Political Theory Workshop Archive

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Friday, September 12, 2014
Organizational meeting. To be held in Ogg Room from 12:00-1:15 PM.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

       Constitution Day Events

• Title: “Has the American Constitution Failed?” A lecture by Howard Schweber (UW Madison).
• Location and Time: Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 10:00-11:00 AM
• Title: “The Constitution and You: How the U.S.Constitution is Relevant in our Everyday  Lives.” A lecture by Cecelia Klingele (UW Madison).
• Location and Time: 3250 Law Building, 12:00-1:00 PM

Friday, September 19, 2014
Gary Jacobsohn, UT Austin (Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy)

• “Takeover: Religion, Republicanism, and Emergency Power.” A lecture and panel discussion featuring Heinz Klug (UW-Madison), Charles Cohen (UW-Madison), and Howard Schweber (UW Madison).
• Location: Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 4:00 PM

Friday, October 3, 2014
Emily Nacol, Vanderbilt University (Co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Political Theory Association)

• Title: “The True and Proper Relief of the Poor?”: Poverty, Labor, and Political Agency in Locke’s Political Thought
• Discussant: Megan Rowley, UW-Madison
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, October 10, 2015
Daniel Kapust, UW Madison, and Howard Schweber, UW Madison

• Title: Workshop on Pedagogy and Curriculum
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Monday, October 13, 2014
Siegfried van Duffel, Nazarbayev University

• Title: “The Concept of Rights”
• Location and Time: L155 Education, 5:00-6:00 PM

Thursday, October 16-Saturday, October 18, 2014
Association for Political Theory Conference

• For details on the conference, please see http://www.apt-us.org/2014-conference.

Friday, October 24, 2014
Dennis Rasmussen, Tufts University (Co-sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin Initiative)

• Title: “The Pragmatic Enlightenment of David Hume and Adam Smith”
• Location and Time: 3280D Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 1:30-2:45 PM

Friday, November 7, 2014
Jack Balkin, Yale Law School, “Is it Time to Rewrite the Constitution?” (Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy)

• Location and Time: Law School Room 2260, 4:00 PM

Friday, November 14, 2014
Daniel Kapust, UW Madison

• Title: Workshop: From Paper to Article
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, November 21, 2014
Dean Hammer, Franklin and Marshall College

• Title: “Were the People Sovereign in the Roman Republic?”
• Discussant: Katie Robiadek
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, December 5, 2014
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago

• Title: “Democracy and the Problem of Judgment“
• Discussant: Katelyn Jones
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 11:45-1:15 PM

Friday, January 30, 2015
Katelyn Jones, UW Madison (Co-sponsored by the International Relations Colloquium)

• Title:  “Personalizing IO Bureaucracies: Using Bourdieu’s Concept of Habitus to Understand
  Policymaking in IOs”
• Discussant: Lisa Martin
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 11:50 AM -1:15 PM

Friday, February 6, 2015: No Workshop

Friday, February 13, 2015 
Daniel Kapust, UW Madison; Helen Kinsella, UW Madison

• Title: Workshop: CVs, Websites, and Conferences: Cultivating a Professional Presence
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, February 20, 2015
Thomas Bunting, UW Madison

• Title: Who Plays? The Politics of Equality and Exclusion in Baseball
• Discussant: Rick Avramenko
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, February 27, 2015
Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago (Co-sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin Initiative)

• Title: “Smith’s Ironic Global History as Radical Critique“
• Discussant: Kira Mochal
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, March 6, 2015
Steven Smith, Yale University (Co-sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin Initiative): POSTPONED TO FALL 2015

• Title: “Lincoln’s Enlightenment“
• Discussant: Brianne Walsh
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, March 13, 2015
Josh Bandoch, UW-Madison

• Title: “Montesquieu’s Particularism: The Case of Holland”
• Discussant: Michael Promisel
• Location and Time: L173 Education, 12:00-1:15 PM

Tuesday, March 24 and Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Kristen Renwick Monroe, UC Irvine (Co-sponsored by the IR Colloquium )

• Title: Gender Equity in Academia
• Location and Time: Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 12:00-1:00 PM, Tuesday, March 24
• Title: A Darkling Plain: Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War
• Location and Time: Psychology Building Room 238, Wednesday, March 25

Friday, April 10, and Saturday, April 11, 2015 (All events to be held in Room 345 of the Education Building)
Ancient Republics Workshop, a Mellon Workshop with support from the Center for Research in the Humanities, the Anonymous Fund, the Political Theory Workshop, the Department of Political Science, and The Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

• Participants: Phillip Horky (Durham University), Monte Johnson (UC San Diego), Elizabeth Asmis (University of Chicago), Paula Gottlieb (UW Madison), Grant Nelsestuen (UW Madison), Jed Atkins (Duke University), Adrienne Hagen (UW Madison), Nandini Pandey (UW Madison), Marc Kleijwegt (UW Madison), Daniel Kapust (UW Madison), Katherine Robiadek (UW Madison), Brianne Walsh (UW Madison), Michelle Clarke (Dartmouth)

