Thursday 11 May 2017

• 16:00 - 'Security Governance "of the People, by the People, for the People": Auxiliary Forces in Civil Wars'
  Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Monday 15 May 2017

• 14:00 - The Democratic Boundary Problem Revisited
  Gustaf Arrhenius (Stockholm Institute of Future Studies)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 12:15 - Cultural Appropriation as Insult
  TBA
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 16:00 - 'Comparing Political Violence in Bosnia and Northern Ireland'
  Professor Siniša Malešević (University College Dublin)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Monday 22 May 2017

• 14:00 - Contractualism vs. Human Dignity
  Colin Bird (University of Virginia)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 12:15 - On Coding: Conceptual Analysis in Political Philosophy
  Keith Dowding (Australian National University)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 16:00 - 'Rivalry and Revenge: The Politics of Violence during Civil War' - Book Panel
  Unlike other events in this series, this talk will not be recorded and published as a podcast.
  Laia Balcells (Duke), Kristin Bakke (UCL), Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 26 May 2017

• 09:00 - Conference on the ‘Historical Rawls’
  Various Speakers

Monday 29 May 2017

• 14:00 - Prisoner Disenfranchisement and the All-Affected Principle in Democratic Theory
  Annette Zimmermann (Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 12:15 - The Moral Costs of Costless Warfare: Distributing Harms and Risks in Armed Humanitarian Intervention
  Linda Eggert (Oxford)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Thursday 1 June 2017

• 16:00 - 'Syria and the Battle of Ideas'
  Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 2 June 2017

• 09:00 - 'Democracy and Dissent: Theorizing Political Agency from Sites of Difference' - 2017 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference
  Various Speakers

Monday 5 June 2017

• 14:00 - 'The Duty of Rescue: Its Nature and Limits'
  Professor David Miller (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 12:15 - Constitutionalising Anarchy: The Case of Occupy Wall Street
  Ruth Kinna (Loughborough), Alex Prichard (University of Exeter), Thomas Swann (Loughborough)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 16:00 - 'Reconciling Narratives of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary Myanmar'
  Matthew Walton (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 9 June 2017

• 11:00 - Quentin Skinner Lecture and Colloquium: 'The Nature of Politics and the History of Political Thought'
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 June 2017

• 14:00 - 'Disability: A Justice - Based Account'
  Jessica Begon (Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 12:15 - Reflection as a Political Practice in Arendt and Rawls
  Sam Bruce (Oxford)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 16:00 - How should we approach the paradox of violence in pursuit of peace and equality?
  Nick Hewlett (Warwick)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Monday 19 June 2017

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 20 June 2017

• 10:30 - 'Symposium on Liberalism With Excellence by Matthew Kramer'
  Matthew Kramer (Cambridge)

Thursday 22 June 2017

• 09:45 - Democratic Theory Beyond Deliberation: New Approaches to Representative Democracy
  Various Speakers

Thursday 7 September 2017

• 12:30 - Conference on Public Life and Religious Diversity
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 October 2017

• 12:00 - 'Before On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the Nineteenth-Century Theory of Free Speech'
  Greg Conti (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 20 October 2017

• 12:00 - 'Hayek's Political Thought: Development, Problems and Heritage'
  Jeremy Shearmur (ANU)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 27 October 2017

• 12:00 - Discussion of Peter Ghosh, 'Constructing Marx in the History of Ideas'
  Peter Ghosh (Oxford), David Leopold (Oxford), Marc Mulholland (Oxford), Julia Nicholls (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 3 November 2017

• 12:00 - 'Alienation and Racial Hegemony'
  Sarah Bufkin (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 10 November 2017

• 12:00 - 'Thomas More's Utopia and utopian writing in Arabic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'
  Peter Hill (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 17 November 2017

• 12:00 - 'Political Theory and the Dark Arts'
  Steven Smith (Yale)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 24 November 2017

• 12:00 - 'History and Judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt'
  Waseem Yaqoob (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 1 December 2017

