Archived Calendars

Fall 2023

September 20: Kevin Duong, “The Revolution of the Poets”
September 27: Natasha Wheatley, ”What Sort of Thing is the State? Jellinek, Kelsen, and the Normative Turn in Legal Philosophy”
October 4: Anna Jurkevics, “Reclaiming Westphalia”
October 11: Ryan Hanley, “Pascal’s Political Philosophy”
October 25: Tae-Yeoun Keum, “Voltaire’s Socrates, the Enlightenment Plato, and the Dynamics of Canonization”
November 1: David Froomkin, “Structure and Democracy,” and Ariel Tang on Goethe (practice job talks)
November 2: Alex Zakaras, “Equal Freedom”
November 8: Daniela Cammack, “Who calls the crowd? Convening power in Ancient Greece, Rome, and today”
November 15: James Read, “ ‘We Divide into Majorities and Minorities’: Abraham Lincoln’s Defense of Majority Rule”

Spring 2023

January 24- Anne Phillips, ‘When Equality Needs No Justification.’
January 31- Turkuler Isiksel, ‘Voting in Authoritarian Elections.’
February 14- Yves Sintomer, ‘The Disappearance of Sortition in Politics.’
February 21- Bernardo Zacka, ‘The Political Agency of Architecture: Designing a More Hospitable Welfare State.’
February 28- Marco Goldoni, ’Introduction to The Material Constitution.’
March 7- Adom Getachew, ‘Projections of a Cosmopolitan Empire in the Age of the New Imperialism.’
March 28- Richard Bourke, ‘Political Thought and Its Discontents.’
April 4- Joshua Cherniss, ‘Neither Prisoners nor Prison Guards: Adam Michnik on the Ethos and Ethics of Democratic Resistance.’
April 11- Phillip Urfalino, ‘Collective Deliberation: Paths of Practical Reasoning.’
April 18- Deva Woodly, ‘Meditations on a Politics of Futurity: Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism at the Shoreline and on the Brink.’
April 20- Duncan Kelly, ‘Wartime for the Planet.’
April 25- Tejas Parasher, ‘M.N. Roy and the Problem of Parliamentary Democracy.’
May 9- Michael Sonenscher, Selections from “Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word.”

Graduate Student Conference 2023

Joy Wang, ‘Direct Democracy after the State Capitalist Turn: CLR James in Trinidad, 1958-62’
Da’Von Boyd, ‘Cosmic companion: prophetic lamentations in the SCLC’
David Froomkin, ‘The Site of Deliberation’
Owen Phillips, ‘Quentin Skinner and the Autonomy of Ideas’
Chris Chambers, ‘Who Are the Wild Insatiable Beasts?: Malthus on Taming the “Redundant Population” ’
Ariel Tang, ‘The Theater of Bildung: Goethe, Rousseau, and the Anthropological Foundation of Politics’

Fall 2022

September 20 - Ian Shapiro, Yale University, ‘Uncommon Sense: Introduction (“Renovating the Enlightenment”) and Chapter Six (“On Political Parties”); Discussant- Amanda Weiss
September 27- Hugo Drochon, University of Nottingham, ‘Polyarchy or Power Elite? C. Wright Mills, Robert Dahl and the Debate Surrounding Democratic Elites.’ Discussant- Ian Lutz
October 4 - Helene Landemore, Yale University, ‘Deliberative Democracy and Artificial Intelligence.’ Discussant- Owen Philips
October 11-Steven Smith, Yale University, ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Aesthetics of Judgment.’ Discussant- Ishaan Jajodia
October 25- Greg Conti, Princeton University, ‘Albert Venn Dicey and the Theory of the Constitutional Referendum.’ Discussant- Elliot Setzer
October 27- Practise Job Talk: Ariel Tang
November 1- Stefan Eich, Georgetown University, ‘Are We All Dead in the Long Run? Keynes and the Politics of Time.’ Discussant- Zainab Firdausi
November 8- Practise Job Talk: Joy Wang and Chris Chambers
November 15- Eileen Hunt, University of Notre Dame, ‘Artificial Intelligence before Frankenstein: Hobbes to Shelley.’ Discussant- Shilpa Thipperudraiah
November 29- Benjamin Storey, Furman University, ‘Town and Gown: On Liberal Education and Civic Life.’ Discussant- Leland Stange
December 6- Peter Steinberger, Reed College, ‘Habermas, Brandom and the Problem of Pragmatism in Politics.’ Discussant- Owen Phillips

Spring 2022

January 25 - Ewa Atanassow, Bard College, Berlin, ‘Popular Sovereignty on Trial: Tocqueville vs. Schmitt.’; Discussant – Vatsal Naresh.
February 1 - David Froomkin, Yale University, ‘Hobbesian Libertarianism; Discussant - Armando Perez-Gea.
February 15 - Owen Phillips and David Froomkin, Yale University, ‘Rawls and Historicism.’ Discussant - Amanda Weiss.
February 22 - Alexander Kirshner, Duke University, ‘Why Political Philosophy Requires Robust Arguments: The Case of Open Borders.’ Discussant - Armando Perez-Gea.
March 29 - Benjamin Straumann, New York University, ‘Roman Rights Talk: Subjective Rights in Cicero and Livy.’ Discussant - Ishaan Jajodia.
April 5 - Paul Franco, Bowdoin College, ‘The Great Politics of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Discussant - Owen Phillips.
April 19 - Laura Valentini, LMU Munich, ‘Normative Powers.’ Discussant - Da’Von Boyd.
April 26 - Celine Spector, University of Paris-Sorbonne, ‘Rousseau’s Case against Democracy.’ Discussant - Chris Chambers.
May 3 - Isaac Nakhimovsky, Yale University, ‘Holy Alliance: The Most Liberal of All Ideas.’ Discussant - Isabelle Laurenzi.

Fall 2021

September 21 - David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto, ”The Politics of Legal Space”. Discussant - Loren Reinoso .
September 28 - Chiara Cordelli and Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago, ”The Ethics of Global Capital Mobility”. Discussant - Armando Perez-Gea.
November 2 - Tae-Yeoun Keum, University of California, Santa Barbara, ”Hans Blumenberg and Jürgen Habermas on Political Myths”. Discussant - Darren Nah.
November 9 - Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, “Social Movements and Social Theory”. Discussant - Owen Phillips
November 16 - Lisa Ellis, University of Otago, “The Collective Implications of Discrete Decisions in Environmental Policy”. Discussant - Nate Hiatt.
November 30 - Arthur Ghins, Yale University, “The Meta-history of Liberalism.” Discussant - Shilpa Rudraiah.
December 7 - Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley, “Immigrant Legalization: A Dilemma between Justice and the Rule of Law” co-authored with Irene Bloemraad. Discussant - Amanda Weiss.

Spring 2021

February 2 - Gloria Origgi, EHESS, “Ground Zero: The Triangle of Humiliation”
February 16 - Sophie Marcotte-Chenard, Carleton University, “Beyond the Warring Gods: The Political Weber Reconsidered”
March 2 - Kevin Duong, University of Virginia, “Freud in the Tropics”
March 16 - Dan Schillinger, Yale University, “Euripides’ Critique of Luck and Courage in Trojan Women“
March 30 - Heather Wilford, Yale University, “Tocqueville on America, Democracy, and a New Form of Empire”
April 6 - Angélica Bernal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Pachamama’s Rights, Climate Crisis, & the Decolonial Cosmos”
April 20 - Clifton Granby, Yale University, “Racial Injustice and the Politics of Epistemic Deference”
May 4 - Robert Nichols, University of Minnesota, “Theft is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory”

Fall 2020

September 15 - Olufemi Taiwo, Georgetown University, “What’s Missing from Reparations Arguments?”
September 22 - Lea Ypi, London School of Economics, “On dominated dominators”
October 6 - Tongdong Bai, Fudan University, “Of the People, for the People, but not by the People–Confucian Meritocracy as a Criticism of Democracy”
October 20 - Juliet Hooker, Brown University, “Between Fact and Affect: Ida B. Wells and Harriet Jacobs on Loss”
November 3 - Anita Chari, University of Oregon, “Making the Present Intense: Art, Critique and the Dialectics of Survival”
November 17 - Sandipto Dasgupta, The New School, “The Predicament of Popular Sovereignty: Revolution and Consituent Power in the Postcolony”

Summer 2020

June 16 - Teresa Bejan, University of Oxford, “Rawls’ Teaching and the ‘Tradition’ of Political Philosophy”
July 7 - Amia Srinivasan, University of Oxford, “Sex as a Pedagogical Failure”

Spring 2020

January 14 - Sonali Chakravarti, Wesleyan University, ”Wanted: Angela Davis and a Jury of Her Peers”
January 28 - Michelle Schwarze, University of Wisconsin, “Adam Smith on Education as a Means to Political Judgment”
February 4 - Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University (NYU) ”Sheep May Safely Graze: On the Instrumental Justification of Democracy”
February 18 - Andrew Douglas, Morehouse College ”M.L. King’s Two Conceptions of the Political”
February 25 - Devin Stauffer, University of Texas at Austin, “Hobbes’s Political Philosophy I: Man and Morality” from Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy
March 3 - Manon Garcia, Harvard University, “Submission”
April 7 - Darren Nah, Yale University, ”What is Hegelian Idealism?”
April 14 - Isabelle Laurenzi, Yale University, Reproducing Gender Oppression: Submission and Desire in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex”& David Froomkin, Yale University, ”Democratic Accountability and the Legal Process”

Fall 2019

September 17 - Matthew Landauer, University of Chicago, ”Achieving Agreement in Plato’s Republic”
September 24 - James Lindley Wilson, University of Chicago, ”An Autonomy-Based Argument for Democracy”
October 1 - Carlo Accetti, City University of New York (CUNY), “Remedies” from his new book, Techno-populism. The New Logic of Democratic Politics.
October 15 - Ian Shapiro, Yale University, “The Idea of a Political Party”
October 22 - *Tanner Lectures, Wendy Brown, University of California-Berkeley, “Politics and Knowledge in Nihlistic Times” will take the place of Political Theory Workshop this week
November 5 - Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University, and James Russell Muirhead, Dartmouth College, “Conspiracy without the theory and the delegitimization of parties,” based on their recent book A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
November 19 - PJ Brandese, John Hopkins University, ”Environmental Racism: Disposable People & Temporal Hygiene”
December 4 - Shatema Threadcraft, Dartmouth College, “Redistribiting Narrative Capital: Lynching, Rape and Stories of Black Peoplehood”

Spring 2019

January 30 - Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Yale University “The Origins of the End of Ideology Debate: An Alternative History”
February 6 - Karuna Mantena, Yale University, ”Competing Theories of Nonviolent Politics”
February 27 - Shalini Satkunanandan, UC Davis, ”Beyond Belief: Passing by Others in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra”
March 6 - Daniel Lee, UC Berkeley, “Common Enemy of Mankind: Tyranny and Tyrannicide in the Legal Science of Jean Bodin”
April 3 - Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago, “Historicism in Victorian International Law”
April 17 - Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto, “Nietzsche, Politics, and Truth in an Age of Post-Truth”
April 24, Barbara Carnevali, EHESS Paris, “Appearances: on the aesthetic foundations of political anthropology”
May 1 - Brandon Terry, Harvard University, “Irony and the Politics of Pessimism in African American History and Philosophy”

