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David Schmidtz. RGCS Lecture. November 7, 2023
Sean Ingham. RGCS Lecture. March 20, 2025
Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars workshop. April 24-25, 2025
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Past RGCS events
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RGCS Lecture Series and Debates
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Kevin Elliott, Lecturer in Ethics Politics & Economics, Yale. "Democracy for Busy People." March 14, 2024
Joseph Carens, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. "Reality and Political Theory." February 2024
Emily Nacol, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. "A 'More Onerous Citizenship': Political Theory in Plague Time." January 18, 2024
Kevin Vallier, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. "From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution: The Early Modern Roots of Radical Anti-liberalism." October 26, 2023.
Ryan听Griffiths. Lecturer in Political Science, 香蕉视频. "Adam Smith's 'Coarse听Clay' Political Realism." Response by听Shal Marriott. September 14, 2023,
Ryan Muldoon, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo. "Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, and Discovery.鈥� April 6, 2023.
Asha Rangappa, Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University. 鈥淧residential Paradox: Reconciling Executive Accountability with Prosecutorial Independence.鈥澨齁anuary 26, 2023
Jonathan Rodden, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.听鈥淧olitical Geography, Polarization, and Representation鈥� October 20, 2022.
Sharon Krause, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of Political Science, Brown University. "Montesquieu, Arendt, and the听Constitutio听Libertatis:听Relational Power, Plural Freedom." October 13, 2022.
Robert Sparling, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Ottawa. 鈥淏etween Corruption and Integrity: State Identity and the Paradox of National Debt鈥� April 14, 2022
Dale Turner, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. '鈥淲ords are Deeds鈥�, Indigenous spirituality and the limits of language' March 17, 2022
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All of the听events in 2021 were听delivered remotely due to COVID restrictions
- Melissa Schwartzberg, Silver Professor of Politics, New York University "Constitutionalism and Local Knowledge: From the Black Death to COVID"听April 29, 2021
- Richard Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/ Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science, and Chiara Codelli, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, debating "Must Churches Be Democratic?"听March 25, 2021
- Michelle Schwarze, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison: "Sympathetic Resentment and Injustice in Liberal Societies"听March 11, 2021
- Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University, and "The Ethicist" columnist, New York Times Magazine: "What About The Workers?"听February 25, 2021
- Teresa Bejan, Associate Professor of Political Theory, Oriel College, Oxford and Visiting Fulbright Chair, McGill: "Equality Before Egalitarianism"听February 4, 2021
- Michael C. Munger, Professor of Political Science, Duke University: "Is Capitalism Sustainable?", January 21, 2021
Helena Rosenblatt, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 鈥淕ermaine de Sta毛l, Benjamin Constant, and the foundations of liberalism.鈥� November 7, 2019.
Kimberly Clausing, Reed College.听"The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital,"听October 24, 2019
Teresa Bejan, Oriel College, Oxford University. "Equal Speech (In Public)." March 14, 2019
Turkuler Isiksel, Columbia University. "What Rights Do Corporations Have, And Why?" November 8, 2018
Henry Farrell, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and Steven Teles, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, debate "Market Liberalism and Social Democracy: How Big Is The Gap?"听April 5, 2018
Abner Greene, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law, Fordham University. "The Dilemma of Liberal Pluralism." March 22, 2018
David Ciepley, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Denver.听"The Chartered Corporation as a Governance Technology: Colonial Empire, Constitutional State, and Business Firm"
John Ferejohn, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, New York University. "Democratic Constitutionalism: A Deliberative Theory." March 23, 2017
Leigh Jenco, Associate Professor in Political Theory, London School of Economics. "Chinese Colonial Discourse in Comparative Perspective." February 16, 2017
Jack Jackson, Assistant Professor of Politics, Whitman College. "Law Without Future."听November 17, 2016.
Cecile Fabre, Oxford, and Eric Mack, Tulane.听"Debate: Individualism, Liberty, and Self-Ownership."听March 31, 2016.
Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan.听"Bottom-Up Federalism: How the States are Changing the Tenor of American Public Policy and Rights."听February 4, 2016.
Phillip Lagass茅, University of Ottawa.听 "The Drifting Canadian Crown: Institutional Change and Judicial Interpretations of the Monarchy."听November 26, 2015.
Richard Boyd, Georgetown University.听"Immigration and Justice: Citizenship, Capabilities, and the Pitfalls of Exclusion."听November 12, 2015.听
Laurel Weldon, Purdue University.听 "The Logic of Gender Justice:A Global Analysis of Women's Rights."October 29, 2015.
Jennifer Rubenstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Virginia: "Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs."听 March 19, 2015.
Erin Delaney, Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, Northwestern University: "Precarious Power: Judicial Legitimacy in Comparative Perspective."听 November 6, 2014.
Donald L. Horowitz, "Federalism for Severely Divided Societies: Possibilities and Pathologies."听 Thursday September 18, 2014.
Debate: Chandran Kukathas, Political Theory, London School of Economics, and Kit Wellman, Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis. 听Debate: "Should Borders Be Open?" Thursday April 3, 2014听
Ilya Somin, Law, George Mason University:听鈥淒emocracy and Political Ignorance.鈥澨�Thursday January 9, 2014.听
Naomi Lamoreaux, Economics and History, Yale University:听 鈥淐ivil Society and Organizational History.鈥� Thursday, November 14, 2013.
Gerald Gaus, Philosophy, University of Arizona:听"Liberalism's Unsuccessful Attempt to Insulate the Religious from the Secular."听Thursday, October 24, 2013.
Debra Satz, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, Stanford University, and Matt Zwolinski, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego. Debate: "Where are the Moral Limits of Markets?" April 11, 2013.