• 12:00 - 'The People Trap'
  Sofia Näsström (Uppsala)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 16:00 - Extremism, Genocide, and Ideological Contestation
  Dr Omar McDoom (LSE)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 19 January 2018

• 12:00 - Chains and Invisible Threads: Marx on Domination and Republican Liberty
  Bruno Leipold (Goethe University Frankfurt / Free University of Berlin)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 16:00 - Structural Violence, Public Health and the Militarization of Assistance
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 26 January 2018

• 12:00 - Problems of Socialist Strategy Redux
  Madeleine Davis (Queen Mary University of London)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 16:00 - “Self-Reliant Struggle” or Revolution?: On the Limits of Ideology in African Civil War
  Zoe Marks (Edinburgh)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 2 February 2018

• 12:00 - Dominus before Domination: Harriet Jacobs on Property and Slavery
  Desmond Jagmohan (Princeton)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 9 February 2018

• 12:00 - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 16:00 - How do Salafi Jihadi Ideological Commitments Matter in Multiparty Civil Wars: Rationales, Costs, and Regulations
  Dr Jerome Drevon (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 16:00 - Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
  Please note that this event has been cancelled.
  The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 23 February 2018

• 12:00 - Eduard Bernstein on the "Republic of Peoples": Socialism, Patriotism, and the Rise of International Institutions
  Marius Ostrowski (All Souls)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 16:00 - The Resonance of Moral and Legal Principles in Civilians’ Attitudes towards Wartime Harm: Qualitative Evidence from Afghanistan
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 2 March 2018

• 12:00 - Thomas Hobbes and Reformed Ethics
  Noah Dauber (Colgate)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 16:00 - Politics and the Promise of Violence
  Please note that this event has been cancelled.
  Professor Christopher Finlay (Durham University)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 9 March 2018

• 12:00 - Street-Level Bureaucracy and Democratic Theory
  Bernardo Zacka (Cambridge / MIT)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 16:00 - The Idea of an "Economy of Violence" in Political Theory and Ethics
  Professor Christopher Finlay (Durham University)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 4 May 2018

• 12:00 - Juries, Hobbes and Weber
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Richard Tuck (Harvard)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 16:00 - Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 11 May 2018

• 12:00 - Shakespeare, violence and war
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Ariel Colonomos (Sciences Po Paris), Theodor Meron (President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals), Dr Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Friday 18 May 2018

• 12:00 - Responsibility for the past and the changing identity of the state
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Avia Pasternak (UCL)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Friday 25 May 2018

• 12:00 - Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Michael Weinman (Bard College Berlin)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Friday 12 October 2018

• 12:00 - 'Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere'
  Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 19 October 2018

• 12:00 - 'Listening for silence: absence and lack in political thinking'
  Michael Freeden (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 26 October 2018

• 12:00 - 'The Federalist Vision of Eric Williams'
  Adom Getachew (Chicago)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 13:00 - Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination: Beyond the Politics of Shame in Northeast Asia
  Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Sun Yat-sen University)

Friday 2 November 2018

• 12:00 - ' Coercion in a Subjective World'
  Dan Luban (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 17:00 - Repugnant to the Whole Idea of Democratic Society? On the Role of Philanthropic Foundations
  Rob Reich (Stanford)

Friday 9 November 2018

• 12:00 - In Conversation: History, Philosophy and Feminism
  Please note the change in location: this week's seminar will be held in the Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre in Christ Church.
  Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 16 November 2018

• 12:00 - 'Political Theory for the Real World'
  Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 23 November 2018

• 12:00 - 'Human Rights on Trial'
  Justine Lacroix and Jean-Yves Pranchère (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 12:30 - Is Algorithmic Justice an Oxymoron? Consumers vs. Citizens in a Big Data World
  Allison Stanger (Middlebury College)

Friday 30 November 2018

• 12:00 - 'Moral possibility'
  Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 18 January 2019

• 12:00 - 'Merze Tate on Religion, Imperialism, and Anglo-American Relations in the Pacific
  Barbara Savage (Pennsylvania)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 25 January 2019

