October 3
FIRST SESSION — Introductory Meeting
October 10
“Leo Strauss: Critique and Defense of Liberalism”
Nathan Tarcov, University of Chicago
October 17
“‘Civilizing’ the Colonial Subject: Servitude, Slavery, and State Formation in Colonial South Carolina”
Daragh Grant, University of Chicago
October 24
NO SESSION
October 31
“Empire, State, and Communicative Action”
Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
November 7
“We Citizens”
Jacqueline Stevens, Northwestern University
November 14
“Normal Emergencies, Police Power, and Constitutional Judgment”
Leonard Feldman, Hunter College, CUNY
November 21
“Edmund Burke and Fitzjames Stephen on Accountability in British India”
Part I, Part II
David Bromwich, Yale University
November 28
“Spaces of Invention: Foucault and the Question of Transformative Institutions”
Kevin Thompson, DePaul University
December 5
“Organizing Voice: Politics in Asylums, Prisons, and Homeless Encampments”
Christopher Berk, University of Chicago