James Gardner, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad SUNY Distinguished Professor of Civil Justice, SUNY-Buffalo Law School: "鈥淪ubnational Constitutions and the Struggle over Constitutional Meaning."听 November 15, 2012.
RGCS Lecture: John Tomasi, Professor of Political Science, Brown University: "Free Market Fairness."听 November 1, 2012.
Marrett Lecture/ RGCS Lecture: Leif Wenar, Chair of Ethics, King's College London:听 "Oil, Dictators & Civil Wars: Our Contributions, Our Solutions."听 October 11, 2012.
Inaugural RGCS Lecture:听 Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford University: "Constitutionalism: A Skeptical View."听 October 4, 2012.
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Other past RGCS Events
Manuscript workshop, Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill),听Disjuncture: Indigenous Redirections in Normative Political Theory, October 27 2023
Manuscript workshop, Teresa Bejan (Oriel),听First Among Equals,听May 24, 2023听
Second annual Charles Taylor Lectures, delivered by C茅line Spector (Sorbonne), April 3-4, 2023听
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal, September 2023, RGCS and Political theory in/ and/ as political science reception; and see .
"Power and domination" workshop (a joint manuscript workshop on Arash Abizadeh, Power, Subjection, and Democracy, and William Clare Roberts, A Radical Politics of Freedom, August 15-17, 2022
"Transcending Settler Colonialism" conference, May 26-27, 2022听
First annual Charles Taylor Lectures, delivered by Philip Pettit (Princeton),听September 19-20, 2019听
Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania), "Free Speech on Campus,"听February 7, 2019
Political theory in/ and/ as political science,听May 10-12, 2018
Wirth Institute for Austrian Economics workshop. March 24-25, 2017.听
Peter听Jaworski听(Georgetown University), "The Ethics of Immigration",听Thursday, March 9, 2017.
Workshop on听"Representation, Bicameralism, and Sortition: With Application to the Canadian Senate". December 9, 2016.听
Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. June 20-21, 2016.
December 15, 2015: GRIPP manuscript workshop, cosponsored by RGCS and CR脡:听Arash Abizadeh,听Hobbes and the Two Dimensions of Normativity
October 26, 2015:听RGCS and the Yan P. Lin Centre present:听John Dunn, Cambridge: "Democracy and Good Government: Geographical and Historical Disparities in Perspective and the Quality of Political Judgment", 3-4:30 pm, Arts 160
"PPE as a method and as a research agenda." August 12, 2015.听 David Schmidtz (Arizona), Mark Pennington (King's College London), Carmen Pavel (King's College London), and Michael Munger (Duke).
Daniel Kapust (Wisconsin).听 听"A Tale of Two Fears: Lucretius, Hobbes, and the Political Psychology of Peace." May 29, 2015.
ConferenceL "Une 茅ducation affective, morale et politique."听 May 20-22, 2015.
Conference: Spinoza's Political Treatise: New Assessments.听 April 24-25, 2015.
Book Launch for The Structure of Pluralism by V铆ctor M. Mu帽iz-Fraticell, Tuesday September 30, 2014, Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore, 2220 McGill College Avenue
GRIPP Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop, Paul Gowder, A Commitment to Equality: The Rule of Law in the Real World. May 19, 2014.
Conference: "Global Justice After Colonialism."听 May 9-10, 2014, McGill.
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Tom Ginsburg,听University of Chicago:听"Rights in Constitutions: Origins and Spread."听Legal Theory Workshop, cosponsored by RGCS. 听March 1 2013, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall.
History Department Graduate Student Speakers' Initiative: Karuna Mantena,听Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University:听'Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politics',听November 20, 2012, 5:30-7:00 pm,听Arts W215, cosponsored by RGCS.
RGCS workshop, Detlef von Daniels,听University of Witten:听"How Plato Overcame the Cosmopolitans." 听September 20, 2012, noon-1:30 pm, Ferrier 422.
Book launch,听Hasana Sharp,听Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization;听Robert Sparling,听Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project.听 April 19, 2012.
Conference in honour of Charles Taylor '52, Professor Emeritus. 听Video podcasts available .听March 29-31, 2012.
International Studies Association workshop:听isa-ethics-2012.pdf
Conference:听Spatiality and Justice: Interdisciplinary Investigations on the Political Philosophy of the City, May 5-7, 2011
Workshop:听Security, Federalism, Democracy and the European Alternative, March 18, 2011
Workshop: Health Inequalities and Global Justice [in association with the Montreal meeting of the International Studies Association], March 15, 2011
Conference: Aristotle's Politics, March 11-12, 2011
Workshop on judicial review and democracy. December 3, 2010
Workshop with Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley: "Why Historical Distance Is Not A Problem." December 1 2010.
Dissertation-writing workshop, led by the RGCS' three winners of APSA's Leo Strauss Award for best dissertation in political philosophy: Arash Abizadeh, Christina Tarnopolsky, and Robert Sparling. November 26, 2010.
Workshop on Non-ideal and institutional theory, within the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, June 1-3, 2010
Book launch for Christina Tarnopolsky, Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame, with remarks by Jill Frank, June 1, 2010
Hegel After Spinoza: A Symposium, April 15-15, 2010
Basic Income Group conference, March 15-16 2010
"Governance by the Principle of Subsidiarity: Successes and Challenges over 14 Years," Roberto Formigoni, President, Lombardy Region, Italy, May 15th, 2009
Alan Tarr, "Federalism and Subnational Constitutional Space," with commentaries by Erin Crandall and Filippo Sabetti, November 7, 2008
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