• 12:00 - Thucydides on the Corruption of Language, or The Unbearable Lightness of Logos
  Mark Fisher (Georgetown)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 1 February 2019

• 12:00 - Locke versus Filmer revisited
  James Harris (St Andrews)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 8 February 2019

• 12:00 - The mundane in a spectacular era: #metoo and #blacklivesmatter
  Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 15 February 2019

• 12:00 - Socialism's heart of darkness: the origins of 'Eurafrica' in dissident Social Democracy, 1918-32
  Marius Ostrowski (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 22 February 2019

• 12:00 - The End of Enlightenment: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Richard Whatmore (St Andrews)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 1 March 2019

• 12:00 - Natural right theory in Kant’s legal metaphors
  Sofie Møller (Frankfurt)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 8 March 2019

• 12:00 - The Origins of the End of Ideology Debate: An Alternative History
  Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 29 April 2019

• 13:00 - 2019 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory Keynote Address: Irregular Migration, Adverse Possession and the Justification of the Right to Exclude
  Lea Ypi (LSE)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 14:00 - Conceptualising Permissible Risk Imposition Without Probabilities
  Susanne Burri (LSE)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 14:00 - Second Personal Authority and the Practice of Democracy
  TBA
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 14:00 - An Inconsistency in Political Realism?
  Paul Weithman (Notre Dame)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 14:00 - TBA
  Nic Southwood (ANU)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 14:00 - Self-Trust and Discriminatory Speech
  Mari Mikkola (Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 11 June 2019

• 14:00 - A Theory of Respect
  Philip Pettit (Princeton and ANU)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 18 June 2019

• 14:00 - Work, Free Time, and Just Growth
  Julie Rose (Dartmouth)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 18 October 2019

• 12:00 - In the Shadow of Justice
  Katrina Forrester (Harvard)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 14:00 - Sortition as Anti-Corruption
  Samuel Bagg (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 25 October 2019

• 12:00 - 'Heterodoxy and Political Economy in Sir William Petty: 1623-1687
  Shannon Stimson (Georgetown)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 14:00 - Defusing Continua Arguments, or, How to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion
  Ruth Chang (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 1 November 2019

• 12:00 - Rivers are People Too?: On Legal Personhood for Nature
  Sean Fleming (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 14:00 - From Resistance to Dissent and Back: De-Constitutionalizing Civil Disobedience
  Candice Delmas (Northeastern University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 8 November 2019

• 12:00 - 'Colonialism vs Imperialism
  Barbara Arneil (UBC)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 14:00 - Territory: A Functionalist Account
  Anthony Taylor (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 15 November 2019

• 12:00 - Early British Socialism and the "Religion of the New Moral World"
  Edward Lucas (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 14:00 - Minimalism, Determinacy, and Human Rights
  Robert Simpson (UCL)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 12:00 - The Neo-Liberal Turn
  Note this week's talk is on THURSDAY
  Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 14:00 - Military Intervention in Inter-State Conflicts
  Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 29 November 2019

• 12:00 - A utopian feminist in the French Revolution: J. H. Lawrence against marriage
  Due to industrial action this seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anne Verjus (CNRS)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 6 December 2019

• 12:00 - The Paradox of Loss: Reading Edward Said for Political Theory
  Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 13 December 2019

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 12:00 - 'Republicanism and Anti-Trinitarianism in John Milton's Poetry and Prose'
  Deni Kasa (Tel Aviv)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 24 January 2020

• 12:00 - 'Socialist Internationalism and the Problem of Islam'
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 14:00 - Democratic Legitimacy and Representation Beyond Elections
  Hélène Landemore (Yale University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 31 January 2020

• 12:00 - 'Theorizing Political Resistance to Racism: From Occasioning Sight to Constituting Power'
  Ainsley LeSure (Occidental)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - Treatment and Accountability
  Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 7 February 2020

• 12:00 - 'The Stateless in the History of International Political Thought'
  Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 14:00 - Climate Change and the Presence of the Past
  Henry Shue (Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 14 February 2020

