Archive
Spring 2019
MARCH 15
3–5 PM
Lisa Disch
University of Michigan, Political Science
Realism for Democrats
APRIL 5
3–5 PM
Carly Knight
NYU, Sociology
Creatures of the State: Metaphor and Personhood in Legitimating the American Corporation
APRIL 12
3–5 PM
Rachel Thomas
CNRS/CRESSON, Ecole Normale Superieure d’Architecture de Grenoble
On the Political Uses of Atmospheres: Towards a Critique of the Urban
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MAY 3
3–5 PM
Rob Reich
Stanford University, Political Science
Platform Power, Algorithmic Curation, and the Free Speech Idea
3–5 PM
Rob Reich
Stanford University, Political Science
Platform Power, Algorithmic Curation, and the Free Speech Idea
Fall 2019
SEP 11
4–6 PM
Joe Soss
University of Minnesota
Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket
OCT 4
3–5 PM
Lisa Wedeen
University of Chicago
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment and Mourning in Syria
NOV 22
3–5 PM
Fonna Forman
UCSD
Cross-Border Citizens
DEC 6
3–5 PM
Jennifer Rubenstein
University of Virginia
Urgency without Emergency: Emergency Politics and its Afterlives
Spring 2020
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FEB 21
3–5 PM
Jonathan Wolff
University of Oxford
Method in Philosophy and Public Policy: Applied versus Engaged Philosophy
MAR 6
3–5 PM
Joel Isaac
University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
Economists, Philosophers and the Revival of Social Contract Theory: 1955-1975
MAR 20
3–5 PM
Margaret Kohn
University of Toronto
[Cancelled due to Covid-19]
APR 7
3–5 PM
David Runciman
University of Cambridge
[Cancelled due to Covid-19]
APR 24
3–5 PM
Jan-Werner Muller
Princeton University
[Cancelled due to Covid-19]
Fall 2020
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NOV 19
1–3 PM
Joseph Heath
University of Toronto, Philosophy
The Machinery of Governmen
1–3 PM
Joseph Heath
University of Toronto, Philosophy
The Machinery of Governmen