Political Theory Workshop Fall 2024

Friday, September 20th, 2024, 4:00-6:00 pm (Partner Event)
Glen Coulthard (Associate Prof. in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia), “Maoism Without Guarantees: Third World Influences on Fourth World Anti-Colonialism in Canada”
Location: Room 555, Weiser Hall

Friday, September 27th, 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm
Qian Qian Ng (Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science at UMich), “A Structural Account of Epistemic Injustices: Reconsidering the Finniss River Land Claim (1981)”
Location: Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall
Discussant: Maria Lovetere

Friday, October 11th, 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm
Juliet Hooker (Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University), “Arendt on Black Dissent and White Nostalgia”
Location: Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall
Discussant: Jess Hasper

Friday, October 18th, 2024, 1:30-2:30 pm (Co-Sponsored Event)
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Professor of Political Science and Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Northwestern University), “Religion and Politics After Secularism: The Politics of AmericaIsrael and the War on Gaza”
Location: Vandenberg Room, Michigan League (2nd floor)

Friday, October 25th, 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm
Mirza Abu Bakr Baig (Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science at UMich)
Julius Nyerere's Anticolonial Nostalgia
Location: Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall

Friday, November 1st, 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm
Lacey Slizeski (Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UMich), Title TBA
Location: Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall

Friday, November 8th, 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm
Jeff Spinner-Halev (Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at University of North Carolina) and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse (Willa Cather Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality
Location: Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall

Friday, December 6th, 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm
Charisse Burden-Stelly (Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University), Title TBA
Location: Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall