UW-Madison Political Theory Workshop
Fridays from 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Faculty coordinator: Joshua Dienstag (jdienstag@wisc.edu)
Graduate coordinator: Noah Stengl (stengl@wisc.edu)
2023-2024 Schedule
Fall Semester:
September 8, 2023: Joorahm Kim (UW-Madison)
Practice Job Talk--No Discussant
September 15, 2023: No PTW--Erev Rosh Hashanah
September 22, 2023: No PTW
September 29, 2023: Nolan Bennett (UW-Green Bay), "Jean Genet's Outlaw as Criminal and Comrade"
Co-sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Discussant: Quanxin Yang
October 6, 2023: Noah Stengl (UW-Madison)
Co-sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Practice Job Talk--No Discussant
October 13, 2023: Phillip Pinell (UW-Madison), "How a People Becomes a People: Memory and Identity in Jefferson's Founding Narratives"
Discussant: Garrett Jones
October 20, 2023: Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), "The Varieties of Judicial Empathy"
Co-sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Discussant: Phillip Pinell
October 27, 2023: Kennan Ferguson (UW-Milwaukee), "The Phenomenal Inhuman: Nature's Politics"
Discussant: Joorahm Kim
November 3, 2023: Xinzhi Zhao (UW-Madison)
Practice Job Talk--No Discussant
November 10, 2023: No PTW
November 17, 2023: Neil Roberts (Williams College), "Policing's Unfreedom"
Co-sponsored with Political Economy, Philosophy, and Politics and the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Discussant: Aditya Hariharan
December 1, 2023: Adrian Treves (UW-Madison) & Francisco Santiago-Ávila (Heartland Rewilding Institute), "Just Preservation" (with William S. Lynn), Biological Conservation 229 (2019): 134-141.
Discussant: Noah Stengl
December 8, 2023: No PTW
Spring Semester:
January 26, 2024: No PTW
February 2, 2024: No PTW
February 9, 2024: No PTW
February 16, 2024: Annie Menzel (UW-Madison), "Privacy's Properties, Or 'Why Roe Was Never Enough': Race, Class, and Reproductive Policing"
Co-sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Discussant: Rebecca Anderson
February 23, 2024: Lilly Goren (Carroll University), "Fighting with One Hand Tied Behind Your Back: Origin Stories, Power, Gender, Heroes, and Superheroes"
Discussant: Noah Stengl
March 1, 2024: Quanxin Yang (UW-Madison)
Preliminary Exam--No Discussant
NOTE: This workshop will convene from 12:30-1:45 PM in Social Sciences 4308
March 8, 2024: Sharon Krause (Brown University), "Montesquieu, Arendt, and the Constitutio Libertatis: Relational Power, Plural Freedom"
Discussant: Xinzhi Zhao
March 15, 2024: No PTW
March 22, 2024: Joorahm Kim (UW-Madison), REMOTE WORKSHOP
Practice Job Talk--No Discussant
March 29, 2024: No PTW--Spring Break/WPSA
April 5, 2024: No PTW--MPSA
April 12, 2024: No PTW
April 19, 2024: Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), “Reparations Unbound: Dilemmas of Dismantling Racial Injustice”
Co-sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Discussant: Hamni Park
April 26, 2024: Mauro Caraccioli (Virginia Tech), "Inverting the Encounter Paradigm: Blackness and (In)Visibility in Colonial Spanish America"
Co-sponsored with the Center for Early Modern Studies and the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power Lecture Series
Discussant: Tim Tennyson
May 3, 2024: No PTW