Calendar
Political Theory Research Group 2018/19
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AUTUMN SEMESTER 2018
Unless otherwise specified these take place 3-4.30pm in Room 2.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square, Edinburgh
PAPERS WILL BE PRECIRCULATED FOR READING IN ADVANCE & WILL NOT BE PRESENTED IN FULL DURING THE SEMINAR
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Week 1 ( Wed 19 Sept) (3.15 18 Buccleuch Place) |
Dr Mihaela Mihai, PIR, UoE |
The ‘Banal’ Resister’s Silences: Impurity, Complicity, Ambivalence |
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Week 2 (Wed 26 Sept) |
Professor Tim Hayward, PIR, UoE |
Humanitarian intervention and intellectual due diligence |
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Week 3 (**LUNCH SEMINAR: 1pm, Thursday 4 Oct, 3.15 18 Buccleuch Place**) |
Professor Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University |
Structures of Complicity: Consumers, Producers, Suppliers |
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Week 4 (Wed 10 Oct) |
Dr Kieran Oberman, PIR, UoE |
Border Rescue |
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Week 5 (Wed 17 Oct) |
[No Seminar as Philosophy have a PTRG-relevant guest speaker: James Harris on Political Obligation.] |
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Week 6 (Wed 24 Oct) |
Dr Elizabeth Cripps, PIR, UoE |
Collective Harm and Individual Duties Revisited |
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Week 7 (Wed 31 Oct) |
[No seminar: PTRG group meeting] |
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Week 8 (Wed 7 Nov) (3.15 18 Buccleuch Place) |
Dr Maggie O’Brian, Philosophy, UoE |
Easy For You To Say |
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Week 9 (Wed 14 Nov) |
Dr Simon Hope, University of Stirling |
Two Friendly Doubts about ‘Political Realism’ |
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Week 10 (Wed 21 Nov) |
Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh, Law, UoE |
Bernard Williams & Political Constitutionalism |
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Week 11 (Wed 28 Nov) |
Dr Mathias Thaler, PIR, UoE |
Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope |
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Week 12 (Wed 5 Dec) (3.15 18 Buccleuch Place) |
Dr Philip Cook, PIR, UoE |
TBC |
**NOTE: Please let the convener know in advance if you intend to attend Prof Goodin’s seminar on 4 Oct (numbers limited to 20).
