Department of Politics
Department of Politics

Political Theory Colloquium 2025

Academic Year
Speaker Series
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University
Lucia Rafanelli
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University
The Specter of Statelessness
Assistant Professor, Colby College
Nazli Konya
Assistant Professor, Colby College
Down with Grand Narratives! Humor, Sense, and Nonsense at the Gezi Protests
Assistant Professor, Loyola University of Chicago
Jennifer Forestal
Assistant Professor, Loyola University of Chicago
Decentralization ≠ Democracy: The Organization of Power & the Future of Social Media
Professor, University of Minnesota
Nancy Luxon
Professor, University of Minnesota
Publics and Policing: Spies, Surveillance, and Colonial Subjects in Interwar Paris.
Professor Emeritus, New York University
George Shulman
Professor Emeritus, New York University
Creative Paranoia and Radical Democracy: the politics of SNNC and SDS
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cara Nine
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Foundational Territories: Trans-national Territories for Complex Resource System Management
Gibson Hall, 296
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto
Menaka Phillips
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto
Imperfect Victims: Feminism and the Problem of Legible Resistance
Gibson Hall, 296
PhD Candidate, University of Virginia Department of Politics
Layla Picard
PhD Candidate, University of Virginia Department of Politics
Writing Our Own Ends? Ethnographic Ethics for the Endangered
Gibson Hall, 296
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
David Temin
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
No Humans Involved: The Erasure of Earthwork in Historical and Contemporary Environmentalisms
Gibson Hall, 296
Nau III Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Nau III Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
Water as Mediator: Plural Ontologies of Land and Pragmatism in Territorial Rights
Gibson Hall, 296