Winter 2025 Political Theory Workshop Schedule

Mondays in Pick 506, 12:00 – 1:20 PM CT

January 6th

Agneska Bloch

PhD Student, Political Science

University of Chicago

“Jewish Israelis and 1948: A Failure to Judge Politically”

January 23rd*

David Lay Williams

Professor of Political Science

DePaul University

“The Greatest of All Plagues” (Book Talk)

Discussants:

Chiara Cordelli, Professor, Department of Political Science

Steven Durlauf, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

* This special session is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility. Please note that it will take place on a Thursday, from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in the Harris Sky Suite.

February 3rd

Daniele Lorenzini

Associate Professor of Philosophy

University of Pennsylvania

“Frantz Fanon and the Harms of Racist Oppression”

February 17th

Burak Tan

PhD candidate, Political Science

University of Chicago

“Political Homophobia as Authoritarian Strategy”

March 3rd

Michael George Hanchard

Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies

University of Pennsylvania

“The State’s Capillaries: Racism, Surveillance and Popular Duplicity”