January 9
“Bodies of knowledge, prisoners of value: lessons from the prison as laboratory”
Alexander de la Paz, University of Chicago

January 16
NO SESSION

January 23
“The History of Ideas as Philosophy and History”
Michael Rosen, Harvard University

January 30
“Inheriting the Universalist Project: The Aporias of Internationalism and Derrida’s Democracy to Come”
Ashleigh Campi, University of Chicago

February 6
“Ideal Theory After Auschwitz?”
Benjamin McKean, University of Chicago

February 13
“‘No Exaggerated Picture of Lawlessness’: Opium Smuggling and the Colonial State in Late Nineteenth Century British Burma”
Diana Kim, University of Chicago

February 20
“Informed Consent or Informed Coercion? Ultrasounds, Abortion Politics, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge”
Claire McKinney, University of Chicago

February 27
“Can There Be Philosopher-Kings in a Liberal Polity?”
Jonny Thakkar, University of Chicago

March 5
“The Arendtian Critical Difference: Billy Budd and Arendtian Political Humanism as Political Resistance to the Ethical Predicament”
Gent Carrabregu, Northwestern University