Political Theory Workshop

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will be held in the Eldersveld Room (5760 Haven Hall) on Fridays from 2:00-3:30. If you have any questions or need accommodations in order to attend, please don't hesitate to reach out to our coordinators, Annie Heffernan (akheff@umich.edu) and Andy Murphy (murphyan@umich.edu).

January 26th: Sid Simpson, Associate Professor, Sewanee: University of the South
"It Was Always Blood and Soil: Eco-Fascism and the Racial Capitalocene"

February 9th: Melynda Price, Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Women & Gender and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
"Afterlife of Black Motherhood: Clementine Barfield and Anti-Violence Organizing Among Black Mothers of Murdered Children in Detroit"

February 16th: Jess Hasper, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Michigan
"Satyagraha 'On the Spot': Revisiting the Reception of a Travelling Theory in the Jim Crow South"

March 8th: Elena Gambino, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
"Medical Intervention: Research as 'Waystation' in the Midcentury Gay Press"

March 15th: Robin Celikates, Professor of Social Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
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March 22nd: Patrick Peralta and Qian Qian Ng, PhD Students in Political Science, University of Michigan
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April 5th: Katrina Forrester, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University (Virtual)
"Marxist Feminism in and Against the State"

April 12th: Loay Alarab, PhD Student, University of Michigan
"The Figure of the Fighter in Arab Anticolonialism Archives"

April 19th: Ekaterina Olson Shipyatsky, PhD Student, University of Michigan
"Geographizing and Temporalizing the Past: Museums as Theorists of Violence"