Spring 2018

January 17 - Stephen Skowronek, Yale University, “The Policy State: An American Predicament”
January 24 - Yves Sintomer, University of Paris 8, “From Deliberative to Radical Democracy? Political Lotteries in the 20th Century”
January 31 - Noah Dauber, Colgate University, “Commonwealth and the Penal State: Hobbes’s Theory of the State”
February 7 - Katrina Forrester, Harvard University, “John Rawls and the Politics of Philosophy”
February 14 - David Froomkin and Ian Shapiro, “The New Authoritarianism in Public Choice”
February 21 - Genevieve Rousseliere, Duke University, “Rousseau on the Possibility of a Large Modern Republic”
February 28 - Yves Winter, McGill University, “Gendered Founding Myths: Machiavelli, Lucretia, and the Origins of the Roman Republic”
March 28 - Josiah Ober, Stanford University, “Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice”
April 4 - Robyn Marasco, Hunter College, “There’s a Fascist in the Family: Critical Theory and Anti-Authoritarianism”
April 11 - John Dunn, University of Cambridge, “The Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Democracy as a Form of Government”
April 18 - Cecile Laborde, University of Oxford, “On Liberalism’s Religion”
April 25 - Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashoka University

Fall 2017

September 6 - Steven Smith, Yale University, “Political Theory and the Dark Arts”
September 13 - Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School, “Judith Shklar’s Critique of Cold War Liberalism”
September 20 - Ayten Gundogdu, Barnard College, “The Nonhuman Condition: Arendt and the Phenomenology of Living Things”
September 27 - ”Comparative Republicanisms” Colloquium, with Banu Turnaoglu and Diego von Vacano
October 25 - Richard Bellamy, UCL, “A Justification and Defense of Inter-national over Supra-, Post-, and Trans-national Citizenship: The Example of EU Citizenship”
November 1 - Jade Schiff, Oberlin College, “The Politics of Vulnerability”
November 8 - Jean Cohen, Columbia University, “Civil Society, Populism, and Religion”
November 15 - Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College, “Spectacles of Sovereignty in Digital Time: ISIS Executions, Visual Rhetoric, and Sovereign Power”
November 29 - Melvin Rogers, Brown University, “Being a Slave of the Community: Democratic-Republicanism and Racialized Domination”

Spring 2017

January 18 - Andy Sabl, Yale University, “Actually Existing Liberalism”
January 25 - Tobin Craig, James Madison College, “Protecting Democracy from Science, and Science from Democracy: A Political Defense of the Science/Policy Boundary”
February 1 - Lida Maxwell, Trinity College, “Truth Against War: Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, and the Gendered Politics of Truth-Telling”
February 8 - Michelle Clarke, Dartmouth College, “Machiavelli’s Virtuous Princes”
February 15 - David Luban, Georgetown University, “Arendt Before Jerusalem: The Case of the Missing Morality”
February 22 - Giulia Oskian, Yale University, “A Self Moderating Democracy? Political Psychology and Constitutional Theory in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America”
March 1 - Eva Piirimae, University of Tartu, “Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Herder’s Thought”
March 8 - Alberto Ghibellini, MIT, “Natural Right and Historical Consciousness in Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger’s Correspondence”
March 29 - Andrew Poe, Amherst College, “Sources of Possession”
April 5 - David Williams, DePaul University, “Forestalling ‘the ever-widening inequality of fortunes’: Jean- Jacques Rousseau on Economic Inequality and the General Will”
April 12 - Susan McWilliams, Pomona College, “The Foundations of the Founding”
April 19 - Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, “What Constitutes a Nation? Hamilton and Jefferson on the Recognition of Citizen Genêt”
April 26 - Turkuler Isiksel, Columbia University, “Wealth and the Commonwealth: The Governance Paradigm in Eighteenth Century Political Thought”

Fall 2016

September 14, 2016
Mary Keys, Notre Dame University, “The Power and Peril of Names: Rhetoric, Politics, and Philosophy in Augustine’s City of God”
September 28, 2016
Laurence Cooper, Carleton College, “Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau’s Final Insight
October 26, 2016
John Roemer, Yale University, “Socialism Revised”
November 2, 2016
Ioannis Evrigenis, Tufts University, “Context and Canon: The Case of Hobbes”
November 3, 2016
Helene Landemore, Yale University, “Deliberation, Representation, and the Principles of Post-Representative Democracy”
November 9, 2016
Adam Sandel, Harvard University, “Violence: Beyond Body Counts”
November 16, 2016
Jacob Levy, McGill University, “Bees and Brobdingnagians: Satire and Liberal Social Theory”
November 30, 2016
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University, “Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar’s Concept”
December 7, 2016
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University, “Subjects of Reason: Goods, Markets and Imaginaries of the Global Future

