POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP
The Political Theory Workshop provides an informal, interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of work in progress. The workshop features papers by Yale faculty members, visiting scholars, and graduate students in the fields of political philosophy, social theory, ethics, intellectual history, and related disciplines. Papers are distributed in advance and participants come prepared to discuss them in detail.
The Political Theory Workshop meets on selected Thursdays from 4:15-6:00 p.m. at ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Room A001. The seminar is followed by a reception.
Faculty Organizer: Ana Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Graduate Student Assistant Coordinator: David Lebow
Coodinator/contact for information: Pamela Greene, (203) 432-3052
Links to papers are provided when available.
| FALL 2008 |
(Click here for a printable PDF version of the schedule) |
| SEP 18 |
David Estlund, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
"Utopophobia" |
| SEP 25 |
John Dunn, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University (In Residence at Yale)
"Disambiguating Democracy "
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OCT 2
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Michael Blake, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington
"International Toleration and the Burdens of Judgment" |
OCT 23
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Gaye Ilhan, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Yale University
"Hegel's Philosophy of History: An Arendtian Critique" |
| OCT 30 |
Matthew Noah Smith, Department of Philosophy, Yale University
"Justificatory Independence: Interpersonal Mutuality and the Authority of Law" |
| NOV 6 |
William Connolly, Department of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University
"Capital Flows, Sovereign Practices and World Amplification Machines" |
| NOV 13 |
Karuna Mantena, Department of Political Science, Yale University
"Gandhi and Indian Pluralism: State and Sovereignty in Anti-colonial Political Thought" |
| NOV 20 |
Thomas McCarthy, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, and
Visiting Professor of Philosophy and EP&E, Yale University
"'Neoracism': Reflections on Racist Ideology after the Demise of 'Race'" |
| DEC 4 |
Anthony Pagden, Department of Political Science, UCLA
"'National empires/imperial nations': Sovereignty and Subjection since 1648" |
| DEC 11 |
Seyla Benhabib, Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University |
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