Social and Political Thought Workshop Series
The Social and Political Thought Workshop Series is a series of bi-weekly lunchtime workshops that are held over the entire academic year. Each workshop features a guest speaker who addresses a topic in the wide range of multi-disciplinary areas that deal with social and political life. Papers are distributed and read in advance of the workshop meeting, allowing plenty of time for group discussion. Guest speakers have come from such fields as philosophy, political science, law, economics, sociology, and divinity studies. Past topics have included global justice, identity politics, religion and public reason, democratic theory, privacy, due process, domestic violence, legal positivism, and genetic engineering. All members and friends of the Vanderbilt community are invited to attend. For further information, please contact: Larry May, Marilyn Friedman or Robert Talisse.
Spring 2012
Note: All sessions are still at 12:00-1:30, but the location changes nearly every week.
January 11
Cricket Keating (Ohio State, Women’s Studies)
“Occupy the Social Contract: Participatory Contract Theory”
Commentator: Stacy Clifford (Vanderbilt, Political Science)
12-1:30 Commons 235
January 18
Mark Osiel (University of Iowa, Law)
“The Right to Do Grave Wrong”
Commentator – William James Booth (Vanderbilt, Pol. Sci. and Phil.)
12-1:30 Bass Barry Sims Room (?)
January 25
Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado, Philosophy)
“We Fight for Roses Too: Time-Use and Global Gender Justice”
Commentator: Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt, Pol. Sci., and Philosophy)
12-1:30 Commons 235
February 8
Ann Cudd (University of Kansas, Philosophy and Women’s Studies)
Commentator: Marilyn Friedman (Vanderbilt, Philosophy and Pol. Sci.)
12-1:30 Bass Barry Sims room (?)
February 22
Paddy McQueen (Queen’s University-Belfast, humanities post doc)
“Subject to Recognition: Axel Honneth, Judith Butler, and the Politics of
the Self”
Commentator: Sandra Skene (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
12-1:30 Bass Barry Sims Room (?)
March 15
Dale Jamieson (New York University, Philosophy)
Commentator – Rebecca Tuvel (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
12-1:30 Bass Barry Sims Room (?)
March 29
Gary Jaeger (Vanderbilt, Philosophy and the Writing Studio)
“The Failure of Public Reason to Provide Reasons to Overcome Oppression”
Commentator: Seth Mayne (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
12-1:30 Commons 363
April 12
Rebecca Tuvel (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
Commentator – Andrea Pitts (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
12-1:30 Commons 349
April 26
Melinda Hall (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
“Genetic Determinism is Still a Problem for Bioethics: Synecdoche and
Stigma”
Commentator - Amy McKiernan (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
12-1:30 Commons 349