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Friday, April 10th

Opening Remarks (2:30pm): Sue Zaeske, Associate Dean for Advancement, Arts and Humanities, University of Wisconsin – Madison Panel 1: Greek and Italian Philosophical Contexts (3-5:15pm)

Paper 1: “A Pythagorean Republic? On Law and Justice attributed to Archytas of Tarentum,” Phillip Horky, Durham University, and Monte Ransome Johnson, University of California – San Diego

Paper 2: “A Sicilian Perspective on Commonwealth and the World Community,” Adrienne Hagen, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Paper 3: “Cicero on Republican Virtue and the Competition for Power,” Elizabeth Asmis, University of Chicago

Discussant: Paula Gottlieb, University of Wisconsin – Madison

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Saturday, April 11th

Coffee and Pastries (8:30am) Panel 2: Roman Republicanisms (9-11:15am)

Paper 1: “The Role of Custom in ‘Roman’ Republicanism,” Grant Nelsestuen, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Paper 2: “Liberty and Empire in Roman Republican Thought,” Jed Atkins, Duke University

Paper 3: “Res est publica Caesar: Ovid as Political Theorist?,” Nandini Pandey, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Discussant: Marc Kleijwegt, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Lunch Break (11:30am-1pm) Panel 3: Receptions of Roman Political Thought (1-3:15pm)

Paper 1: “Hobbes, Lucretius, and the Political Psychology of Fear,” Dan Kapust, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Paper 2: “Machiavelli and the Imagined Rome of Italian Humanism,” Michelle Clarke, Dartmouth University

Paper 3: “Cicero, Emotion in Oratory, and Contemporary Democratic Theory,” Katie Robiadek, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Discussant: Bri Walsh, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Closing Remarks (3:30pm)

Friday, April 24, 2015
Benjamin Franklin Initiative Spring Colloquium: “The Scottish Enlightenment in Context.”

• David Lieberman (Law and History, UC-Berkeley), “Declaring Rights: Bentham and the Rights of Man,” and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (History, University of Chicago), “Malthus and the Enlightenment”
• Location and Time: 11:45-2:00, Room AB/ON Wisconsin Room in the Red Gym
• John Zumbrunnen (UW Madison), “Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Humility”
• Discussant: Katie Robiadek
• Location and Time: 4:00-5:30, Memorial Union

Friday, May 1, 2015
Tiago Losso, UW-Madison

• Title: “Conflict among Republicans”
• Discussant: Daniel Kapust
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, May 8, 2015
Mark Warren, University of British Columbia

• Title: “A Problem-­Based Approach to Democratic Systems”
• Discussant: Thomas Bunting
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

2013-2014 Schedule and Papers

Friday, September 6, 2013
Kennan Ferguson, UW-Milwaukee

• Title: “Genre and Geniture: The Recipe, the Cookbook, and the Writing of Democracy.” 
• Discussant: Katie Robiadek, UW-Madison
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, October 4, 2013
Rebecca Lemoine, UW-Madison

• Practice Job Talk: “Reforming the Armed Camp: The Irrationality of Xenophobia in Plato’s Laws“
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, October 25, 2013
Sara Monoson, Northwestern University

• Title: “Socrates in Combat“
• Discussant: Rebecca Lemoine, UW-Madison
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, November 1, 2013
Se-Hyoung Yi, UW-Madison

• Practice Job Talk: “Deliberative Democracy and ‘Suffering Together’: The Eumenides and the Duality of Immigrants”
• Location and Time: 211 North Hall, 1:00-2:15

Friday, November 8, 2013
Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University (Co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Political Theory Association)

• Title: Tocqueville in Arabia
• Discussant: TBA
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, November 22, 2013
Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia

• Title:”Fugitives’ Democracy: The Political Worlds of Toni Morrison’s Essays and Fiction.”
• Discussant: Danielle Delaney
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, December 6, 2013
Chris McClure, Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University (Co-sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin Initiative)

• Title:”Learning from Franklin’s Mistakes: Self-Interest Rightly Understood in the Autobiography“
• Location and Time: L155 Education, 1:30-2:45

Friday, January 31, 2014
Faculty Roundtable on Prospectus Writing and Conference Presentations.

Friday, February 7, 2014
Danielle Delaney, UW-Madison

• Title: “When Is It Real?: Social Movements, Discourse, and Contentious Politics.”
• Discussant: Jimmy Casas Klausen
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, February 14, 2014
Brianne Walsh, UW-Madison

• Title: “Building Community through Taste: On Tocqueville and Henry James.”
• Discussant: Rick Avramenko
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, February 21, 2014
Adam Gomez, UW-Madison

• Title: “Grateful Animals: Obligation and the Virtue of Gratitude“
• Discussant: Michelle Schwarze
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, February 28, 2014
Sharon Krause, Brown University

• Title: “Plural Freedom“
• Discussant: Rob Gingerich
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, March 7, 2014
Thomas Bunting, UW-Madison

• Title: “The Democratic Weapon of Freedom: Tocqueville’s Newspapers and Everyday
  Political Discourse“
• Discussant: Rick Avramenko
• Location and Time: 6116 Social Science, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, March 14, 2014
Howard Schweber, UW-Madison

• Title: “From Deliberation to Responsible Government, Part I: the Implications of Classical Theories of Representation“
• Discussant: Jennifer Williams
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Thursday, March 27, 2014
Rex Stem, UC Davis (Funded by the University Lectures Committee, and co-sponsored with the Classics Department)

• Title: “The Republican Imperialism of Julius Caesar”
• Location and Time: 159 Education, 3:30 PM

Friday, March 28, 2014
Michelle Schwarze, UW-Madison

• Title: “Kantian Moral Psychology: Humiliation and the Development of Respect for the Moral Law“
• Discussant: Thomas Bunting
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Monday, April 7, 2014
James Kloppenberg, Harvard University (Co-sponsored with History Department and American Democracy Forum)

• Title: “Tragic Irony: The Rise of Democracy in European and American Thought”
• Location and Time: 5:30-7:00 PM, The Pyle Center

Friday, April 11, 2014
Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University

2012-2013 Schedule and Papers

Friday, September 7, 2012
Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University

• Title: “Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy”
• Discussant: Katelyn Jones

• Location and Time: 12:00-1:15 PM; L173, Education

Friday, September 21, 2012
Robert Gingerich, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Practice Job Talk: “Neighborhood and Worldhood: Heidegger and Human Scale.”
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 1:00-2:15 PM

Friday, October 5 2012
Rebecca LeMoine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Practice Job Talk: “Reforming the Armed Camp: The Irrationality of Xenophobia in Plato’s Laws.”
• Location and Time: 211 North Hall, 1:00-2:15 PM

Friday, November 2, 2012
Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Practice Job Talk: “Birthright Democracy: Nationalism and Self-Government in History.”
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15 PM

Friday, November 9, 2012
Se-Hyoung Yi, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Practice Job Talk: “Confucianism and Deliberative Democracy: Harmony in Mengzi’s MENGZI”
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:30-1:45 PM

Friday, November 16, 2012
Danielle Delaney, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Title: “In the Land of Darkness: the Challenge of the Small Peoples of the North to Post-Colonialism and the Theory of Indigeneity.”
• Discussant: Jimmy Casas Klausen
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 1:15-2:30

Friday, December 7, 2012
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Title:”Speaking Relative Truth to Power: Antifoundationalism and Oppression in African-American Thought.”
• Discussant: Thomas Bunting
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

Friday, January 25, 2013
Katelyn Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Title: “Recovering Solitude: Arendt and Emerson on Solitude and Political Participation”
• Discussant: John Zumbrunnen
• Location and Time: 211 North Hall, 2:00-3:15

Friday, February 8, 2013
Meeting to discuss Joel Schlosser’s “Hope, Danger’s Comforter:” Thucydides, Hope, and Politics.” (JOP 75.1, January 2013.)

• Location and time: Ogg Room, North Hall, 12:00-1:15

Friday, February 15, 2013
Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania (Sponsored by the Undergraduate Political Theory Association)

• Title: “Liberalism and the Problem of Plutocracy“
• Discussant: Daniel Walters
• Location and time: Ogg Room, North Hall, 12:00-1:15

Friday, March 1, 2013
Meeting to discuss Mary Dietz’s “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics.” (APSR 106.2, May 2012.)

• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

Friday, March 8, 2013
Meeting to discuss Susan Sreedhar’s “Defending the Hobbesian Right of Self-Defense.” (Political Theory 36.6, 2008). 

• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

Friday, March 15, 2013
Julie E. Cooper, University of Chicago

• Title: “A Diasporic Critique of Diasporism.”
• Discussant: Rob Gingerich
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

Friday, April 5, 2013
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

• Title: Caveman Politics: Very Early Political Symbols
• Discussant: Danielle Delaney
• Location and Time: L150 Education, 12:00-1:15

Friday, April 19, 2013
Brandon Turner, Clemson University

• Title: “Locke’s Violent Liberalism.”
• Discussant: Thomas Bunting
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

Friday, May 3, 2013
Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University

• Title: “Contract, Friendship, and Love in The Merchant of Venice“
• Discussant: Brianne Walsh
• Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15

2011-2012 Schedule and Papers

Friday, September 16, 2011

• 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

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

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

Friday, February 3, 2012

Friday, February 17, 2012

Friday, March 2, 2012