UCLA Political Theory Workshop – 2025/26

Faculty Coordinators: Tejas Parasher, Natasha Piano

Unless otherwise noted, workshops meet in Bunche Hall 4357 – Friday, 12– 1:30 pm.

FALL 2025

October 10, 2025
Workshop Introductory Session

October 15, 2025
Special date, time, and location
Time: 4-6 pm
Location: DataX Impact Forum, Murphy Hall
Speaker: Colin Koopman (University of Oregon)
Title: Data Equals: Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy

October 24, 2025
Speaker: Davide Panagia (UCLA Department of Political Science)
Title: “Politics, Media, and Aesthetic Judgment: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Discovery of Automated Intellects”
Discussant: Shae Himmelberger (UCLA Department of Political Science)

WINTER 2026

January 30, 2026
Speaker: Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago)
Title: A Democratic Theory of Truth
Discussant: Giulia Sissa (UCLA Department of Political Science)

February 27, 2026
Speaker: Tejas Parasher (UCLA Department of Political Science)
Title: “Dadabhai Naoroji on Representative Government”
Discussant: Tomi Kolapo (UCLA Department of Political Science)

March 13, 2026
Speaker: Michael Mirer (UCLA Department of Political Science)
Title: “Disrupting the Circuits of Violence: Abolition as Anti-Fascism in Angela Davis’ Thought”
Discussant: Spenser Kussin-Gika (UCLA Department of Political Science)

SPRING 2026

*April 23, 2026*
E. Victor Wolfenstein Lecture in Political Theory
Speaker: Kimberlé Crenshaw (UCLA Law and Columbia Law)
Title: The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice

May 8, 2026
Speaker: Peter Stacey (UCLA Department of History)
Title: The State in Machiavelli
Discussant: Stefania Tutino (UCLA Department of History)

May 11, 2026
Speaker: John Medearis (UC Riverside)
Title: TBC