Spring 2016

January 27, 2016
Karuna Mantena, Yale University: “Means, Ends, and the Dilemmas of Action”
February 3, 2016
Meirav Jones, New York University/Yale University: “Jewish Sovereignty: A Westphalian Problem?”
February 10, 2016
Samuel DeCanio, Yale University: “Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice”
February 17, 2016
Joshua Cohen, Apple University/UC Berkeley: “Reflections on Labor Standards”
March 2, 2016
Michael Gillespie, Duke University: TBA
March 9, 2016
Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University: “Civil Juries and Democratic Legitimacy”
March 30 - April 1, 2016
Whitney Humanities Center - Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Judith Butler: “Interpreting Non-Violence”
- Wed, 5 PM: “Why Preserve the Life of the Other?”
- Thurs, 5 PM: “Legal Violence: An Ethical and Political Critique”
- Fri, 10:30 AM: Roundtable Discussion
April 6, 2016
Aaron Garrett, Boston University: “What is Political Knowledge? Hobbes, Spinoza, and Others”
April 13, 2016
Victoria Kahn, UC Berkeley: “Political Theology, the Jewish Question, and the Work of Metaphor”
April 20, 2016
Jill Frank, Cornell University: “A Life Without Poetry: Rereading Republic 2-5.”
April 27, 2016
Bolek Kabala, Yale University: “Hobbes, The New Secular Clerisy, and Spinoza’s Concern”

Fall 2015

September 9, 2015
Steven Smith, Yale University: “Lincoln and the Problem of ‘Towering Genius’”
September 10, 2015
Special Event: Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Whitney Humanities Center).
Please visit http://ycri.yale.edu/news/empire-and-revolution-political-life-edmund-burke for detailed information
September 11-12, 2015
Special Event: Revolution, Dissent, and Democracy: The Political Thought of Richard Price (Whitney Humanities Center).
Please visit http://ycri.yale.edu/news/revolution-dissent-and-democracy-political-thought-richard-price for detailed information
September 16, 2015
Melvin L. Rogers, UCLA: “The Demandingness of Freedom: Walker and Racial Domination”
September 23, 2015
George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College: “Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage, and Public Space”
September 30, 2015
Graduate Student Presentations
October 1-3, 2015
Special Event: 23rd Annual Critical Theory Roundtable (Whitney Humanities Center & Sterling Memorial Library).
Please visit https://criticaltheoryroundtable2015.wordpress.com/%20 for detailed information
October 1, 2015
Special Event: European Studies Council workshop with Alessandro Ferrara: “Constitutional Narratives and the Future of Europe” (1:30 PM, Luce Hall 203).
October 7, 2015
Aziz Rana, Cornell University: “The Lincolnian Constitution and Its Discontents”
October 14, 2015
Graduate Student Presentations
October 28, 2015
Ran Halévi, EHESS: “Tocqueville: the Frontier between Aristocracy and Democracy”
November 4, 2015
Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge: “TBA”
November 11, 2015
Elizabeth F. Cohen, Syracuse University: “The Political Economy of Time”
November 18, 2015
Ian Shapiro, Yale University: “Against Impartiality”
December 2, 2015
Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University: “Between War and Peace: Diversity and a Culture of Debate”
December 9, 2015
Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania: “Disability, Freedom, and the Will”