• 12:00 - 'The Mixing Body: A Theory of Property in Locke'
  Hagar Kotef (SOAS)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 14:00 - To Claim or Not to Claim… Sovereignty in Outer Space
  Pablo Zambrano (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 14:00 - Partisan Community
  Jay Ruckelshaus (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 28 February 2020

• 12:00 - 'Republicanism and Anti-Trinitarianism in John Milton's Poetry and Prose
  Deni Kasa (Tel Aviv)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 14:00 - Self-Determination and Secession: Why Nations are Special
  Ruairi Maguire (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 6 March 2020

• 12:00 - 'Re-framing Islam: Submission, Reformation, Pacification’
  Murad Idris (UVA)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 12:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures: 'Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy'
  Peter Adamson (Munich)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The Case for Scottish Independence
  Ben Jackson (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 23 October 2020

• 12:30 - Laws, liberties and the will of the people (right and wrong): political thought in the wars of religion
  Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 26 October 2020

• 11:00 - Graduate Political Theory Conference - Day 1
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 11:00 - Graduate Political Theory Conference - Day 2
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 13 November 2020

• 14:30 - Re-Framing Islam: Submission, Reformation, Pacification
  Murad Idris (UVA/Michigan)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 20 November 2020

• 12:30 - Kant, Empiricism, and the Fate of Nations at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century
  Morgan Golf-French (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 27 November 2020

• 12:45 - Politics, Time and East German Identity in the Era of Late Socialism
  Marcus Colla (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021

• 12:00 - The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State
  Steven Klein (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 5 February 2021

• 12:00 - Freedom: An Unruly History
  Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 15:30 - Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging
  Jennie Ikuta (Missouri)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 15:30 - African American Political Thought: A Collected History
  Melvin Rogers (Brown)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 5 March 2021

• 12:00 - Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 12 March 2021

• 12:00 - John Locke and Empire (Carlyle Lectures)
  Mark Goldie (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 26 April 2021

• 09:00 - 2021 OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 14:00 - The Case for Permanent Residency for Frontline Workers
  Mollie Gerver (University of Essex)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 14:00 - Faces of Gender Inequality
  Sophia Moreau (University of Toronto)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 16:00 - Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement
  Erin Pineda (Smith College)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 14:00 - Past Exclusion and Present-Day Immigration Policy
  Rufaida Al-Hashmi (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 16:00 - Louis Blanc: Republican Socialism in 19th Century France
  Pablo Scotto (Barcelona/Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 14:00 - The Justice Account of Disability in Practice: Providing Control and Avoiding Paternalism
  Jess Begon (Durham University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 16:00 - Statelessness: A Modern History
  Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• 14:00 - The Explanatory Power of Ideology
  Allen Buchanan (University of Arizona)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 14:00 - Distinguishing Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Press
  Rob Simpson (UCL)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 14:00 - Settling Claims for Reparation
  Daniel Butt (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 14:00 - Democratic Equality and the Respect Paradox
  Jeff Spinner-Halev (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 15 October 2021

• 12:00 - New Book: The Right to Sex
  Amia Srinivasan (Oxford), Commentator: Shai Agmon, Commentator: Jenny Huang, Commentator: Kushti Westwood
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 14:00 - Gentrification and Everyday Democracy
  Jamie Draper (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 22 October 2021

• 12:00 - New Book: Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion
  Sophie Nicholls (Oxford), Commentator: Connor Grubaugh, Commentator: Kate Shore
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 14:00 - Liability to Defensive Censorship
  Jeff Howard (UCL)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 29 October 2021

• 12:00 - New Book: John Stuart Mill: Socialist
  Helen McCabe (Nottingham), Commentator: Oliver Gough, Commentator: Charlie Richards
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 14:00 - Automation and Immigration
  Tom Parr (University of Warwick)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 5 November 2021

