All seminars are at 3pm and will take place via Zoom. Papers will be pre-circulated one week in advance of the seminars to facilitate discussion. The seminars this year are organised by Joseph Lacey of UCD and Allyn Fives of NUIG, with Marie Moran, of the UCD Equality Studies Centre. If you would like to receive an invite, please email Marie (marie.moran@ucd.ie), Allyn (allyn.fives@nuigalway.ie) or Joseph (joseph.lacey1@ucd.ie). Members of the PSAI Political Theory specialist group need not do this, as they will automatically receive an invite to attend each seminar. The seminars will begin with a short presentation by the speaker (five to ten minutes maximum) and then move on to discussion of the speaker’s paper and will last circa 1 to 1 ½ hours.
January 28: Ross Carroll (University of Exeter): Edmund Burke, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Two Faces of Abolition
February 25: Jeronimo Rilla (University of Buenos Aires): What kind of group is Antifa?
March 25: William Ratoff (TCD): Rational Machines Should Not Be Voluntary Slaves
April 29: Niamh Reilly (NUIG): Nietzsche in Ireland's battle of ideas before 1916
The seminar series is hosted by the Dublin Political Theory Workshop (School of Politics and International Relations, UCD) and the Power, Conflict, and Ideologies Research Cluster and School Seminar Series (School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway) in conjunction with the:
Centre for Peace, Development and Social Justice (Department of Politics and Public Administration, UL)
PSAI Political Theory Specialist Group;
Queen’s Political Theory and Philosophy Seminar Series (School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics, QUB),
Trinity Justice and Values Centre (School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, TCD);
UCD Equality Studies Centre (School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD);