Upcoming Events
January 2020
David Thunder: Sovereign Rule and the Still-Birth of Freedom
4:30pm, January 23rd, 2020
Location TBA
Many modern political theorists, from Hobbes to Rawls, fail to grasp the intimate dependence of human freedom on the complex organization and culture of a wide range of social groups. Once we reject individualistic social ontologies along with the modern doctrines of political sovereignty that they support, we are able to make a fresh start and more adequately investigate what sort of institutional and cultural conditions are likely to support what I call the “freedom to flourish.”
February 2020
Tariq Thachil (Vanderbilt)
4:30pm, February 27th, 2020
Location TBA
Tariq Thachil’s current research focuses on the political consequences of urbanization, and draws on extensive qualitative and quantitative research among poor migrants in Indian cities. An article from this project, coauthored with Adam Auerbach, received the 2018 Heinz I. Eulau Award for the best article published in the American Political Science Review in the previous calendar year.
March 2020
James C. Scott (Yale)
6:30pm, March 17th, 2020
Location TBA
James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology and co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism.
Barak Richman (Duke): Stateless Commerce: Questions Answered and Questions Remaining
4:30pm, March 26th, 2020
Barak Richman is the Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration at Duke University. His primary research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy.
May 2020
Jeffrey Friedman (Berkeley)
4:30pm, May 21st, 2020
Jeffrey Friedman is a visiting scholar in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the Max Weber Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at Boston University. He is the founder and editor of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society.