• 12:00 - New Book: The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of the Revolution
  Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), Daniel Zamora (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Commentator: Owen Coughlan, Commentator: Emily Dyson
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 14:00 - Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition
  Katharine Jenkins (University of Glasgow)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 16:00 - New Book: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
  Tae-Yeoun Keum (UC Santa Barbara), Comentator: Audrey Borowski, Comentator: Jamie Ranger
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 14:00 - On Commemoration
  Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 19 November 2021

• 12:00 - English News Culture and Classical Republican Thought in the 1640s
  Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary's)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 14:00 - A Resourcist Argument for Sharing the Costs of Children
  Serena Olsaretti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 26 November 2021

• 12:00 - New book: Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing
  Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 14:00 - Paternalism at a Distance
  Jonathan Turner (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 21 January 2022

• 12:00 - Discussion of Sarah Mortimer's Reformation, Resistance and Reason of State (1517-1625): the Oxford History of Political Thought
  Sarah Mortimer, Geertje Bol, Jacob Chatterjee
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 28 January 2022

• 12:00 - City, faction, and tyranny: Bartolus of Sassoferrato's three treatises on city government
  If you are planning to attend in person please book a ticket at the link below
  George Garnett (Oxford), Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:15 - The Gender of Critical Theory
  Extra Session with the Critical Theory Seminar
  Lois McNay (University of Oxford), Commentator: Liz Frazer (Politics)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 4 February 2022

• 16:00 - Claudia Jones' "Triple Oppression" Concept and the interrelation of Race, Gender, and Class
  Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 11 February 2022

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Tim Stuart-Buttle (York)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 18 February 2022

• 12:00 - Rereading An American Dilemma
  Emma MacKinnon (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 13:00 - Birth of Neoliberal Anti-Environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
  Extra session with American History Research Seminar
  Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 25 February 2022

• 12:00 - Reconsidering Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement
  Emily Katzenstein (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 4 March 2022

• 12:00 - The rule of merit and the merit of rules
  Benjamin Straumann (Zurich/NYU)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 11 March 2022

• 12:00 - The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Sam Moyn (Yale)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 14:00 - Stealing from the Rich to Give to the Poor: Towards an Ethics of Social Banditry
  Juliana Bidadanure (Stanford University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 14:00 - Book Workshop - 'Postcolonial Global Justice' by Shuk Ying Chan
  Shuk Ying Chan (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 14:00 - Three Ecological Arguments for Limitarianism
  Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 14:00 - Social Beneficence
  Jacob Barrett (Global Priorities Institute, Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 14:00 - Taking It Home With You: Work, Free Time and Domination
  Orlando Lazar (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 14:00 - The Sexual Bases of Self-Respect
  Elsa Kugelberg (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 13 June 2022

• 09:00 - Conference on Discrimination by/against Religion
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - New Book - Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
  Sophie Lewis (UPenn)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 16:00 - New Book: Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
  Sophie Lewis (UPenn)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley
  Eileen M Hunt (Notre Dame)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 14:00 - Disaggregating Structural Injustice
  Johann Go (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 24 October 2022

• 16:00 - Painting Political Philosophy
  Emma Planinc (Notre Dame)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Vanessa Wills (Georgetown University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - Parliamentary institutions in the political thought of Jean Bodin
  Paulina Kewes (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 14:00 - Mansplaining and Its Political Consequences for Women’s Voice
  Laura Montanaro (University of Essex)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Friday 11 November 2022

• 14:00 - Thomson on Agent-Relative Prerogatives
  Christopher Wellman (Washing University in St Louis)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Languages of republicanism: res publica and swaraj
  Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 14:00 - Global Justice and Biodiversity Conservation
  Chris Armstrong (University of Southampton)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 14:00 - Towards a Political Theory of Caring In and Against the Welfare State
  Emily Dyson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 16:00 - From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
  Please note this seminar will be on Tuesday at the Rothermere American Institute
  Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 14:00 - Book manuscript workshop on Jamie Draper’s Climate Displacement
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the History of Political Thought
  Samuel Zeitlin (Colgate)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 23 January 2023

• 16:00 - Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain
  Juliet Hooker (Brown)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 30 January 2023

