Fall 2007

October 1
“Dispositions of Man”
Yusuf Has, PoliSci @ The University of Chicago

October 8
“What Can Political Freedom Mean in a Multi-Cultural Democracy?”
Clarissa Hayward, PoliSci @ Washington University, St. Louis

October 15
“Epistemological Modesty within Contemporary Political Thought: A link between Hayek’s neoliberalism and Pettit’s republicanism”
Edwige Kacenelenbogen, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

October 22
“Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson on the Body Politic:
The Limits of Intellectual Influence?”

Cary Nederman, PoliSci @ Texas A&M University

October 29
“Rethinking Dover: The Role of Science Education in Liberal Society”
Susan Liebell, PoliSci @ St. Joseph’s University

November 5
Cancelled

November 12
“Rethinking the State (in IR Theory):
What We Can Learn from Schmitt and Weber”

Kyung-Hee Kim, Social Thought @ The University of Chicago

November 19
“Reinscribing Authority: Invoking the ‘Circle of Justice'”
Jennifer London, PoliSci @ The University of Chicago

November 26
“Hannah Arendt on Political Legitimacy without Philosophical Justification”
Wout Cornellissen, Social Thought @ The University of Chicago