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Schedule and Papers
October 9, 2009
	David Lay Williams, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Title: "Rousseau’s Platonic Lies? Truth and Fiction in Rousseau’s Morals & Politics" Discussant: Rebecca Lemoine Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
February 5, 2010
	Elizabeth Wingrove, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Title: "Addressing Sovereignty: a Case of Epistolary Politics in Eighteenth-Century France" Discussant: Ethan Alexander-Davey Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
February 12, 2010
	Rebecca Lemoine, University of Wisconsin Title: "Treating the Athenian Stranger as a Citizen? Political Justice and Foreigners in Plato's Laws" Discussant: Richard Avramenko Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:30
February 19, 2010
	Xin Fan, University of Wisconsin Title: "Rousseau's Social Contract Theory and Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life" Discussant: John Zumbrunnen Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:30
March 5, 2010
	John Wallach, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate School Title: "Ancient Greek Relations of Democracy and Virtue: A Contemporary Perspective" Discussant: Stefani Veselinovic Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
March 12, 2010
	Se-Houng Yi, University of Wisconsin Title: "John Calvin's Democratic Republicanism" Discussant: TBA Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:30
March 19, 2010
	Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Wisconsin Title: "Burke and Maistre's Alternative to the Irrational Exuberance and Enmity of Enlightenment Reason" Discussant: TBA Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:30
April 9, 2010
	Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago Title: "Global Connections in Enlightenment Political Thought" Discussant: Mehreen Zahra-Malik Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
May 7, 2010
	Jill Frank, University of South Carolina Title: "On Persuasion in Plato’s Republic" Discussant: Rob Gingerich Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15


Previous Meetings
May 1, 2009
	Michael Gillespie, Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy and Director, Gerst Program in Political , Economic, and Humanistic Studies Department of Political Science, Duke University
	Title: "Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche contra Plato on the Role of a Warrior Elite." Discussant: Se-Hyoung Yi Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
January 23, 2009
	Jimmy Klausen, Assistant Professor of Political Science Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Title: "Travels as Political Education; or, Philosophy as Homesickness (On Rousseau's Emile)" Discussant: Richard Avramenko Location and Time: Ogg Room, 12:00-1:15
November 21 , 2008
	Catharine Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
	Title: Plato's Philosophers: On the Coherence of the Platonic Dialogues Discussant: Ethan Alexander-Davey Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
November 7, 2008
	Julie Cooper, Assistant Professor of Political Science , Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
	Title: "Vainglory, Modesty, and Political Agency in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan" Discussant: TBA Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
October 17, 2008
	Helen Kinsella, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Title: International Feminist Futures Discussant: TBA Location and Time: Ogg Room, 3:45-5:15
May 2nd, 2008
	Dean Mathiowetz, Assistant Professor of Politics Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
	Title: "Historiographies of Liberal ‘Interest’ and the Neoliberal ‘Self'" Discussant: Michael Pisapia Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30
March 7th, 2008
	Travis Smith, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, Concordia University
	Title: "Francis Bacon and the Idea of Modern Medicine" Discussant: Brandon Turner Location and Time: 6310 Social Sciences, 3:30
February 22nd, 2008
	Gaelan Murphy, Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Title: "Individualism and the Modern State: Hegel on Freedom and Right" Discussant: Sarah Rouhi Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30
Monday, April 23, 2007
	Joshua Mitchell, Department of Government, Georgetown University
	Title: "Modernity and Its Prospects: Thoughts from Tocqueville" Discussant: Richard Avramenko Location and Time: 12:00 -1:30 am, Ogg Room, 422 North Hall
Friday, March 30, 2007
	Francis Schrag, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Title: "Education and Democracy: A Comparison of John Dewey and Michael Oakshott" Discussant: Michael Pisapia Location and Time: 3:00 - 4:30 am, Ogg Room, 422 North Hall
Friday, March 16, 2007
	Richard Avramenko, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Title: "Of Homesteaders and Orangemen: An Archeology of Canadian Political Identity" Discussant: Brandon Turner Location and Time: 3:30 - 5:00 am, Ogg Room, 422 North Hall
January 24, 2007
	Marc Stears, Department of Politics, University of Oxford
	Title: "The Liberal Tradition Revisited " Discussant: Open Location and Time: 12:00 - 1:00 am, Ogg Room, North Hall
October 20, 2006
	Farah Godrej, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
	Title: "Understanding the 'Other:' The Hermeneutics of Comparative Political Thought" Discussant: Sara Rouhi Location and Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am, location TBA
April 28, 2006
	~~Elspeth Wilson, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison~~ Cancelled
	Title: "Privacy and Citizenship: The Concept of Privacy and the Pluralization of Citizenship" Discussant: Shannon Roesler Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30-5:00 pm
April 7, 2006
	Alan Levine, Department of Government, American University
	Title: "The Idea of America in European Political Thought: 1492-9/11" Discussant: Brandon Turner Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30-5:00 pm
March 31, 2006
	Sara Song, Department of Political Science, MIT
	Title: "Justice as Evenhandedness: An Egalitarian Argument for Multiculturalism" Supplemental Paper Discussant: Elspeth Wilson Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 4:00-5:30 pm
March 24, 2006
	Richard Boyd, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
	Title: "Hobbes, Locke, and Liberal Exclusion" Discussant: Tim Bagshaw Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30-5:00 pm
March 3, 2006
	Michael Pisapia, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
	Title: "Democratic Discovery and Dewey's Ethical Principle of Growth" Discussant: Davis Alan Ciotola Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30-5:00 pm
Feb 24, 2006
	Leigh Payne, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
	Title: Unsettling Accounts (chapter one & conclusion) Discussant: Brandon Kendhammer Location and Time: 422 North Hall, 3:30-5:00 pm