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Speakers in the Colloquium present works in progress drawn from their current research.
We post titles and papers close to the presentation date.

When and Where?
All seminars take place on Fridays in the Fraser Building (Law) Room 152 at 2:30pm.
Pre-seminars are held one week in advance in the same room at 12:30pm (except for the preseminar for Kok-Chor Tan's seminar, which will take place two weeks in advance).

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October 1, 2010

Simone Chambers

Professor of Political Science
University of Toronto

Colloquium Title

"Secularism minus Exclusion: Developing a Religion Friendly Idea of Public Reason"

Pre-Seminar Readings

1) "Contents and Introduction"
2) "Chapter 4: Reciprocity and Accountability"
(Pre-seminar: Friday, September 24
Fraser Building, Room 152 -  12:30 - 2:00)

Colloquium speakers 2010

 

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November 5, 2010

Melissa Williams

Professor of Political Science

Director, Centre for Ethics
University of Toronto

Colloquium Title

"Linking Fates Together: Democratic Imaginaries in Global Public Space"

Pre-Seminar Readings

1) "Citizenship as Agency within Communities of Shared Fate"
2) "Nonterritorial Boundaries of Citizenship"
(Pre-seminar: Friday, October 29
Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm)

Melissa Williams

 

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December 3, 2010

Linda Zerilli

Professor of Political Science

Director, Center for Gender Studies

University of Chicago

Colloquium Title

"Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment: Farewell to Public Reason"

Pre-Seminar Reading

"'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt"
(Pre-seminar: Friday, November 26
Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm)

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January 28, 2011

Daniel Weinstock

Professor of Philosophy

Centre de Recherche en Éthique
Université de Montréal

Colloquium Title

"On Compromise"

Pre-Seminar Readings

1) "Principled Compromise and Abortion Controversy"
2) "Is 'Identity' a Danger to Democracy"
(Pre-seminar: Friday, January 21
Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 2:00 pm)

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March 4, 2011

Kok-Chor Tan

Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania

Colloquium Title

"Two Approaches to Global Justice"

Pre-Seminar Reading

"The Problem of Global Justice"
Optional: "Cosmopolitanism, Justice and Institutions"

(Pre-seminar: Friday, February 18
Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 1:30 pm
Please note: this pre-seminar is two weeks in advance of the main seminar)

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March 18, 2011

Paul Kahn

Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and

Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for
International Human Rights
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Yale University

Colloquium Title

"Love, Innocence and the State"
Optional reading: for those interested in the broader book from which the main text is drawn, see: the preface and chapter 1

Pre-Seminar Reading

"Introduction: Why Political Theology Again" and "Definition of Sovereignty"

(Pre-seminar: Friday, March 11
Fraser Building, Room 152, 12:30 to 1:30 pm)

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