The following time slots are tentative, please reach out to us if you have any concerns:
Rachel Wagner – r.wagner@mail.utoronto.ca
Miko Zeldes-Roth – m.zeldesroth@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 27
William Gregson, “The Recognition Trap“
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
October 25
Devin Ouellette, “Mengzian Socialism as Remedy to Imperialism: The Mengzian Roots of Kotōku Shūsui’s Imperialism: Monster of the Twentieth Century“
Discussant: Prof. Menaka Philips
November 15
Miko Zeldes-Roth, “Beyond Sovereignty or Exile: The Limits of Exilic Jewish Politics and the Potential of Jewish Nationality”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol
November 29
Stefan Macleod, “Polanyian Global Justice”
Discussant: Prof. Joseph Carens
December 6
Professor Melissa Williams and Professor Dale Turner, “Indigenous Constituent Power”
Discussant: Zach Hollander
Winter Term
January 10
Hazim Mohamed, “The Moral Weight of Relationships in Political Membership”
Discussant: Prof. Joe Carens
January 24
Quinton Peralta-Greenough, “Reconsidering Michael Oakeshott’s Development: Moving Toward a Fulsome Account of Human Conduct”
Discussant: Prof. Andy Sabl
February 7
Schuyler Playford, “Arendt on Loneliness and the Philosophical Tradition”
Discussant: Prof. Rebecca Kingston
February 28
Kelsey Gordon, “Sex, Love, Poetry, and Suicide: Lucretia Marinella’s The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men”
Discussant: Prof. Emily Nacol
March 14
Carley Chavara, “‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Discourse, Aesthetics, and Imagined Community in Climate Politics”
Discussant: Prof. Melissa Williams
March 28
Discussant: Prof. William Paris
April 4
Omar Garcia, “The Coat of Arms and the Flâneur: Maurice Halbwachs and Walter Benjamin between Memory and History”
Discussant: Prof. Ruth Marshall
April 25
Professor Emily Nacol, “‘Time is Our Gambling Partner’: José Saramago’s Blindness and the Politics of Plague-Time”
Discussants: Rachel Wagner and Piper Sterling