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
Introductory session

October 15, 2025
4 – 6 pm, Impact Forum DataX Space, Murphy Hall (special time and location)
Speaker: Colin Koopman (University of Oregon)
Title: Data Equals: Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy

 October 24, 2025
Speaker: Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago)
Title: A Democratic Theory of Truth
Discussant: Giulia Sissa (UCLA Department of Political Science)

WINTER 2026

January 30, 2026
Speaker: George Shulman (NYU)
Title: Patriarchy, Democracy, and the Dionysian: Thinking with and against Norman O. Brown
Discussant: Michael Mirer (UCLA Department of Political Science)

February 27, 2026
Speaker: Emily Nacol (University of Toronto)
Title: The Problem of Time Thrift and Critiques of Capitalist Discipline
Discussant: Shae Himmelberger (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 3, 2026
Speaker: Demetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge)
Title: Derrida’s Of Hospitality 30 Years Later
Discussant: Pasqualena Brucia Breitenfeld (UCLA Department of Political Science)

April 10, 2026
Speaker: Jeffrey Green (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Bob Dylan: Prophet without God
Discussant: Paul Taylor (UCLA Department of Philosophy)

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

May 11, 2026
Speaker: Emilee Chapman (Stanford University)
Title: Ethics for Activists: Disruption, Democracy, and the Practical Problems of Political Ethics