Political Theory Workshop
Workshop in Political Theory
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Encina Hall, 616 Serra St., Room 008, 1:15pm-3:00pm
Faculty Conveners:
Joshua Cohen
Rob Reich
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2008-2009 Schedule
: Fall : Winter : Spring :
October 10
Robert Taylor
Political Science, University of California, Davis
Title: Children as Projects and Persons: A Liberal Antimony
October 17
No Meeting: Ethics in Society Education Conference
October 24
No Meeting
October 29-31
No Meeting: Tanner Lecture on Human Values
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Lecture 1: Ontogenic Origins of Human Altruism
October 29, 5:30-7:00pm
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Discussion 1: October 30, 10:00am-12:00pm, Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A
Lecture 2: Phylogenetic Origins of Human Collaboration
October 30, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Discussion 2: October 31, 10:00am - 12:00pm, Landau Economics Bldg, SIEPR A
November 7
No Meeting. Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice meets with Terry Karl.
November 14
Laura Rosenbury
Law, Washington in St. Louis; Visiting Stanford
Title: Children as Subjects
November 28
No meeting. Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice meets with David Victor.
December 5
Aaron James
Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Title: A Theory of Fairness in Trade
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
December 12
Adam Samaha
Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; University of Chicago Law School
Title: Randomization in Adjudication
January 9
Andrew March
Political Science, Yale University
Title: Islam and Liberalism as Justificatory Projects
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
January 16
Stephen Macedo
Politics Dept. and Director, Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Title: The Immigration Dilema: The Demise of Social Justice?
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice.
January 30
Samuel Freeman
Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Institutional Bases of Distributive Justice
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
February 6
Debra Satz
Philosophy, Stanford University
Title: Markets and Morals: The Case of Child Labor
Chapter 4 & Chapter 7
February 13
Melissa Lane
History, Cambridge University
Title: Motivation and the Moral Division of Labor
February 25-27
Wesson Lectures on Problems of Democracy
Adam Przeworski
Politics, New York University
Title: Self-Government in Our Times
Lecture 1: February 25, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Building 370, Room 370
Lecture 2: February 26, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Building 370, Room 370
Discussion (with Professor James Fearon, Political Science, Stanford University):
February 27, 10:00am-12:00pm, Landau Economics, SIEPR A
March 13
Bonnie Nixon
Director of Environmental Sustainability at HP; Member of the Global Social Compliance Program Executive Board
Topic: Global Social Compliance and Labor Standards in the Global Economy
*CISAC Central Conference Room , 2nd Floor , Encina Hall Central*
April 3
Brooke Ackerly
Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Title: Justifying Universal Human Rights
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
April 15-17
The Tanner Lectures
Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Harvard Law School)
Lecture 1: The Future of Religion (tentative title)
April 15, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Location TBA
Discussion 1: April 16, 10:00am-12:00pm, Location TBA
Lecture 2: The Religion of the Future (tentative title)
April 16, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Location TBA
Dicussion 2: April 17, 10:00am-12:00pm, Location TBA
May 1
Anna Stilz
Politics, Princeton University
Title: Why Do States Have Territorial Rights?
Paper
May 15
Rebecca Saxe
Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Doing Experiments in Ethics
Paper 1, Paper 2
May 22
Jennifer Pitts
Political Science, University of Chicago
Title: Empire and International Law
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
May 29
Corey Robin
Political Science, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Title: "Easy
to Be Hard: Violence and Conservatism"
Paper