UCLA Political Science

Political Theory Workshop: "Out of Line: Line-Standing, Queues, and Distributive Justice" by Elizabeth Cohen
2021-06-04 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University
Title: Out of Line: Line-Standing, Queues, and Distributive Justice
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, June 4th; 4:00pm PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Abstract:
Time is a fundamental ingredient of social justice. Yet political theory does not often directly interrogate the temporality of distributive justice. This paper examines one aspect of distributive justice and time. It looks at the impact of members of a society thinking of themselves to be waiting in queues to access political opportunities, goods, and standing. The process of “waiting in line” has become a common metaphor to describe the experience of seeking social and political mobility. Queues are associated with powerful social justice expectations and related emotions. Once people believe they have invested time waiting in line, they tend to treat their place in line to be a form of property, they expect the principle of first come first served to apply, and they react strongly to even a suggestion that a line has been “cut” or arbitrarily reordered. Such frames have important implications for how anyone seeking social mobility will regard immigrants, or anyone they believe should be behind them in a line.

Political Theory Workshop: "The Use of Love" by Lida Maxwell
2021-05-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Lida Maxwell, Boston University
Title: The Use of Love
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, May 21st; 4:00pm PST

*Please note that the attached chapter is from Professor Maxwell’s book project on queer love*

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Abstract:
This chapter of my book project, “Queer Love,” examines how the experience of queer love puts normal “uses” of love into question, and reframes the nature of “use” – of objects, people, non-human nature, institutions etc. – for queer lovers more generally. The chapter focuses on the relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, as well as Audre Lorde’s account of the erotic, while also examining some of Carson’s early writings while she worked at the Department of the Interior. A central claim of the chapter is that the use of love and the use of non-human nature are connected, and that when queer love puts the nature of “use” into question, this happens in part through unfamiliar uses of non-human nature.

Political Theory Workshop: “Quite obscure until now:” Montesquieu’s constitutional history, foundings, and the modern state by Jacob Levy
2021-04-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Jacob Levy, McGill University
Title: “Quite obscure until now:” Montesquieu’s constitutional history, foundings, and the modern state
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, April 16th; 4:00pm PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Abstract:
The concluding Part 6 of The Spirit of the Laws is by far the longest of the book’s major sections— almost a third of the book’s total length— but it is almost certainly the least-discussed and least-understood. It offers a legal and constitutional history of France which, even by Montesquieu’s usual standards, offers few explicit normative conclusions and little by way of an explanation of its purpose. The material he discusses is obscure to contemporary readers, and so Part 6 is typically either ignored altogether or identified in a summary way with la thèse nobiliaire. In this chapter I will offer an interpretation of Part 6 and its purpose in the book, and use that to illuminate Montesquieu’s understanding of constitutional foundings and the emergence of the modern European state throughout SL, and, more tentatively, in The Persian Letters as well. Montesquieu rejects all of the contemporaneous theories of political normativity grounded in foundings and origins— la thèse nobiliaire as much as la thèse royale, historical contractarianism as is found in the monarchomachs and hypothetical contractarianism In the Grotius-Hobbes tradition, and the obsession with foundings and founders seen in Machiavelli and republicanism. He demonstrates the falseness and impossibility of all of these, rejecting them as incompatible with the pluralism and institutional evolution that genealted the moderate and balanced era of the Gothic constitution, “the best kind of government which men have been able to devise.” This government did not ultimately fail through its corruption, as one might think through reading the long discussion of regime types and their internal failure; it was itself such a corruption. Its merits were not based on a founding principle but on the institutional history traced in Part 6– a history that directs our attention to the social and political changes that did end the Gothic era, the rise of the modern Weberian state.

Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture - Anna Spain Bradley
2021-03-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Political Theory Workshop: Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom by Neil Roberts
2021-03-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Neil Roberts, Williams College
Title: Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism, Democracy, Freedom
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, March 12th; 4:00pm PST

*Professor Roberts’ attached paper is a chapter from the recently published book
African American Political Thought: A Collected History, Edited by Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner*

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Abstract:
The essay begins with a discussion of the movements, texts, and figures—notably Herbert Marcuse—both central to the intellectual development of Angela Y. Davis and most representative of Davis’s political thought. It frames Davis’s body of work as a form of fugitive theory and practice whose nineteenth-century intellectual roots provide a unique vista only partially mined by contemporary theorists frequently associated with fugitive thought. It turns next to an examination of three concepts foundational to the work of Davis: abolitionism, democracy, and freedom. Davis’s analyses of W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass are vital to elucidating these notions. The chapter argues that the understanding of abolitionism Davis marshals mediates her articulations of democracy and freedom in late modernity. Inclusion of Davis’s views on resistance and liberation reinforces this reading. Davis does not claim to invent all or even most of the categories and terms integral to her thought. It is the way she integrates older and new concepts into a defined political system concerned with actors and institutional arrangements that distinguishes her. Deciphering how Davis arrives at her core tripartite ideals challenges us to refashion facile, sanitized origin narratives of the contours of African American political thought.

