (Georgetown University), "The Theodicy of Growth: John Rawls, Political Economy, and Reasonable Faith" [ICC 662, 11am]

December 6, 2019

Elizabeth Edenberg (Georgetown University), "Rawlsian Reasonableness: A Moral Threshold of Respect" [ICC 662, *12:30pm*]

Fall 2018

September 13, 2018            

            Robinson Woodward-Burns, Howard University

            "Emerson on Self-Reliance, Mobbing, and Constitutional Reform"

September 20, 2018

            Kristen Collins, Georgetown University

            "Adam Smith on the Consequences of Inequality for Political Spectatorship"

October 4, 2018

            Melissa Lane, Princeton University

            "How the 'Thirty Tyrants' Got Their Name, and Why It Matters"

October 11, 2018

            Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University      

        "Hegelian Equality as Inseparable from Freedom"

October 25, 2018

            Joshua Cherniss, Georgetown University

            "Building 'Houses for Free Men': Adam Michnik and the Ethics of Democratic Resistance"

November 1, 2018

            Mark Fisher, Georgetown University

            "Thucydides on the Corruption of Language, or The Unbearable Lightness of Logos"

November 15, 2018

            Turkuler Isiksel, Columbia University

       "A Purposive Account of Moral Agency?"

November 29, 2018

            Michael Gillespie, Duke University

            "Erasmus and the Invention of Morality"

Spring 2019

January 17, 2019

            Gerald Mara, Georgetown University

February 14, 2019

            Daniela Cammack, Yale University

            "Deliberation in Ancient Greek Assemblies"

February 21, 2019

            Shannon Stimson, Georgetown University

            "Political Economy and Reform"

February 28, 2019

            Genevieve Rousselier, Duke University

   "Rousseau and the possibility of a modern republic"

March 14, 2019

            Juliet Hooker, Brown University

            "Grief and Black Politics: From Black Death to Black Life"

March 28, 2019

          Kyong-Min Son, University of Delaware

"Populism or Disintegrating Democracy? Finance Capitalism and the Volatile Politics of Citizenship"

April 11, 2019

            Arash Abizadeh, McGill University

            "Glory and the Evolution of Hobbes' Disagreement Theory of War: From Elements to Leviathan"

April 25, 2019

           Alan Kahan, Florida International University