Political Theory Workshop

The Political Theory Workshop brings together graduate students and faculty with an interest in the history of social and political thought, normative social and political theory, and the normative and theoretical dimensions of public policy and public law. Our meetings center around the discussion of work in progress by UW graduate students and faculty, as well as by invited guests from around the country. They include a brief presentation by the author and a prepared response by an advanced graduate student, followed by a general discussion. In most cases papers are distributed in advance of the meetings. We welcome participants from a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. Richard Avramenko is the Faculty Director and Robert Gingerich the Graduate Student Coordinator

2011-2012 Schedule and Papers

Friday, September 16, 2011

John Zumbrunnen, University of Wisconsin

Title: "Whose Demos? Which Democracy? Mouffe, Ranciere, and the People"
Discussant: Danielle Delaney
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 4:10-5:40

Friday, October 7, 2011

Andrew March, Yale University

Title: "What are Religious Reasons?"
Discussant: Se-Hyoung Yi
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Friday, October 21, 2011

Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin

Title: "The Grammar of Indifference: Tocqueville and the Language of Democracy"
Discussant: Stefani Veselinovic
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Friday, November 4, 2011

John McCormick, University of Chicago

Title: "Subdue the Senate: Machiavelli's 'Way of Freedom' or Path to Tyranny?"
Discussant: Danielle Delaney
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Friday, November 18, 2011

Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University

Title: "Antigone vs. Oedipus? Feminist Theory and the Turn to Antigone"
Discussant: Kristen Bricker
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Friday, December 9, 2011

Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania

Title: "The American Experiment: A 21st Century Assessment"
Discussant: Jennifer Williams
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Friday, February 3, 2012

Daniel Kapust, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: "That Glib and Oily Art: Modes of Flattery in Political Theory"
Discussant: Rebecca Lemoine
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:30pm

Friday, February 17, 2012

James Ceaser, University of Virgina

Title: " The Origins and Character of American Exceptionalism"
Discussant: Ethan Alexander-Davey
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Friday, March 2, 2012

Nora Hanagan, American Democracy Forum, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: "Democratizing Responsibility"
Discussant: TBA
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:30pm

Friday, March 16, 2012

Eric MacGilvray, Ohio State University

Co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Political Theory Association
Title: "TBA"
Discussant: TBA
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:30-5:00

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

George Nash

Sponsored by the Undergraduate Political Theory Association and ISI
Lecture: TBA
Location and Time: TBA

Friday April 27, 2012

Mark T. Mitchell, Patrick Henry College

Sponsored by the Undergraduate Political Theory Association
Discussion workshop: TBA
Location and Time: Alexander Mickeljohn House, 1:00-3:00

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2010-2011 Schedule and Papers

October 1, 2010

Jill Frank, University of South Carolina

Title: The Truth of Poetry in Plato's Republic
Discussant: Kristen Bricker
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15

November 5, 2010

Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan

Title: Freedom, Form and Formlessness: Euripides' Bacchae and Imitation in the Republic
Discussant: Rebecca Lemoine
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15

November 12, 2010

David Weimer, University of Wisconsin

Title: Addressing the Shortage of Kidneys for Transplantation: Purchase and Allocation through Chain Auctions
Discussant: Stefani Veselinovic
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15

February 18, 2011

Rob Gingerich, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: 'But Unless the Soul Be Purged': Lucretius, Ateleology, and the End of History
Discussant: Alex Dressler
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

February 25, 2011

Rebecca Lemoine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Government of, by, and for the People: Foreigners and Democracy in Plato's Protagoras
Discussant: John Zumbrunnen
Location and Time: 211 North Hall, 12:00-1:15

March 4, 2011

Ryan Hanley, Marquette University

Title: The Political Economy of Freedom: Revisiting Rousseau's Third Discourse
Co-Discussants: Jingcai Ying and Xin Fan
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15

March 11, 2011

Stefani Veselinovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: "Self Interest Properly Understood" as a Regulatory Mechanism on Commerce
Discussant: Helen Kinsella
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45 - 5:15

March 25, 2011

Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Birthright Democracy: Nationalism and the Origins of Self-Government in England
Discussant: Richard Avramenko
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 4:00-5:15

April 8, 2011

Richard Boyd, Georgetown University

Title: Justice, Beneficence, and Boundaries: Rousseau and the Paradox of Generality

Co-Discussants: Greg Koutnik and Se-Hyoung Yi
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15

May 6, 2011

Tracy Strong, University of California, San Diego

Title: Martin Heidegger and the Space of Politics
Discussant: Rob Gingerich
Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15

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