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