Past speakers
Speakers in the Colloquium present works in progress drawn from their current research.
We post titles and papers close to the presentation date.
2016-17
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2016 | Victor MUÑIZ-FRATICELLI | Professor of Law and Political Science at McGill University |
The Law of Ecclesiastical Politics: A Pluralist Approach |
| October 28, 2016 | Alison Dundes Renteln | USC Dornsife |
The Human Right to Photograph |
| Novemver 25, 2016 | Margaret Moore | Professor in the Political Studies department at Queen’s University |
The Taking of Territory and the Wrongs of Colonialism |
| January 20, 2017 | Brenna Bhandar | University of London |
Racial Regimes of Ownership: Thinking Through Property with Cedric J. Robinson |
| February 24, 2017 | Patricia Williams | Columbia University |
On rights and reality: from stated exceptions to states of exception |
| March 17, 2017 | Avery Kolers | Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Social Change minor at the University of Louisville |
The Territorial Rights of Animals: Zoopolis and Beyond |
2015-16
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 18, 2015 | Steve Gardiner | Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment University of Washington, Seattle | Climate Justice vs. Climate Extortion |
| October 23, 2015 | Joseph Carens | Professor of Political Science University of Toronto |
Irregular Migrants, refugees, and Open Borders: Three issues in the Ethics of Migration |
| December 4, 2015 | Nicole Roughan | Assistant Professor Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore |
Legal Officials at the Heart of Legal Theory: the Practice of Role-Morality |
| January 29, 2016 | Jeanne Morefield | Professor of Politics Whitman College |
Empire, Exile and the Presence of the Past: Edward Said and Global Justice |
| March 4, 2016 | Robin Celikates | Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy University of Amsterdam |
Transnational Disobedience? Politicizing Irregular Migration |
| March 18, 2016 | Simone Chambers | Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine |
An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation: the Case of the Rhetoric |
2014-15
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 3, 2014 | Jessica Silbey | Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston |
Intellectual Property and Constitutional Equality |
| November 7, 2014 | Peer Zumbansen | Professor of Transnational Law Director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute King's Collge London |
Whose Rule of Law? Arguments For and Against Its Transnational Diffusion |
| November 28, 2014 | Charles Taylor | Professor Emeritus McGill University |
Some Crises of Democracy |
| February 6, 2015 | Cressida J. Heyes | Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality Professor of Political Science and Philosophy University of Alberta |
Anaesthetics of Existence: Temporality after Discipline |
| February 27, 2015 | Rainer Baubock | Professor of Social and Political Theory Department of Political and Social Sciences European University Institute |
Democratic Purposes of Inclusion and Principles of Democratic Membership |
| March 20, 2015 | Ruth Chang | Professor, Department of Philosophy Rutgers University |
Comparativism: The Structure of Practical Reason |
| April 27, 2015 | Rainer Forst | Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy Goethe-University |
Legitimacy, Democracy, and Justice: On Reflexivity of Normative Orders |
2013-14
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 27, 2013 | Jim Tully | Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy University of Victoria |
A Presentation and Discussion of Dipesh Chakarabaty's "The Anthropocene and Its Challenge to Humanist Thought" |
| October 18, 2013 | Anthony Simon Laden | Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy Unviersity of Illinois at Chicago |
The Gift of Trust: How to Get There from Here |
| November 29, 2013 | Shlomi Segall | Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Visiting Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto |
In Defense of Strong Egalitarianism |
| January 24, 2014 | Janine Brodie | Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance University of Alberta |
Neoliberalism, Inequality and the Politics of Austerity |
| February 28, 2014 | Fonna Forman | Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, San Diego |
The Architecture of Civic Freedom |
| March 21, 2014 | Ingrid Robeyns | Professor of Practical Philosophy Department of Philosophy Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Having too much |
2012-13
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 5, 2012 | Tim Mitchell | Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Columbia University |
Economentality: How the Future Entered Government |
| November 9, 2012 | Sudhir Krishnaswamy | Professor of Political Science Azim Premji University |
Directive Principles as Underenforced Norms: The Social Question in Indian Constitutionalism |
| November 30, 2012 | Martin Loughlin | Martin and Kathleen Crane / LAPA Fellow, Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton Program in Law and Public Affairs Professor of Public Law, London School of Economics and Political Science |
The Concept of Constituent Power |
| January 25, 2013 | Jeff McMahan | Department of Philosophy Rutgers University |
What Rights May be Defended by Means of War? |
| March 8, 2013 | Rosemary Coombe | Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies York University cross-appointed Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law (Graduate Programme) Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought |
Minding your Difference: Standardization, Heritage Politics and Governmentality |
| April 5, 2013 | Dipesh Chakrabarty | Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations & Faculty Fellow Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory University of Chicago |
The Anthropocene and Its Challenge to Humanist Thought |
2011-12
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2011 |
Jutta Brunnée Stephen J. Toope |
Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law President and Vice-Chancellor |
Constructivism and International Law |
| November 25, 2011 | Mick Dodson | Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies Professor of Law Australian National University |
“But we have stayed strong and true to our culture.” The native title experience - an Australian example |
| January 20, 2012 | Sally Engle Merry | Professor of Anthropology, Law and Society New York University |
Seductive Quantification: The Politics of Measuring Human Rights |
| March 2, 2012 | Akeel Bilgrami | Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought Columbia University |
Gandhi's Radicalism |
| March 23, 2012 | Gary Francione | Distinguished Professor of Law Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy Rutgers University |
Killing Animals |
2010-11
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2010 | Simone Chambers | Professor of Political Science University of Toronto |
Secularism minus Exclusion: Developing a Religion Friendly Idea of Public Reaso |
| November 5, 2010 | Melissa Williams | Professor of Political Science Director, Centre for Ethics University of Toronto |
Linking Fates Together: Democratic Imaginaries in Global Public Space |
| December 3, 2011 | Linda Zerilli | Professor of Political Science Director, Center for Gender Studies University of Chicago |
Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment: Farewell to Public Reason |
| January 28, 2011 | Daniel Weinstock | Professor of Philosophy Centre de Recherche en Éthique Université de Montréa |
On Compromise |
| March 4, 2011 | Kok-Chor Tan | Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania |
Two Approaches to Global Justice |
| 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, Yale University |
Love, Innocence and the State |
2009-10
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 18, 2009 | Duncan Ivison | Professor and Head of School, Philosophy and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney |
What is a Practice of Liberty? |
| October 30, 2009 | Katherine Gibson | Professor, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy University of Western Sydney |
Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for 'Other Worlds' |
| November 27, 2009 | Charles W. Mills | John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy Northwestern University | Deracializing Rawls |
| January 29, 2010 | Bonnie Honig | Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation |
Antigone's Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Politics of Humanism |
| February 26, 2010 | Tom Christiano | Professor of Philosophy and Law University of Arizona |
Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy |
2008-09
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 26, 2008 | Rajeev Bhargava | Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi |
What is Political Secularism and What Can We Learn from its Indian Version? |
| October 29, 2008 | Quentin Skinner | Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Queen Mary College, University of London Formerly the: Regius Professor of Modern History Faculty of History, Cambridge University and Fellow of Christ's College |
A Genealogy of Liberty |
| December 5, 2008 | Seana Shiffrin | Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law UCLA |
Inducing Deliberation |
| January 23, 2009 | Eamonn Callan | Pigott Family Professor, School of Education Stanford University |
The Better Angels of our Nature: Patriotism and Dirty Hands |
| March 6, 2009 | David Scott | Anthropology Columbia University |
Norms of Self-Determination |
| March 27, 2009 | Arthur Ripstein | Law and Philosophy University of Toronto |
Roads to Freedom |
2007-08
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 5, 2007 | Gerry Mackie | Political Science University of California at San Diego |
On the Expressive Theory of Voting |
| November 2, 2007 | Wojciech Sadurski | Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law European University Institute and The Faculty of Law, University of Sydney |
Political Equality and Majority Rule |
| November 30, 2007 | Gavin Anderson | Senior Lecturer School of Law, University of Glasgow |
Towards a New Constitutional Knowledge: Beyond the state, or beyond modernity? |
