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Spring, 2008:
February 26, 2008, 3 p.m., CHAT lounge, Gladfelter Hall--
Thomas Pogge, "World Poverty and Human Rights"
(co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy)
Thomas Pogge is currently Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at ANU. Beginning in the fall of 2008, he will be Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University. His recent writing includes World Poverty and
Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms
(second, expanded edition, Cambridge: Polity Press 2008);
“Growth and Inequality: Understanding Recent Trends and
Political Choices,” in Dissent 55/1 (Winter 2008), 66-75;
Global Responsibilities, two-volume set consisting of Global
Justice: Seminal Essays, edited with Darrel Moellendorf and
Global Ethics: Seminal Essays, edited with Keith Horton (St.
Paul, MN: Paragon House 2008); “How Not to Count the Poor”
(Sanjay Reddy and Thomas Pogge), forthcoming in S. Anand
and Joseph Stiglitz, eds.: Measuring Global Poverty (Oxford
University Press); “The Role of International Law in Reproducing
Massive Poverty” forthcoming in S. Besson and J. Tasioulas, eds.:
The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford University Press);
and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes
What to the Very Poor?, edited (Oxford University Press 2007).
Fall, 2007:
November 16th, 2007, 12:00 p.m.--
Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Democratic Leadership and Values at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, “Bringing Self-Interest Back In: OR, I Said “Beyond Adversary Democracy,” But I Didn’t Mean That Far Beyond”
Silverstein Forum of Stiteler Hall, University of Pennsylvania
(This talk is co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop, Dept. of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest; Feminism; and Oppositional Consciousness. Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of collective action problems.
Spring, 2008:
Date to be determined:
Professor Leif Wenar, Visiting Professor, Princeton University Center for Human Values, Global Justice and International Law
Spring, 2009:
April 3-4, 2009 (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Temple, organized with Prof. Joseph Schwartz, Dept. of Political Science):
Conference on Globalization, Democracy, and Human Rights
Previous events:
Spring, 2007:
April 12, 2007, 2:45 p.m.--
Professor R. Claire Snyder,"Neo-Patriarchalism in a Globalizing World Questions for Democratic and Feminist Theorists." This talk is co- sponsored by the Political Theory Colloquium of Temple University.
R. Claire Snyder is Associate Professor of Political Theory at George Mason University and Graduate Director for the M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Women & Politics Institute at American University and an Associate of the Kettering Foundation. Overall, her research engages the conversation of democratic theory from a progressive feminist perspective. Snyder is the author of Citizen-Soldiers and Manly Warriors: Military Service and Gender in the Civic Republican Tradition (1999) and Gay Marriage and Democracy: Equality for All (2006), as well as numerous articles and essays on topics related to democratic theory and citizenship. Her current research agenda includes projects on third wave feminism, anarchism, neo-patriarchalism, and radical republicanism. Snyder holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and a B.A. cum laude from Smith College.