Spring 2015

January 14, 2015
Robert George (Princeton University): “Religious Liberty and the Human Good”
January 21, 2015
Robert Post (Yale University): “Representative Democracy and the Constitution”
January 28, 2015
Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University): “Racism’s Political Alterity”
February 4, 2015
Susan Stokes & Hari Ramesh (Yale University): “Elections, Street Protests, and Democratic Accountability”
February 11, 2015
Roundtable Discussion: “Qui est Charlie?: Religion, Speech, and Integration in Contemporary Europe”
February 18 - 20, 2015
Whitney Humanities Center Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Dipesh Chakrabarty: “The Human Condition in the Anthropocene”
- Wed, 5pm: “Climate Change as Epochal Consciousness”
- Thurs, 5pm: “Decentering the Human? Gaia”
- Fri, 10:30am: Roundtable discussion
February 25, 2015
Dieter Grimm (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin): “The Democratic Costs of Constitutionalization: the European Case”
March 4, 2015
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia): “Ida B. Well and ‘Color Line Justice’: Rethinking Reparations in Feminist Terms”
March 25, 2015
Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University): “Perpetual Peace and Political Theory in the Enlightenment”
April 1, 2015
Anna Jurkevics (Yale University): “The Importance of Place”
April 8, 2015
Desmond Jagmohan (Princeton University): “Cultivating Civic Capacity Under Domination: Rethinking Booker T. Washington and Uplift Politics in the Era of Jim Crow”
April 15, 2015
Tamsin Shaw (New York University): “Can we assess the political consequences of secularization?”
April 22, 2015
Cristina Beltran (New York University): “Latino Conservatives: Thoughts on Race, Democracy, and the Right”
April 23, 2015
*LECTURE, THURS 4pm (LUCE HALL)*
Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales ): “The Two Types of Jihadists: Europe’s Disaffected Youth versus the Middle Class Young Jihadists”
April 28, 2015
* TUESDAY 4-6pm, LUCE HALL RM 203*
Andreas Hess (University College Dublin) & Samantha Ashenden (Birkbeck College, London): “Totalitarianism and Justice: Hannah Arendt and Judith N. Shklar’s Political Reflections in Historical and Theoretical Perspective”
April 29, 2015
Umur Basdas (Yale University): “Adorno’s Project of Natural-History”

Fall 2014

September 10, 2014
Susan Buck-Morss (CUNY Graduate Center): “Cosmopolitan Diaspora and the Present State of Theory”
September 17, 2014
Graduate Student Presentations
September 24, 2014
Diego von Vacano (Texas A&M University): “The Princely Republican: Bolivar’s Machiavellian Approach to Race”
October 1, 2014 (4.30pm) (note the slightly later start time)
Joseph Fischel (Yale University): “Other Sex Scandals: Frat Boys, Queer Teens, and the Trouble with Sexual Autonomy”
October 8, 2014
Nancy Fraser (The New School): “Can society be commodities all the way down? Post-Polanyian reflections on capitalist crisis”
October 15, 2014
Graduate Student Presentations
October 29, 2014
Banu Bargu (The New School): “Sovereignty as Erasure: Rethinking Enforced Disappearances”
November 5, 2014
Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago): “The Turn to Affect and the Problem of Judgment”
November 12, 2014
Andrew March (Yale University): “The Problem of Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought”
November 19, 2014
Max Pensky (Binghamton University): “Amnesty and Sovereignty”
December 3, 2014
Jack Knight (Duke University): “Legal Realism and Institutional Design”
December 5, 2014
(FRI) Conference: Justification Beyond the State, Location: President’s Room, Woolsey Hall

Spring 2014

January 15, 2014
Paul Franks (Yale University): “Who is King in Jeshurun? Autonomy, Civil Rights, and Non-State Law in the German-Jewish Experience”
January 22, 2014
Steven Skultety (University of Mississippi): “Aristotle and Democracy”
January 29, 2014
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London): “Thomas Hobbes and the social control of unsociability”
February 5, 2014
Jeanne Morefield (Whitman College): “Rhetorics of Imperial Deflection: Jan Smuts and International Hierarchy”
February 12, 2014
Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University): “Defending the One Percent”
February 26, 2014
Seyla Benhabib (Yale University): “Democratic Sovereignty and Transnational Law: On Legal Utopianism and Democratic Skepticism”
March 5, 2014
John Tomasi (Brown University): “Free Market Fairness”
March 26, 2014
Isabelle Ferreras (Belgian National Science Foundation (F.N.R.S., Brussels), University of Louvain): “Toward a Political Theory of the Firm: From Political Bicameralism to Economic Bicameralism”
April 9, 2014
Ryan Balot (University of Toronto): “Is Machiavelli Entitled to Give Advice?”

Fall 2013

September 11, 2013
Alison McQueen (Stanford University): “Political Realism and Moral Corruption”
September 20, 2013 (Friday)
Jon Elster (Columbia University): “Excessive Ambitions of Normative Political Theory”
September 25, 2013
Graduate Student Presentations
October 2, 2013
Graduate Student Presentations
October 9, 2013
Aurelian Craiutu (Indiana University): “The Elusive Center: Moderation in the Writings of the Coppet Group (Madame de Staël, Jacques Necker, and Benjamin Constant)”
October 16, 2013
Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University): “Global Governance and Human Rights”
October 30, 2013
David Ciepley (University of Denver): “Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation”
November 6, 2013
Joshua Cherniss (Harvard University): “The Courage of our Doubts and Uncertainties: Isaiah Berlin on the Ethics of Moderation and the Ethos of Liberalism”
November 13, 2013
Discussion Session
November 18, 2013 (Monday)
Special Event: ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem - 50 years later’; Film Screening of Hannah Arendt (2pm, Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center) followed by symposium with panelists Jeffrey Alexander, Anthony Kronman, Brigitte Peucker, Steven Smith, Adam Tooze, and Jay Winter, with Seyla Benhabib, moderator (4pm, Room 208, WHC)
November 20, 2013
Special Event: ‘Revisiting Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Conversation with Partha Chatterjee’, co-sponsored by the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Luce Auditorium, 4:15pm
December 4, 2013
David Grewal (Yale University): “The Commercial Oeconomy”
December 12, 2013 (Thursday)
Rainer Forst (Goethe University, Frankfurt): “Transnational Justice and Democracy”

Spring 2013

January 23, 2013
Reva Siegel (Yale Law School): The Law (and Politics) of Disparate Impact
January 30, 2013
Andrew Sabl (UCLA): Hume’s Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England
February 6, 2013
Ian Shapiro (Yale University): Non-domination, impartiality, and the bedrock of justice
February 13, 2013
Catherine Zuckert (University of Notre Dame): Machiavelli’s New Republic
February 20, 2013
Tamara Metz (Reed College): The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage
February 27, 2013
Patchen Markell (University of Chicago): The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt
March 1-2, 2013
CSPT Annual Conference: Political Thought and Historical Imagination (Luce Auditorium)
March 6, 2013
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley): Why Did Thomas Hobbes Translate Thucydides?
April 10, 2013
Arash Abizadeh (McGill University): Sovereign Jurisdiction, Territorial Rights, and Membership in Hobbes
April 17, 2013
Paul Franks (Yale University): Is Judaism Religion or Law? Isaac Breuer and the Independent Orthodox Response to Spinoza and Kant in the Age of Emancipation
April 24, 2013
Ryan Hanley (Marquette University): Adam Smith on What the West Can Learn from China
May 1, 2013
George Kateb (Princeton University): Lincoln’s Political Thought

Fall 2012

Sep 19, 2012
Rob Reich (Stanford University), “On Philanthropy and Democracy”
Sep 27, 2012 [Please note: this workshop will be held on a Thursday]
Jay Bernstein (New School), “Democratic Bodies: The Abolition of Torture and the Uprising of the Rule of Law”
Oct 3, 2012
Pablo Kalmanovitz (Yale University), “Just war, regular war, and adjudication of jus ad bellum”
Oct 10, 2012
Job Markt Presentations
Oct 17, 2012
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley), “The Significance of Territorial Presence and the Rights of Immigrants”
Oct 31, 2012
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley), “Why Did Thomas Hobbes Translate Thucydides?” [rescheduled for Spring 2013]
Nov 7, 2012
Job Market Presentation
Nov 14, 2012
Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU), “Ethnographic Humanism and the Critique of Transparency: Tristes Tropiques, UNESCO, Rousseau, Derrida” [jointly with the Modern European Colloquium]
Nov 28, 2012
Panel discussion: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere [jointly with the Modern European Colloquium]
Dec 5, 2012
Christopher J. Lebron (Yale University), “From A Human Point of View: The Substance of Egalitarianism”

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