POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP

2025

December 12: “Lineages of the Platform State.”

Presenter: Matt Mautarelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Tyler Crown, The Graduate Center, CUNY

December 5: “Women Against Abortion: Andrea Dworkin on Reproductive Freedom and Right Wing Women

Presenter: Rose A. Owen, SUNY Purchase

Discussant: S. N. Dowdy, The Graduate Center, CUNY

November 21: “Rubbed the Wrong Way: Andrea Long Chu’s Females, Lesbian Refusal, and the Revival of Feminist Polemic.”

Presenter: S. N. Dowdy, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Helena Najm, The Graduate Center, CUNY

October 17: “Every Man A Sovereign: Aspirations for Power in an Age of Decline.”

Presenter: Elizabeth Anker, The George Washington University

Discussant: Helena Najm, The Graduate Center, CUNY

October 3: “Fatherless Fraternity: Forgetting as a Critical Democratic Practice.”

Presenter: Michael Villanova, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Carmen Melillo, The Graduate Center, CUNY

September 19: “… Spirit Has Broken With The World.”

Presenter: Susan Buck-Morss, The Graduate Center, CUNY

May 9: “Freedom and Control at Work.”

Presenter: William Clare Roberts, McGill University

Discussant: Carmen Melillo, The Graduate Center, CUNY

April 25: “Beyond Property-Owning Democracy: Financialization, Private Property, and Democratic Citizenship.” [Co-Sponsored by the Center for Global Ethics and Politics]

Presenter: Kyong-Min Son, University of Delaware

Discussant: Zachary Conn, The Graduate Center, CUNY

April 4: “A Contribution to the Critique of ‘Fictitious Capital.’”

Presenter: Samuel A. Chambers, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant: Aaron Braun, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 21: “Regime Theory from the South: W. Arthur Lewis and Development Economics as Postcolonial Political Thought.”

Presenter: Joy Wang, University of Chicago

Discussant: Kamran Moshref, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 20: “Reclaiming Democracy in a Time of Crisis” [Co-Sponsored by the Center for Global Ethics and Politics]

Presenter: Cristina Lafont, Northwestern University

March 14: “‘1962’: Creative Paranoia as Poesis and Praxis”

Presenter: George Shulman, New York University

Discussant: Nigel Cambridge, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 13: “Disruptive, Divisive, Sometimes Even Illegal: What, if Anything, is Good About Strikes?” [Co-Sponsored with the Center for Global Ethics and Politics]

Presenter: Alex Gourevitch, Brown University

February 28: “Transimperial Protectionism: The American System and the Critique of Political Economy.”

Presenter: Tyler Crown, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Carmen Melillo, The Graduate Center, CUNY

February 21: “Red Power Partisans”

Presenter: Robert Nichols, University of California, Santa Cruz

Discussant: Laura Altinsoy, The Graduate Center, CUNY