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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 2009 Seminars
September 18, 2009                           Fraser Building (Law)    Room 158             at  2:30 pm

Duncan Ivison

Professor and Head of School,
Philosophy and Historical Inquiry,
University of Sydney

Colloquium Reading

What is a Practice of Liberty?

Pre-Seminar Readings

Rights: Introduction and Chapter 1

Pre-seminar: Friday, September 11

SSM Building, Room A318 -  12:30 - 2:00 pm

 

October 30, 2009                                Fraser Building (Law)    Room 152           at  2:30 pm

Katherine Gibson

Professor, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy
University of Western Sydney

Colloquium Reading

Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for 'Other Worlds'

Pre-Seminar Readings

A Politics of Economic Possibility

Surplus Possibilities: Postdevelopment and Community Economics

Pre-seminar: Friday, October 23

Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm

 
November 27, 2009                            Fraser Building (Law)    Room 152                at  2:30 pm

Charles W. Mills

John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy Northwestern University

Colloquium Reading

Deracializing Rawls

Pre-Seminar Reading

"Radical Liberalism"

Pre-seminar: Friday, November 20

Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm

 
Spring 2010 Seminars
January 29, 2010                              Fraser Building (Law)     Room 152              at  2:30 pm

Bonnie Honig

Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University,
Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Colloquium Reading

Antigone's Two Laws:

Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism

Pre-Seminar Readings

"Ismene’s Forced Choice:

Sacrifice and Sorority in Sophocles’ Antigone"


"Antigone's Laments, Creon's Grief:

Mourning, Membership,

and the Politics of Exception"

Pre-seminar: Friday, January 22

Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm

February 26, 2010                               Fraser Building (Law)    Room 152               at  2:30 pm

Tom Christiano

Professor of Philosophy and Law
University of Arizona

Colloquium Reading

"Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy"

Pre-Seminar Reading

"Democratic Legitimacy and

International Institutions"

 

Pre-seminar:  Wednesday, February 24

Fraser Building, Room 209, 12:30 to 1:30 pm

March 26, 2010 CANCELLED                  Fraser Building (Law)    Room 152                at  2:30 pm

Lani Guinier

Bennett Boskey Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

and

Gerald Torres

Bryant Smith Chair in Law
University of Texas at Austin

Colloquium Reading

"Changing the Wind: Towards a Jurisprudence of Social Movements"

 

Pre-Seminar Reading

"Demosprudence Through Dissent"

 

Pre-seminar: CANCELLED Friday, March 19

Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm

Lani Guinier Torres Gerald

 


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