| January 25, 2008 | Debra Satz | Director, Barbara and Bowen McCoy Program in Ethics in Society, Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, Political Science, Stanford University | Voluntary Slavery and the Limits of the Market |
| February 29, 2008 | Tariq Modood | Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy University of Bristol |
Multiculturalism and Secularism |
| March 14, 2008 | Rainer Forst | Professor of Political Theory Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt |
Two Pictures of Justice |
2006-07
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 6, 2006 | Ted Parson | Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. | Feasible improvements: strategic behavior and technological uncertainty in environmental regulation |
| October 20, 2006 | Rae Langton | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge | Speaker's Freedom and Maker's Knowledge: The Case of Pornography |
| December 1, 2006 | Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison | Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledge |
| January 26, 2007 | Kim Scheppele |
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University |
The International State of Emergency: Challenges to Constitutionalism after September 11 |
| March 2, 2007 | Philip Pettit | Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University | The What and the How of Democratic Control |
| March 23,2007 | Michael Blake |
Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance at the University of Washington |
Political Liberalism Abroad |
2005-06
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2005 | Jim Tully | Professor of Political Science, Law, Philosophy, Indigenous Governance University of Victoria |
On the Nature of the "New" Imperialism |
| October 28, 2005 | Jeffrey L. Stout | Professor of Religion Princeton University |
On Our Interest in Getting Things Right: Pragmatism without Narcissism |
| December 2, 2005 | Sherene Razack | Professor, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto |
How is White Supremacy Embodied?: Sexualized Racial Violence at Abu Ghraib |
| January 27, 2006 | Anna Yeatman |
Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney |
The Politics of Individuality |
| March 31, 2006 | Nicola Lacey | Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Adjunct Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra | Character, Capacity, Outcome: Towards a framework for assessing the shifting pattern of criminal responsibility in modern English law |
2004-05
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2004 | Rebecca Tsosie | Lincoln Professor of Native American Law & Ethics, Executive Director, Indian Legal Program Affiliate Professor of the American Indian Studies Program, Arizona State University |
Acknowledging the Past to Heal the Future: The Role of Reparations for Native Nations |
| October 29, 2004 | Mark E. Warren | Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia Formerly Professor of Government and CDATS Research Fellow, Georgetown University |
Nature and Logic of Bad Social Capital |
| November 19, 2004 | Iris Marion Young | Professor of Political Science University of Chicago |
Responsibility and Historical Injustice: Application of a Social Connection Model |
| January 28, 2005 | Neil Walker |
Professor of European Law at the European University Institute. |
An Agreement to agree to disagree: Europe's constitutional dividend |
| March 4, 2005 | Rebecca Tsosie | Lincoln Professor of Native American Law & Ethics, Executive Director, Indian Legal Program Affiliate Professor of the American Indian Studies Program, Arizona State University |
Acknowledging the Past to Heal the Future: The Role of Reparations for Native Nations |
| April 7, 2005 | Cheryl Misak | Professor of Philosophy Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean University of Toronto at Mississauga |
Truth and the Deliberative Virtues |
2003-04
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Colloquium title |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2003 | David Ley | Trudeau Foundation Fellow, former UBC Director of the Metropolis Project and Canada Research Chair in Geography at the University of British Columbia |
Forgetting Postmodernism? Recuperating a social history of local knowledge |
| October 31, 2003 | Uma Narayan | Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College | Coercing Women for their Own Good? Women's Choices, Criminal Sanctions and the State |
| November 28, 2003 | Jennifer Nedelsky |
Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto |
Rights and the Fully Human Self |
| February 6, 2004 | Gerald Postema |
Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Of Jazz, Jokes and Jurists: Reasoning in the First Person Plural |
| February 27, 2004 | James Boyd White | L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan | Free Speech and Valuable Speech: Silence, Dante, and the "Marketplace of Ideas" |
| April 2, 2004 | James Fishkin | Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication, Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University |
Who Speaks for the People? Deliberation and Public Consultation |