Political Theory Workshop

Faculty Conveners:
Joshua Cohen
Rob Reich

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2007-2008 Schedule
: Fall : Winter : Spring :

Fall Quarter

September 28
Harry Brighouse
Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Legitimate Parental Partiality

October 12
Bonnie Honig
Political Science, Northwestern Unviersity
Title: Antigone's Anachronism: Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens

October 19
Fabrice Murtin
London School of Economics
Title: Educational Inequalities Among World Citizens, 1870-2000
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

October 26
Norman Daniels
School of Public Health, Harvard University
Title: International Health Inequities and Global Justice
Co-Sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and the Center for Health Policy in the Freeman Spogli Institute

November 2
Branko Milanovic
World Bank and Carnegie Endowment for Peace
Title: Ethical Case and Economic Feasibility of Global Transfers
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

November 9
G.A. Cohen
Philosophy, Oxford University
Title: A Truth in Conservatism: Rescuing Conservatism from Conservatives
Co-sponsored with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and the Department of Philosophy
Note: This Workshop is at 3:15 in Building 370, Room 370

November 16
Sarah Song
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Title: The Subject of Multiculturalism: Culture, Religion, Language, Ethnicity, Nationally, and Race?
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

December 7
Wendy Brown
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

Winter Quarter

January 15
Helena de Bres
Philosophy, MIT and Stanford University
Title: The Many, Not the Few: Pluralism About Distrubtive Justice
Co-Sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
Note: This Workshop is at 4:15-6:00pm on Tuesday

January 18
Brad McHose
Ethics in Society, Stanford University
Title: Equal by Nature?
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

January 25
Avia Pasternak
Program on Global Justice, Stanford University
Title: Sanctioning Liberal Democracies
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

February 1
Adam Rosenblatt
Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Title: Last Rights: International Forensic Investigations and the Claims of the Dead
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

February 8
Andrew Rehfeld
Political Science, Washington University at St. Louis
Title: Democratic Lawmaking and Political Representation

February 15
Kirsten Oleson
Public Policy, Stanford University
Title: Savings, Sustainability and Equality
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

February 22
Neta Crawford
Political Science, Boston University
Title: Caring About Systemic Military Atrocity in Iraq and Afghanistan
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

February 29
Jane Mansbridge
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Title: What Does the Ideal of Deliberative Democracy Demand?

March 14
Kinch Hoekstra
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Hobbes on Equality

Spring Quarter

April 4
Jan-Werner Mueller
Politics, Princeton University
Title: The Laws of Others: Three Constitutionalist Responses to Interdependence
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and The Forum on Contemporary Europe

April 11
Ryan Balot
Political Science, University of Toronto
Title: Athens, A Democracy of Virtue

April 25
Faviola Rivera Castro
Visting Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center and Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Title: Secularization and Religion: The Legacy of Liberalism in Mexico
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 2
Charles Beitz
Politics, Princeton University
Title: The Moral Standing of States Revisited
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 16
Sohail Hashmi
Political Science, Mt. Holyoke College
Title: 9/11 and the Jihad Tradition
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and CISAC
Special Time and Location: 12:00-1:30pm, Encina Central 231

Week of May 26
Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy

Philippe van Parijs
Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain and Harvard University
Title: Polyglot Politics

Lecture 1: Rethinking Justice for Multilingual Entities, May 28, 5:30-7:00, Bldg. 370, Room 370
Lecture 2: Institutional Design for Multilingual Democracies, May 29, 5:30-7:00, Bldg. 370, Room 370
Discussion Seminar: Led by David Laiting (Political Science, Stanford), May 30, 1:15-3:00, Bldg. 110, 1st floord conference room