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Speakers in the Colloquium present works in progress drawn from their current research.

We post titles and papers close to the presentation date.

Fall 2006 Seminars
Sept-Dec 2006

Ted Parson
Professor of Law & Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michig
Colloquium Reading
Feasible improvements: strategic behavior and technological uncertainty in environmental regulation.

Pre-Seminar Readings
Protecting the ozone layer: science and strategy. And: Issues in Science and Technology

Sept-Dec 2006

Rae Langton  
Profes

  
Massachusetts Institute of T
Colloquium Reading 
Speaker's Freedom and Maker's Knowledge: 

The Case of Pornography  

Pre-Seminar Readings  
PProjection and Objectification and 

Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts 

Sept-Dec 2006

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Professor & Distinguished Legal Scholar
(Sociology,

Colloquium Reading 

Beyond Abyssal Thinking: 

From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledge

Pre-Seminar Readings

A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience

Participants may also be interested in the following:

The World Social Forum: A User's Manual 


Spring 2007 Seminars
Jan-Apr 2007

Kim Scheppele
Professor

(Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs& Colloquium Reading

The International State of Emergency: Challenges to Constitutionalism after September 11

Pre-Seminar Readings

A Realpolitik Defense of Social Rights

Jan-Apr 2007
Philip Pettit
Professor
(Politics and Human Valu
Colloquium Reading

The What and the How of Democratic Control


Pre-Seminar Readings

Depoliticizing Democracy

 

Jan-Apr 2007

Michael Blake
Associate Professor
(PhilRm 15
Colloquium Reading
Political Liberalism Abroad


Pre-Seminar Readings
Distributive Justice, State Coercion and Autonomy


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