The following time slots are tentative. Please reach out to us if you have any concerns:
William Gregson – William.gregson@mail.utoronto.ca
Maddie Hay – m.hay@mail.utoronto.ca
Zach Hollander – zach.hollander@mail.utoronto.ca
All meetings will be held Fridays 3:00pm – 4:30pm (EST) in person in SS3130.
Fall Term
September 26
Prof. Derefe Chevannes, “Trumpism as the Rearticulation of American Whiteness: A Genealogy of Racial Statecraft.”
Discussant: William Gregson
October 10
Quinton Peralta-Greenough, “Classical Liberalism in Contradistinction: Individual Liberty as Beginning, Middle, or End.“
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
October 24
Prof. Torrey Shanks, “Wit, Wisdom and Ornatus: From Skinner’s Hobbes to Margaret Cavendish.”
Discussant: Rachel Wagner
November 7
Rachel Wagner, “Facing Our Fixations: Recovering Hobbes’s Teaching on the Fear Behind the Fear of Death.“
Discussant: Prof. Andrew Sabl
November 21
Kelsey Gordon, “Beneath the Yellow Veil: Esoteric Sexual Ethics and the Art of the Courtesan.”
Discussant: Prof. Clifford Orwin
December 5
Maddie Hay, “Nostalgic Prefiguration: Community Land Trusts and the Politics of the Past.”
Discussant: Prof. William Paris
December 12
Callum Shepard, “Against an Alien Will: Participation and Domination in Karl Marx’s Democratic Theory.”
Discussant: Prof. David Ragazzoni
Winter Term
January 9
William Gregson, “Breaking the ‘Invisible Chains of Slavery’: Recognition’s Motivational Problem and Frederick Douglass’s Abolitionist Politics of Shame.”
Discussant: Prof. Derefe Chevannes
January 23
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol
February 6
Etienne Cardin-Trudeau, “Self-Rule as Power-With: A Follettian Understanding.”
Discussant: Prof. Joe Carens
February 27
Iddan Sonsino, “Instability, Social Disruption, and Normative Evaluation of the Market.”
Discussant: Prof. Joe Carens
March 27
Zach Hollander, “Sensibility and Counterrevolution: Marcuse’s Dialectic of Emancipation.“
Discussant: Prof. Arturo Chang
April 10
Piper Sterling, “The Personal is Still Political: Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya’s ‘My Life’ in Reception and in her own Words”
Discussant: Prof. Theresa Enright
April 17
Joseph Dattilo, “They are Other than the Creatures of Our Imagination: Introspection, Projection, & Liberalism.”
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
April 24
Miko Zeldes-Roth, “Political Responsibility Under Multiracial Authoritarianism”
Discussant: Prof. Matthew Walton