Follow our Seminar Series as we take a look at some of the most pressing intellectual and political questions of our day with guest scholars from around the globe. The Department of Politics is internationally recognized as one of the leading sites for the study of politics informed by a diverse range of critical intellectual approaches.
Fall 2022-2023 Seminar Series
Watch for details on our upcoming 2022-2023 Seminar Series.
Past Series
Fall 2020 Seminar Series
Thea Riofrancos
Date: Monday, September 21, 2020
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
Johanna Fernández
Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: The Young Lords: A Radical History
Robert Nichols
Date: Monday, November 2, 2020
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
Anthony Farley
Date: Monday, November 9, 2020
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Trump's Undead Americans
Sheri Berman
Date: Friday, December 4, 2020
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: The Decline of Social Democracy, the Rise of Populism and Democratic Decay
Athina Karatzogianni
Date: Monday, December 7, 2020
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Sleeping on a Volcano: The Ideologization Process on Digital Networks
Winter 2021 Seminar Series
Aaron Jaffe
Date: Monday, January 11, 2021
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: The Theoretical Grounds and Entailments of Social Reproduction Theory
Adom Getachew
Date: Monday, January 18, 2021
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Quinn Slobodian
Date: Monday, February 1, 2021
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Elite Losers: Trump, Steel, and the Backlash Against Neoliberal Constitutionalism from Above
Ashley Bohrer
Date: Monday, February 8, 2021
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: Beyond Flow: Capitalism, Confinement, and Captivity
Ali Rlza Güngen
Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Topic: Turkey's Public Banks amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case of Authoritarian Crisis Management
Enzo Traverso
Date: Friday, April 9, 2021
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Topic: "The Locomotives of History": Historicizing Revolution
Fall 2021 Seminar Series
Heather Berg
Date: Friday, October 29, 2021
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Christy Thornton
Date: Friday, November 5, 2021
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
Ángela Vergara
Date: Friday, November 26, 2021
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile
Winter 2022 Seminar Series
Blair Fix
Date: Friday, January 21, 2022
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: Redistributing Income Through Hierarchy
Eli Friedman
Date: Friday, January 28, 2022
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás in conversation with Jeffery R. Webber
Date: Friday, February 4, 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World
Katy Fox-Hodess
Date: Friday, February 11, 2022
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: Dockworker Power and Capitalist Totality: A Critique of the Power Resources Approach
Julian Germann
Date: Friday, March 4, 2022
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Topic: Unwitting Architect: German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism
Daniel Andrés López
Date: Friday, March 11, 2022
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Topic: Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute