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.  Geneviève Rousselière is the Faculty Director and Brianne Wolf and  Thomas Bunting are the Graduate Student Coordinators. The Workshop is generously supported by Political Science alumni and donors. Meetings are generally held in the Ogg Room of North Hall, unless otherwise noted. This website also features information on political theory related talks and events organized by other units and departments.

Date	Author(s)	Title (click to download paper)	Discussant
Tues. September 13	Laura Sojberg (UF; joint with IRC)	Jihadi Brides and Female Volunteers: Reading the Islamic State War to See Gender in Conflict Dynamics”
Tues. Fri. September 16	Michael Promisel (UW Madison)	Statesmanship Reconsidered: Plutarch and the Forms of Statesmanship
Tues. September 20	Bob Vitalis (Penn; joint with IRC)	White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations
Fri. September 23	Thomas Bunting (UW Madison)	Communities of Spectatorship: Fandom and Politics (practice job talk)	N/A
Fri. September 30	Brianne Wolf (UW Madison)	“Freedom’s Apprenticeship”: Tocqueville on the Development and Exercise of Democratic Taste (practice job talk)	N/A
Fri. October 7	Andrea Radasanu (Northern Illinois University	Montesquieu’s Animus Against Idealism in the Pursuit of Peace Among Nations	Brianne Wolf
Tues. October 11	Katelyn Jones (joint with IRC)	Practice Job Talk	N/A
Fri. October 14	Keisha Lindsay  (UW Madison)	Chalk It Up to Experience:  All-Black Male Schools, Intersectionality and Feminist Politics (Book Manuscript Workshop) *8:15am-2:00 pm* Education Building, Wisconsin Idea Room	Mary Hawkesworth  Lawrie Balfour  Lance McCready Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Fri. October 21	Josh Ober (Stanford University)	Discussion	N/A
Fri. November 11	Dan Kapust and Rachel Schwartz (UW Madison)	“Grievance vs. Greed: Hobbes on the Mutually Constitutive Origins of Civil War”	Thomas Bunting
Fri. December 9	Danielle Delaney (UW Madison)	Satori and Ereignis: Finding Transcendence in Xenophobic Nationalism, a Tale of Two Philosophers	Rebecca Anderson
Fri. December 16	Michelle Schwarze (UW, Madison)	Violent Passions and Liberal Citizenship (Book Manuscript Workshop)	Henry Clark Rebecca Kingston Robert Louden Steve Nadler Dennis Rasmussen
Fri. January 20	Melvin Rogers (UCLA)	“Being a Slave of the Community: Democratic-Republicanism and Racialized Domination”	Michael Promisel
Fri. February 3	Ayten Gundogdu (Barnard)	“Between the Human and the Person: A Critical Inquiry into the Subject of Rights.”	Danielle Delaney
Fri. February 17	Harriet Fertik (University of New Hampshire)	“Security, Privacy, and Fragility in Public Life: Tacitus and the Delatores”	Michael Promisel
Sat. February 25	Rebecca LeMoine (Florida Atlantic University)	Book Manuscript Workshop (Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy)	Susan Collins (Notre Dame)
Fri. March 3	Susan Sreedhar (Boston University)	“Theft, Murder, Adultery”: Hobbes, Pufendorf and the Spartans	Katherine Robiadek
Fri. April 28	Rebecca Anderson (UW Madison)
Fri. May 5	Dean Mathiowetz (UC Santa Cruz)