March 26
“Democratic Careening”
Dan Slater, University of Chicago
April 2
“Responsiveness, or the Weight of Recognition”
J.J. McFadden, University of Chicago
April 9
“‘The Magical Influence of Custom’: Democracy and Conformity in Mill’s On Liberty“
Jennie Ikuta, Brown University
April 16
“Fichte’s Grounding of Rights Independently of Morality”
Nedim Nomer, Sabanci University, Istanbul
April 23
“A New Proviso for Rawlsian Public Reason”
Ryan Long, University of Chicago Law
April 30
“Secular Powers: Humanity and Humility in Modern Political Thought”
Julie Cooper, University of Chicago
May 7
“Leo Strauss’s Religious Rhetoric (1924-1938)”
Thomas Meyer, Ludwig Maximilians-University, Munich
May 9
SPECIAL SESSION: “American Neoliberalism: The Birth of Biopolitics Lectures” with François Ewald and Gary Becker in Foster 505
Lectures 9 and 10
Lecture 11 (Optional)
May 14
“What was Politics to the Denisovan?”
Kennan Ferguson, UW-Milwaukee
May 21
“Satyrs, Slaves, and Goddesses: Ponocracy in Plato’s Republic”
Christina Tarnopolsky, McGill University