Events Archive
"The Political Theory of Venality in the Ancien Régime": Daniel Luban (Columbia University)
Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
"‘Des moulins à paroles’. The struggle over the meaning of democracy in France, 1850-1851": Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University)
Thu, May 2, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
"What should the welfare state look like?" Bernardo Zacka (MIT)
Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Sophia Moreau (University of Toronto): “Objectionable Obligations”
Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
“'On the Basis of Race': Affirmative Action After the Harvard Case" Benjamin Eidelson (Harvard Law School)
Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
“Religious Liberty before Liberalism: Tertullian and the Origins of North-African Christian Political Philosophy” Jed W. Atkins (Duke University)
Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Matthieu Queloz (University of Bern): Eliminating Tragic Conflict in Politics? The Dworkin–Williams Debate
Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Miguel Vatter (Deakin University): “Earth as Home: Elements of a Planetary Political Theology”
Thu, Oct 5, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Wendy Brown (Institute for Advanced Study): "More Democracy, Democracy that is More, or Democracy No More?"
Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Anne Phillips (London School of Economics): Should we abandon talk of moral equality?
Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
James Kloppenberg (Harvard University): "Why Political Theory Needs History: Dismantling the Liberal-Republican Distinction to Understand the Promise of American Democracy"
Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Clarissa Hayward (Washington University in St. Louis): Structural Power and Structural Change
Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Jamie Susskind (author and barrister): Digital Republicanism: How to Govern Technology
Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Emily Greenwood (Princeton University): "Optative Citizenship: Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) and the Grammar of Black Women’s Suffrage"
Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Speaker
Emily Greenwood
Affiliation
Princeton University
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Tom Dougherty (The University of North Carolina): "Social Scripts and Sexual Oppression"
Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Speaker
Tom Dougherty
Affiliation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Jennifer Morton (University of Pennsylvania): "The Nature of Poverty"
Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Jennifer Morton
Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Jack Turner III (University of Washington): "Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy"
Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Speaker
Jack Turner III
Affiliation
University of Washington
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Simone Chambers (University of California-Irvine): "How can the people rule? Majority rule and the rise of populism"
Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Simone Chambers
Affiliation
University of California-Irvine
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Benjamin Straumann (New York University): "How to Save your City from Calamity: Hobbes’s Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue"
Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Benjamin Straumann
Affiliation
New York University
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Melvin Rogers (Brown University): "Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction"
Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Melvin Rogers
Affiliation
Brown University
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Political Philosophy Colloquium: Benjamin Straumann (New York University) (POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021)
Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Simone Chambers (University of California-Irvine) "The People, the Representative, and the Public Sphere: Rethinking democratic concepts in the face of crisis" (POSTPONED TO SPRING 2021)
Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Laura Valentini (London School of Economics): "Claim-rights, Moral Theory, and Social Empowerment"
Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Speaker
Laura Valentini
Affiliation
London School of Economics
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Political Philosophy Colloquium: Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge)
Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Political Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)
Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Open to Princeton University ID Holders
Rainer Forst (Goethe Universität): "A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-) Justice: Realistic in the Right Way"
Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin 127
Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California): "Legitimate Injustice" (CANCELED)
Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin 127
Richard Tuck (Harvard University): "How Hobbesian was Rousseau? How Rousseauian was Hobbes?"
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin 127
Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong): "Pragmatic Confucian Democracy"
Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
301 Marx Hall
Eileen Hunt Botting (University of Notre Dame): "Hearing the Creature: Articulating the Child's Right to be Genetically Modified"
Thu, Apr 5, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Avner de Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "What is inequality in the city?"
Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
301 Marx Hall
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia): "Imagining Freedom -Toni Morrison on Taking Flight and Making a Home in the Racial Polity"
Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Peter Railton (University of Michigan): "Sentimentalism and Neo-Sentimentalism - Facts and Values"
Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Wallace Hall, Room 300
Andrew March (Harvard University): "A Republic of Virtue or a Republic of Citizens? Ambiguities in Modern Islamic Democratic Theory"
Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Adom Getachew (University of Chicago): From Principle to Right: Self-determination in the Age of Decolonization
Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Corwin Hall, Room 127
Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford): "Acknowledging Equality"
Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Room 127, Corwin Hall
Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University): "Georg Lukacs and Kantian Realpolitik"
Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Room 127, Corwin Hall
Arash Abizadeh (McGill University): "Hobbes' Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure"
Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Room 127, Corwin Hall
Katrina Forrester (Queen Mary, University of London): "The Origins of Contemporary Liberal Theory Revisited"
Thu, Feb 9, 2017, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Room 127, Corwin Hall
Political Philosophy Colloquium: "Ideal Theory, Utopianism, and What's the Question (in Political Philosophy)"
Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Room 127, Corwin Hall
Speaker
David Enoch
Affiliation
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"A Few Puzzles about Freedom of Association"
Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Kimberley Brownlee
Affiliation
University of Warwick
Presentation
"Political Religion: Kateb's Lincoln and the Republican Tradition"
Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Jeffrey Stout
Affiliation
Princeton University
Presentation
"Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence and the Rules that Run the World"
Thu, Mar 3, 2016, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Room 127, Corwin Hall
Speaker
Leif Wenar
Affiliation
Kings College
Presentation
"The Space of Politics and the Space of War: Some Grotian Prolegomena"
Thu, Dec 3, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Annabel Brett
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Presentation
"Historicism and Critique"
Thu, Oct 8, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Mark Bevir
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
Presentation
"Explaining Forgiveness"
Thu, Apr 23, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Miranda Fricker
Affiliation
University of Sheffield
Presentation
"The Worth of Relationships: Distributive Justice and Sociability"
Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin
Speaker
Chiara Cordelli
Affiliation
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University and University of Exeter
Presentation
"The Bargain Basis: Rawls, Anti-Pelagianism, and Moral Arbitrariness"
Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Eric Nelson
Affiliation
Harvard University
Presentation
"Lincoln's Political Thought"
Thu, Nov 13, 2014, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Aaron Burr Hall 219
Speaker
"The Place of Freedom in a Theory of Discrimination"
Thu, Oct 2, 2014, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
127 Corwin Hall
Speaker
Sophia Moreau
Affiliation
University of Toronto
Presentation