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May 13

Next Workshop Monday May 27

Please join us for the final meeting of the Social Theory Workshop for the academic year, Monday May 27:

“Civilizing’ the Colonial Subject: Servitude, Slavery, and State Formation in Colonial South Carolina before the Stono Rebellion”
Daragh Grant, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago

The workshop will be immediately followed by the fourth annual Social Theory Workshop BBQ. To accommodate both events, the workshop will take place at 4pm, with the BBQ to follow. Food and drink will be provided. Feel free to bring extra beverages.

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

Please take special note of the TIME and DAY: Monday May 27 at 4pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)

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May 13

Next Workshop May 16

Please join us for the next meeting of the Social Theory Workshop, Thursday May 16

“The Nation-State Is Flat: Cadastral Mapping and Theories of State Formation”
Alvaro Santana-Acuña, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)

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Apr 13

Next Workshop: May 2 Ashleigh Campi

Please join us for the next meeting of the Social Theory Workshop, Thursday May 2     

“Can political theory think economic subjects? Psychoanalytic Contributions to a Theory of Neoliberalism”

Ashleigh Campi, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)

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Apr 13

Workshop April 18

Tyson Leuchter, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Chicago:

“The Illimitable Right: The Marché à Terme, Property, and Political Authority in Napoleonic France.”

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)

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Apr 13

Spring Workshop schedule [revised, again!]

Social Theory Workshop Spring 2013: All workshops will be held on Thursdays at 6pm (except our last session which will also be a Memorial Day BBQ) in Wilder House (5811 S Kenwood Ave). All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

April 4: Alan Milchman, Lecturer, Department of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) “Modern Social Theory and the Project of the Abolition of Labor”

April 18: Tyson Leuchter, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Chicago: “The Illimitable Right: The Marché à Terme, Property, and Political Authority in Napoleonic France.”

May 2: Ashleigh Campi, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago.      “Can political theory think economic subjects? Psychoanalytic Contributions to a Theory of Neoliberalism”

May 16: Alvaro Santana-Acuña, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University. “The Nation-State Is Flat: Cadastral Mapping and Theories of State Formation”

Monday May 27 (time TBD):  Daragh Grant, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, “Civilizing’ the Colonial Subject: Servitude, Slavery, and State Formation in Colonial South Carolina before the Stono Rebellion” Last STW session of the year and our fourth annual BBQ!

 

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Apr 13

Next Workshop- April 4

Please join us for the next meeting of the Social Theory Workshop, (THIS) Thursday April 4

“Modern Social Theory and the Project of the Abolition of Labor”

Alan Milchman, Lecturer, Department of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)  

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)

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Mar 13

Next Workshop: March 7-Atiya Khan

“The Failure of Democracy in Pakistan: Vicissitudes of Leftist Politics, 1940-1971″

March 7 –Atiya Khan PhD Candidate, History, The University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”
All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)
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Feb 13

Next workshop: February 14 –Jake Werner

“The Remaking of Shanghai’s Urban Space, 1949-1958”

February 14 –Jake Werner, PhD Candidate, History, The University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”
All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)
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Jan 13

Next Workshop Jan 31 David Spreen

“The Class Enemy Across the River Jordan: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Capitalism and Place in the West German New Left 1965-1970″

David Spreen, PhD Candidate, The University of Michigan

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)

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Dec 12

Winter Workshop Schedule

The Winter 2013 Social Theory Workshop Schedule

January  10 – Wendy Brown

Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, The University of California, Berkeley

“Citizens Sacrificed: Austerity Politics and the Inversion of the Neoliberal Social Contract”

Reception to follow. Advance registration required. Email stacie3ct@gmail.com
This event is co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) and thePolitical Theory Workshop

January 31 – David Spreen, PhD Candidate, The University of Michigan

“The Class Enemy Across the River Jordan: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Capitalism and Place in the West German New Left 1965-1970″

February 14 –Jake Werner, PhD Candidate, History, The University of Chicago

“The Remaking of Shanghai’s Urban Space, 1949-1958”

February 21 – Harry Harootunian

Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University and Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Studies, New York University

“De-provincializing Marxism”

March 7 – Atiya Khan, PhD Candidate, Political Science, The University of Chicago

“The 1968 Student-Labor Uprising in Pakistan: The Limits of the Politics of Audacity and Militancy.”

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”
All events will take place at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave)
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