Political Theory Workshop

Faculty Conveners:
Joshua Cohen
Rob Reich

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2006-2007 Schedule
: Fall : Winter : Spring :

Fall Quarter

November 3
Seema Jayachandran
Economics, Stanford University
Title: Odious Debt
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

November 10
Larry Kramer
Law, Stanford University
Title: 'The Interest of the Man': James Madison, Popular Constitutionalism, and the Theory of Deliberative Democracy

November 17
John Bowen
Anthropology, Washington University at St. Louis
Title: If Citizenship is Community, Then Which Communities Count?

December 1:
Josiah Ober
Political Science, Classics, Stanford University
Title: Competition, Scale, and Varieties of Knowledge (Chapter 3 of a book in progess: Democratic Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens)

December 15
Sebastiano Maffetone
Columbia University
Title: Universal Duty and Global Justice
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

Winter Quarter

January 12
Archon Fung
JFK School Harvard University
Title: Pragmatic Democracy: A Consequentialist Quest for Institutions of Self-Governance

January 19
Michael Blake
Philosophy, University of Washington
Title: Political Liberalism Abroad
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

January 26
Seana Shiffrin
Philosophy, School of Law, UCLA
Title: Promising, Conventionalism, and Intimate Relationships

February 2
Jennifer Rubenstein
Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Title: Distribution and Emergency & Pluralism About Global Poverty
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

February 23
Thomas Scanlon
Philosophy, Harvard University
Title: When Does Equality Matter?
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and the Stanford Philosophy Department
Note: 3:15-5:30pm, Building 60, Room 61H

March 9
A.J. Julius
Philosophy, NYU
Title: Nagel's Atlas & Basic Structure and Value of Equality

March 30
Christian List
Government, London School of Economics
Cancelled: To be rescheduled in 2007-2008

Spring Quarter

April 4
Stanford University Tanner Lectures
Glenn Loury
Brown University
Title: Ghettoes, Prisons, and Racial Backlash
5:30-7:00pm, Stanford Humanities Center

April 5
Stanford University Tanner Lectures
Glenn Loury
Brown Unviersity
Title: Social Identity and the Ethics of Punishment
5:30-7:00pm, Stanford Humanities center

April 10
Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Joshua Cohen
Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University
Title: On Public Reason
4:00-6:30pm, University of California at Berkeley, Toll Room, Alumni House

April 11
Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Joshua Cohen
Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University
Title: Democracy's Public Reason, Global Public Reason
4:00-6:30pm, University of California at Berkeley, Toll Room, Alumni House

April 18
Stanford University Wesson Lectures
David Miller
Oxford University
Title: What Makes a Demos?
5:30-7:00pm, Cordura Hall, Room 100
Sponsored by the Program in Ethics in Society

April 19
Stanford University Wesson Lectures
David Miller
Oxford University
Title: Democratic Inclusion and Exclusion
5:30-7:00pm, Cordura Hall, Room 100
Sponsored by the Program in Ethics in Society

April 27
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Political Science, Stanford University
Title: Politics of Precaution
Note: Held in CISAC Central Conference Room, Encina 2nd Floor

May 4
Ayelet Shachar
Law, University of Toronto, Visitor 2006-2007 Stanford Law School
Title: Global Inequality and Birthright Citizenship
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 11
Adam Hosein
PhD Student, Philosophy, MIT, visiting pre-doctoral student at Stanford
Title: How Much Can Political Philosophy Tell Us About Global Fairness?
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 18
Uday Mehta
Political Science, Amherst College
Title: The Language of Peace and the Practice of Non-Violence
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 25
Linda Zerilli
Political Science, Northwestern University and Visiting Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
Title: Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment