Fall 2024 Schedule

September 11: Chandran Kukathas (Singapore Management University), “The Idea of an Open Society” 

September 18: Aziz Rana (Boston College), “The Constitutional Bind”

September 25: Steven Smith (Yale University), “The Ethics of Statecraft”*

October 2: Fernanda Gallo (University of Cambridge), “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Ethical State”

October 9: Lucia Rafanelli (The George Washington University), “The Specter of Statelessness” 

October 23: Sandipto Dasgupta (The New School), “A Postcolonial Theory of Democracy and Parliamentarism” 

October 30: Graduate Student Job Talk: Loren Reinoso, “An Ascriptivist History of Political Representation”*

November 6: Genevieve Rousseliere (Duke University), “The Politics of Self-Destruction: Rousseau on Political Economy” 

November 13: Yuna Blajer de la Garza (Loyola University Chicago), “Being at Home: On Belonging and Freedom”

November 20: Jane Mansbridge (Harvard University), “Is Envy Inevitable”*

December 4: Gregory Collins (Yale University), “The Tocquevillian Idea of Civil Society in Early African-American Political Thought” *

December 11: Graduate Student Job Talk: Isabelle Laurenzi, “The Politics of Breaking Up”*

*No dinner following event