POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP

2021

September 10th: “Embodying Refusal: from The Bacchae to The Fits”

Presenter: Bonnie Honig, Brown University

Discussant: Michael Villanova, The Graduate Center, CUNY

April 23rd: “Re-Branding the Welfare State: The Interior Architecture of British Jobcentres, 1910-Present”

Presenter: Bernardo Zacka, Massachussetts Institute of Technology

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

April 9th: “Trump and the Wages of White Men”

Presenter: Melinda Cooper, Australian National University

Discussant: Milo Ward, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 19th: “‘Our Friend’ Angela Davis: The Black Communist Star”

Presenter: Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University

Discussant: Matt Mautarelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY

March 5th: “Ranciere’s Two Theses on Politics: The Disempowering Dualism of Dissensus”

Presenter: Tyler Olsen, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Tyler Crown, The Graduate Center, CUNY

February 19th: “Problems with Authority: James Q. Wilson’s Political Theory of the Police”

Presenter: Milo Ward, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Tyler Olsen, The Graduate Center, CUNY

February 5th: “Parties of Catastrophe: Keynes and the October Revolution”

Presenter: Asher Wycoff, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Discussant: Aaron Braun, The Graduate Center, CUNY