Political Theory Workshop Schedule

Spring 2025

selected Mondays, 12:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Pick 506

Week 1: March 24th

Banu Bargu

Professor of History of Consciousness

University of California, Santa Cruz

“Hegel or Horner? Marx’s Materialism and the Factory”

Joint session with the Comparative Politics Workshop

Week 4: April 14th

Camila Vergara

Senior Lecturer

Business School, University of Essex

“The People, Constituent Power, and the Struggle for the Commons”

Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Week 5: April 21st

Marshall Pierce

PhD Student, Political Science

University of Chicago

“Redeeming the Lost Foundation:

Arendtian Council Democracy between Liberation and Freedom”

Week 7: May 5th

Murad Idris

Associate Professor, Political Science

University of Michigan

“Qutb, Postcolonial”

Co-sponsored by The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society and The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

Week 8: May 12th

Emma Stone Mackinnon

University Assistant Professor in the History of Modern Political Thought

Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

“W.E.B. DuBois and the Critique of American Hypocrisy”

Co-sponsored by The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society and The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

Week 9: May 19th

Niklas Plaetzer

PhD candidate, Political Science

University of Chicago

“‘The Social Movement’ against the State:

Lorenz von Stein and the Origins of Institution-Blindness”