• 16:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures: Custom, Common Law and Civil Law
  John Hudson (St Andrews)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 6 February 2023

• 16:00 - Economies of Conspiracy: Hidden Power and the Erosion of Democracy in Athenian Political Thought
  Demetra Kasimis (Chicago)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 13 February 2023

• 16:00 - Toleration, Time and the Other
  Marietta van der Tol (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 20 February 2023

• 12:00 - Discussion of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes
  Please note this seminar is at 12:00-13:30
  Stefan Eich (Georgetown)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 27 February 2023

• 16:00 - Forward Ever: Nkrumah’s Conception of Anticolonial Speed
  Musab Yunis (Queen Mary University of London)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 6 March 2023

• 16:00 - Discussion of Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
  Jeanne Morefield (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 24 April 2023

• 09:00 - Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
  Laurie Balfour, Andrea Sangiovanni
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 14:00 - Moral Education for Free and Equal Citizens
  Matthew Clayton (University of Warwick)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 17:00 - Nostalgia ain't what it used to be: Responding to Change and Loss
  Sarah Fine (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 14:00 - The Responsibilities of Collective Self-Authorship
  Derrick Darby (Rutgers University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 14:00 - Not Just Speaking For Ourselves: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Wendy Salkin (Stanford University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 14:00 - Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism & The Politics of Care
  Deva Woodly (The New School of Social Research)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 09:00 - Conference on 'Liberty, Equality, Religion'
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 14:00 - Persuasion, Price-Setting, and the Ethics of ‘Cancel Culture’
  Temi Ogunye (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 09:00 - Workshop on Keith Dowding's Book Manuscript
  TBA
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - New Book: Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:00 - José Sarria’s performance archive and the making of nelly queens, 1953-1963
  Mori Reithmayr (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
  Please note this talk is on Wednesday
  Jennifer Burns (Stanford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 5 February 2024

• 17:00 - Paolo Sarpi’s History of the Council of Trent (1619/20) and early modern conciliar thinking
  Eloise Davies (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 12 February 2024

• 17:00 - Feminism Re-Scaled: From Subject and Ethics to Structures and Politics
  Kathi Weeks (Duke)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Paul Seaward (History of Parliament)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 26 February 2024

• 17:00 - Hobbes, Reception, and the Politics of Freethinking
  Elad Carmel (Edinburgh)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 4 March 2024

• 17:00 - Political Cooperation in Hell: Bonaventure, Suarez, and Milton
  Daniel Schwartz (Hebrew University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 14 October 2024

• 17:00 - Book Discussion: The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
  Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 21 October 2024

• 17:00 - Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900
  Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 28 October 2024

• 17:00 - Making Equality Strange: Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 4 November 2024

• 17:00 - Populism for End Times: Norman Cohn, Vera Broido, and ‘Political Religion'
  Nicolas Guilhot (EUI)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 11 November 2024

• 17:00 - Bernard Mandeville’s Critique of Epicurus and the ‘Easie Divines’ of the Church of England, 1705–1732
  Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 18 November 2024

• 17:00 - Book Discussion: Citizen Marx: Karl Marx and Republicanism
  Bruno Leipold (LSE)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 25 November 2024

• 17:00 - How Did the Enlightenment Rights of Man Become Christian?
  Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Kant’s Justification of Territorial Rights
  Lea Ypi (LSE)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 2 December 2024

• 17:00 - Rights in Roman Republican Thought
  Valentina Arena (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 17:00 - Berlin Lectures Discussion
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 20 January 2025

• 17:00 - Carl Schmitt and the History of the First World War: State Composition and the Collapse of the Second Reich (1934)
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 27 January 2025

• 17:00 - Beyond Antagonism: Converging Radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean
  Dr Leslie James (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 3 February 2025

• 17:00 - Jacobus Acontius's Stratagemata Satanae (1564) and the question of religious coercion
  Dr Odile Panetta (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Divorce Tracts and Milton's Radical Affections
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 17 February 2025

• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 24 February 2025

• 17:00 - Book Presentation: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar