POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP

2023

December 1st: “The Two Thomases: Utopia, Millenarianism, and the Revolutionary Imagination”

Presenter: O. L. Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Asher Wycoff, The Graduate Center, CUNY

November 17th: “The Politics of Privilege: Entitlement, Advantage, and Reform”

Presenter: Andrew Sabl, The University of Toronto

Discussant: Tyler Crown, The Graduate Center, CUNY

November 3rd: “The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialization”

Presenter: Gabriel Winant, The University of Chicago

Discussant: Milo Ward, The Graduate Center, CUNY

October 27th: “Capitalism’s Mute Compulsion” [Co-Sponsored by the Center for Global Ethics and Politics]

Presenter: Søren Mau, Aarhus University

October 20th: “Rethinking Domination in the Age of the Externality”

Presenter: Alyssa Battistoni, Barnard College

Discussant: Astrid Hallaraaker, The Graduate Center, CUNY

October 6th: “Broken Windows and the Limits of Critical Theories of Police”

Presenter: Milo Ward, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Nigel Cambridge, The Graduate Center, CUNY

September 22nd: “Living with Political Friends: Gandhi, Polak, and the Awkwardness of their Friendship in Republican Thought”

Presenter: Astrid Hallaraaker, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Michael Villanova, The Graduate Center, CUNY

September 8th: “Decolonize Mars: On Some Implications of a Planetary Turn in Political Theory”

Presenter: Kamran Moshref, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: O. L. Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

April 21st: “Caribbean Polis: Thinking with C.L.R. James About Decolonization, Social, and the Good Life”

Presenter: Gary Wilder, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Matthew Mautarelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 31st: “Fighting for Exploitation as if it was Rebellion: Spinoza, Marx, and Subjection Today”

Presenter, Jason Read, University of Southern Maine

Discussant: O. L. Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 17th: “Bringing the War Home: Frantz Fanon and the Disorders of Violence”

Presenter: Robyn Marasco, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

February 10th: “Between Pathology and Generativity: Black Paranoia, Black Political Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition”

Presenter: Nigel Cambridge, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Milo Ward, The Graduate Center, CUNY