The Political Theory Workshop has six exciting speakers planned for this academic year, discussing topics from citizenship to labor to decolonial movements. See below for details. If you have questions, contact the group’s organizer, Jane Gordon.

For now, only the first session will be virtual, but they will make accommodations to later events as necessary.

Monday, September 13th from 12:15-1:30p.m. [on Zoom]
“Labor, Nature, and Empire: Alienation and the (Post)Colonial Political Rift”
Inés Valdez, Political Science and Latina/o Studies, Ohio State University

Monday, October 18th, 12:15-1:30p.m., Oak 438
“Thoughts on the World, the Black and the Political,”
Ainsley LeSure, Africana Studies, Brown University

Friday, November 5th, 3:00-4:30p.m., Oak 438
“Transnational Identity and Historical Development”
Dabney Waring, Political Science, UConn

Friday, February 25th, 12:15-1:30, Oak 438
“Beyond the Prison: The Politics of Abolition”
Anna Terwiel, Political Science, Trinity College,

Monday, March 21st, 12:15-1:30p.m., Oak 438
“Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India”
Natasha Behl, Political Science, Arizona State University

Monday, April 18th, 12:15-1:30p.m., Oak 438
“From Creolization of Theory to Praxis: Feminist and Community Organization’s decolonial empowerment in Puerto Rico”
Luis Beltrán Álvarez, Political Science, UConn

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