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.