1712, 2018

Lawrie Balfour explores freedom in the novels of Toni Morrison

Brennen Neeley/ December 17, 2018/ Political Theory Workshop

Brennan Neely is a junior philosophy major. People mill about and chat with others also dressed in collared shirts, jeans and the rolled-up sleeves of early evening. The room has an air of casual but unquestioned curiosity. We were waiting for Lawrie Balfour’s Political Theory Workshop in Duke’s Gross Hall. Balfour—a professor of politics at the University of Virginia—would turn us to Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning writer whose words have inspired contemporary novelists and comforted readers like me for

1104, 2018

Political Theory Workshop hosts Arash Abizadeh

Nora Hanagan/ April 11, 2018/ Political Theory Workshop

McGill University Professor Arash Abizadeh presented a paper entitled, “Representation, Bicameralism, and Sortition: Reconstituting the Senate as a Randomly Selected Citizen Assembly.” Professor Abizadeh’s specializes in both contemporary political theory and the history of political thought; his research focuses on questions of identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, as well as the relationship between rhetoric, passions and discourse. His work has been published in Political Theory, American Political Science Review, and numerous other journals. He also has a book, Hobbes and the

2802, 2018

Stephen Macedo: Political Theory Workshop – March 1, 2018

Nora Hanagan/ February 28, 2018/ Political Theory Workshop

Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2003), and Liberal Virtues: Citizen, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 1990).On March 1, Professor Stephen Macedo gave a talk entitled: “Regulating Offensive Expression: The Roles of Self-Censorship, Social Norms, and Civility.” Professor Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy

0412, 2017

Nancy Rosenblum: Political Theory Workshop – November 30, 2017

Nora Hanagan/ December 4, 2017/ Political Theory Workshop

On November 20 at 4:00 in Gross Hall 230E, Nancy Rosenblum spoke about her latest book, Good Neighbors: the Democracy of Everyday Life in America (Princeton, 2016). Nancy Rosenblum is the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. She is the author of numerous books, including On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship (Princeton, 2008), and Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (Princeton, 1998).