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MAY 8, 2008, Elisabeth Anker
The Pembroke Center, Brown

Political Philosophy Workshop at Brown University
Political Philosophy Workshop at Brown University
Political Philosophy Workshop at Brown University   The workshop meets weekly to discuss work in progress by faculty and graduate students from Brown University, as well as several outside scholars each semester. Those who attend come from several disciplines, but especially from the departments of Political Science and Philosophy. The emphasis is on constructive critical discussion of work in progress. Unless otherwise specified, the meetings will take place from 4-6 pm in the conference room of the Graduate School (47 George St.).

Fall 2007/Spring 2008
 


SEPTEMBER 13, 2007, Glenn Loury
Economics, Brown
Why are so many Americans in prison?

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007, Seana Shiffrin
Philosophy, UCLA
Promising, Intimate Relationships, and Conventionalism

OCTOBER 11, 2007, George Klosko
Government, UVA
Cosmopolitanism, Political Obligation, and the Welfare State

OCTOBER 18, 2007, Leigh Jenco
Political Science, Brown
Zhang Shizhao and the Paradoxes of Founding

OCTOBER 25, 2007, Dennis Rasmussen
Political Science, Brown
Contemporary Political Theory as an Anti-Enlightenment Project

NOVEMBER 8, 2007, Arthur Ripstein
Philosophy, U Toronto

NOVEMBER 29, 2007, Christina Tarnopolsky
Political Science, McGill
The Logic of Thumos and Mimesis in Plato's Republic

DECEMBER 13, 2007, Sahar Akhtar
Political Science, Brown
CANCELLED

JANUARY 31, 2008, Jason Brennan
Political Science, Brown
Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote

FEBRUARY 14, 2008, Jeremy Waldron
Law School, NYU
Dignity and Rank

FEBRUARY 28, 2008, Simone Chambers
Political Science, U Toronto
Rhetoric and the Public Sphere:

MARCH 6, 2008, Corey Brettschneider
Political Science, Brown
Beyond Rights: Liberalism's Responses to Hateful Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2008, Eric Nelson
Government, Harvard
"For the land is Mine"

APRIL 3, 2008, Emily Nacol
Political Science, Brown

The Beehive and the Stew: Prostitution, Risk and Commerce in the Political Thought of Bernard Mandeville

APRIL 10, 2008, Clare Chambers
Philosophy, Cambridge

Feminism, Liberalism and Marriage

APRIL 24, 2008, Jacob Levy
Political Science, McGill
Federalism and Constitutional Entrenchment

MAY 1, 2008, Sahar Akhtar
Political Science, Brown
Liberal Respect for Identity? Only for Particular Ones

MAY 8, 2008, Elisabeth Anker
The Pembroke Center, Brown
The Venomous Eye: Vengeance, Melodrama and the Legitimation of State Power


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