Unless otherwise noted, workshops meet in Bunche Hall 4357 – (Friday, 4 – 6 pm)

Faculty coordinators: Natasha Piano, Tejas Parasher

Graduate student assistants: Joshua Campbell, Qi Jing

For access to papers, please contact Belinda Sunnu (bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu)

2023-24 Schedule

Fall 2023

November 29, 2023
Introductory session (12:30 – 1:30 pm)

December 1, 2023
Speaker: Valentina Moro (DePaul University)
Title: “Feminist Methodologies for a Politics of Care: Narration, Institution, Performance”
Discussant: Nicolette D’Angelo (UCLA Department of Classics)

Winter 2024

January 19, 2024
Speaker: Daniela Cammack (UC Berkeley)
Title: “Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Homonoia in Ancient Greece”
Discussant: Sean Messarra (UCLA Department of History)

February 9, 2024
Speaker: Nicholas Muench (UCLA Department of Political Science)
Title: “Meditation, Mediation, and al-Ghazali’s Critique of Taqlid.”
Discussant: Spenser Kussin-Gika (UCLA Department of Political Science)

March 1, 2024
Speaker: Emma Saunders-Hastings (Ohio State University)
Title: “Frederick Douglass on Political Equivocation.”
Discussant: Michael Mirer (UCLA Department of Political Science)

Spring 2024

April 1, 2024
Speaker: Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong)
Title: “Confucian Meritocracy and Passive Virtues”
Special Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Bunche Hall 4357)

April 12th, 2024
Speaker: Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin and Thomas Mann Fellow)
Title: “Paradoxes of Solidarity”
Special Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm (Bunche Hall 4357)

April 19, 2024
Speaker: Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
Title: The Sovereignty of Chance: Can Lottocracy Save Democracy?”
Discussant: Qi Jing (UCLA Department of Political Science)

May 3, 2024
Speaker: Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven)
Title: “A View from Nowhere: Raphael Hythlodaeus’ Utopia.”
Special Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Bunche Hall 4357)

May 17, 2024
Speaker: Joseph Fishkin (UCLA School of Law)
Title: “Judicial Legitimacy and Political Partisanship.”
Discussant: Thomas Byrne (UCLA School of Law)

June 7, 2024
Speaker: Anthony Dean Norton (UCLA Dept. of Political Science)
Title: “Unlikely Bedfellows: Lenin, Wilson, and National Self-Determination as the Imposition of Political Personhood.”
Discussant: Tomi Kolapo (UCLA Department of Political Science)