We the People? In Support of Expatriates' Right to Political Participation
Avia Pasternak
University of Maryland
March 13, 2026 3:30PM E53-485
Workshop in Social and Political Theory
All MIT Faculty, students, and their guests are welcome. Please contact Prof. Bernardo Zacka with questions.
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States
Emilie Connolly
Brandeis University
March 6, 2026 3:30PM E53-485
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism
Keidrick Roy
Dartmouth College
November 21, 2025 3:30PM
November 21, 2025
3:30PM
Capital Ownership as Political Office
Yunhyae Kim
Princeton University
October 28, 2025 1:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Post Colony
Sandipto Dasgupta
The New School for Social Research
October 17, 2025 3:30PM E53-482 Millikan Room
A conversation around how emotions and the process of emotion regulation
Psychology Professor Amit Goldenberg (Harvard Business School) and Philosophy Professor Oded Na'aman (Hebrew University)
Harvard Business School and Hebrew University
February 12, 2024 2:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Structural Racism: Anti-Racist Struggles and the Role of Critical Theory
Robin Celikates
Freie Universität, Berlin
December 4, 2023 3:00PM
December 4, 2023
3:00PM
Discussion of Matthew Longo’s book The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
Matthew Longo
Leiden University
November 20, 2023 3:00PM
November 20, 2023
3:00PM
Presentation on Constitutional Ratification Without Reason by Professor Jeffrey Lenowitz
Response by Professor Sanford Levinson (UT Law) followed by Q&A
Jeffrey Lenowitz
Brandeis University
November 17, 2023 3:00PM
November 17, 2023
3:00PM
Truth, Lies and Freedom of Speech
Sarah Song
University of California, Berkeley
April 28, 2023 3:30PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Democracy and Solidarity in Housing Cooperatives
Margaret Kohn
University of Toronto
April 14, 2023 3:30PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Crisis and Conflict: Elements of a Theory of (Progressive) Social Change
Rahel Jaeggi
Humboldt University
March 24, 2023 3:30PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Land and Legibility: When Do Citizens Expect Secure Property Rights in Weak States?
Bonnie Honig
Brown University
December 9, 2022 3:30AM E53-482 Millikan Room
Timothy Pachirat (UMass Amherst, Political Science)
April 30, 2021 3:00PM
April 30, 2021
3:00PM
April 16, 2021
3:00PM
Life in a Bubble: The Embodied Senses on an Unshared Earth
Patchen Markell
Cornell University
March 26, 2021 3:00PM
March 26, 2021
3:00PM
Christian Burlesque? Thomas Hobbes's Scriptural Strategies
Professor Alison McQueen
Stanford University
March 12, 2021 3:00PM
March 12, 2021
3:00PM
The Machinery of Government
Joseph Heath
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto
November 19, 2020 1:00PM
November 19, 2020
1:00PM
CANCELLED: Margaret Kohn (University of Toronto)
March 20, 2020 3:00PM E53-482
Economists, Philosophers, and the Revival of Social Contract Theory, 1955-1975
Joel Isaac
University of Chicago
March 6, 2020 3:00PM E53-482
Urgency Without Emergency? Emergency Politics and its Alternatives
Jennifer Rubenstein
University of Virginia
December 6, 2019 3:00PM E53-482
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
Lisa Wedeen
University of Chicago
October 4, 2019 3:00PM E53-482
Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket
Joe Soss
University of Minnesota
September 11, 2019 4:00PM E53-482