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Political Theory Workshop: Galton’s Pride: The Resilience of Data-Driven Inequality by Colin Koopman
2021-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Colin Koopman, University of Oregon
Title: Galton’s Pride: The Resilience of Data-Driven Inequality
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, February 26th; 4:00pm PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Abstract:
Francis Galton is today remembered as an eminent prince of science if not also as a wild crank who, at the end of the nineteenth century, helped spawn the grandiose political disaster of eugenics. But moreso than prince or crank, Galton was first and foremost a tinkering technician of measure. There are numerous domains of science over which Galtonian conceptions of measure retain considerable influence. Not least among these are efforts in contemporary data science. Yet as critical data studies scholars have recently shown, new deployments of data science risk a bevy of injustices. Even where contemporary sciences officially disclaim the inegalitarian moralities of racism that funded Galton’s eugenics, they maintain other of his foci, such as that on the family, and thereby risk, perhaps even invite, social inequalities.

Special Comparative Politics Seminar: Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany by Daniel Gingerich and Jan Vogler
2021-02-11 11:00 - 13:00 | CA
Speakers: Daniel Gingerich and Jan Vogler, University of Virginia
Title: Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
Topic: CP Special Seminar
Time: Thursday, February 11th; 11:00am PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Link to paper: http://www.janvogler.net/Pandemics_Political_Development.pdf

Political Theory Workshop: ‘Pass by!’: Nietzsche’s Zarathustra on Speaking’s Damage by Shalini Satkunanandan
2021-01-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Shalini Satkunanandan, UC Davis
Title: ‘Pass by!’: Nietzsche’s Zarathustra on Speaking’s Damage
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, January 22nd; 4:00pm PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Abstract:
Nietzsche’s prophet protagonist, Zarathustra, sometimes seeks to avoid or curtail engagement with others, including dialogical engagement about beliefs, in order to pursue and protect his arguably political ends (the creation of new values). He calls this practice of selective withdrawal from engagement “passing by.” In this paper, which is part of an in-progress book manuscript, I show how Zarathustra’s practice of passing by arises from an acute sense of the limits and toll of speaking to others, especially for anyone who strives, as Zarathustra does, to create a radically new future.

Political Theory Workshop: The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Reading of Carl Schmitt by Robyn Marasco
2020-12-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Robyn Marasco, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Title: The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Reading of Carl Schmitt
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, December 4th; 4:00pm PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Political Theory Workshop: Machiavellian Leadership, Class Conflict and Imperial Expansion by John McCormick
2020-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: John McCormick, University of Chicago
Title: Machiavellian Leadership, Class Conflict and Imperial Expansion
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, November 20th; 4:00pm PST

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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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Abstract:
Two seemingly minor figures from the Discourses, Marcus Menenius and Pacuvius Calanus, play fundamental roles in Machiavelli’s lessons on political leadership. Through these examples, Machiavelli instructs leaders on the proper role that capital trials should play within republics beset by class conflict, aristocratic conspiracies, and imperially exacerbated civic corruption. Machiavelli demonstrates that leaders must find suitable opportunities to prosecute oppressive elites before the common people in capital trials; and, moreover, that such leaders must demonstrate their own deference to the people by encouraging, at appropriate moments, the people to pass legal judgment on themselves as well. Menenius and Pacuvius appear in episodes involving Capua, a subject city of Rome, thus enabling Machiavelli to explore the interaction of leaderly prudence, domestic class conflict and imperial rule. Ultimately, Machiavelli’s Menenius and Pacuvius demonstrate how publicly spirited civic leaders can properly mobilize the people to expose, combat or resolve instances of foreign conspiracy, domestic tumult, and aristocratic corruption for the benefit of their polities.

"U Heard It Here" Understanding the 2020 Election Outcome by Lynn Vavreck, Efrén Pérez, & Daniel Thompson
2020-11-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
U HEARD IT HERE

a panel discussion featuring

Lynn Vavreck
Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics

Efrén Pérez
Professor, UCLA Department of Political Science and Psychology
Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics and Society (REPS) Lab

Daniel Thompson
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Political Science

moderated by

Erin Hartman
Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Political Science and Statistics

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
5:30 p.m. PST

Live streaming via Zoom
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Political Theory Workshop: The Value of Official Equality: Structuring the Execution of Democratic Law by Blake Emerson
2020-11-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Speaker: Blake Emerson, UCLA School of Law
Title: The Value of Official Equality: Structuring the Execution of Democratic Law
Topic: PT Workshop
Time: Friday, November 6th; 4:00pm PST
ZOOM LINK:
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Meeting ID: 821 781 5316
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"U Heard It Here" The 2020 Campaign for the Hardest Job in the World by Lynn Vavreck & John Dickerson
2020-10-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
“U HEARD IT HERE” LECTURES
Fall 2020
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. PDT

The 2020 Campaign for the Hardest Job in the World

John Dickerson
Correspondent, 60 Minutes, CBS News
Author, The Hardest Job in the World
Lynn Vavreck
Mavin Hoffenberg Professor of
American Politics

Michael Raeber (UCLA/University of Zürich)
2020-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Paper

Maile Arvin (University of Utah)
2020-02-24 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0633-6_601.pdf

Robert Nichols (University of Minnesota)
2020-02-14 16:00 - 18:00 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
https://www.dukeupress.edu/theft-is-property

Daniel Thompson (Stanford University), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-12-03 12:30 - 14:00 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Jason Todd (Duke University), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-25 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Hye Young You (New York University), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Alexander Sahn (UC Berkeley), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-21 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Ashley Jardina (Duke University), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-20 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Larry N. George (CSU Long Beach), Political Theory Workshop
2019-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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Nazita Lajevardi (Michigan State University), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-15 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture presented by Larissa MacFarquhar
2019-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 | California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Michael Chwe
Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to attend the 32nd annual
BOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE
“HOMETOWN:
Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay, and Those Who Go Back”
presented by
Larissa MacFarquhar
Staff writer, The New Yorker
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:00 p.m.
Reception to follow
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
UCLA

Davin Phoenix (UC Irvine), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-13 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Jennifer Cryer (Stanford University), Recruitment Job Talk
2019-11-07 12:00 - 13:30 | 4357 Bunche Hall, 4357 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Political Science Commencement 2019
2019-06-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Commencement Speaker: Howard Welinsky ’72
Howard Welinsky is the former Senior Vice President/Administration for Warner Bros. Distributing. His career at Warner Bros. spanned 42 years, where he rose through the ranks from Sales Analyst. He is active in Democratic Party politics, having served on the State Democratic Central Committee since 1977 and chairing the Platform Committee for the past ten years. He has been a delegate to three National Democratic Conventions and served on the Platform Committee for four others. He has long advocated for his twin passions of higher education and Israel. Welinsky served on the California Postsecondary Commission for 11 years, and he co-founded the California Coalition for Public Higher Education. He lives in Toluca Lake with his wife Karren Ganstwig, also a UCLA alum. They were married on campus.
What has UCLA meant to you?
I have always been proud of my UCLA degree. UCLA is such a special place that combines the pursuit of truth and excellence with great humanity. It’s a place where so many first-generation students like me are given a chance to soar.

Commencement live stream will be available at the department’s Facebook page here
The College of Letters and Science Commencement Contact Information page contains multiple links to Message Center topic queues: http://www.college.ucla.edu/commencement/help/contact/
Information for graduates and guests the day of commencement:
On Sunday, June 16, 2019, graduates assemble at the LATC (Los Angeles Tennis Center). Please arrive by 8:00 AM. Enter through GATE B off Bruin Walk.
A processional into Pauley Pavilion will begin promptly at 8:45 AM.
As graduates arrive to the assembly area name cards will be distributed. The name cards include a line for the phonetic spelling of your name to assure that announcers pronounce your name appropriately.
During the ceremony graduates are guided to the stage by event staff and hand their name card to a photographer’s assistant. Faculty members rotate announcing names as graduates walk across the stage. A photography company called GradImages uses the flip side of the card to collect addresses which are used to send photos taken as graduates prepare to step onto the stage, stand center stage and after stepping down from the stage.
Approximately 425 graduates are expected to participate along with 3,000 guests. Guests should arrive an hour before the event. Seating is unassigned and is first come, first seated. The doors of Pauley Pavilion open at 8:00 AM. There are several ceremonies scheduled that morning so guests should allow ample time to park, walk to Pauley Pavilion, and find a seat. The event is anticipated to be 90 to 120 minutes.
SECURITY PRECAUTIONS DURING COMMENCEMENT
Although UCLA does not anticipate any security problems during Commencement, we are constantly monitoring the events to protect the safety and security of our guests. Please observe the following restrictions for all Commencement Activities on the UCLA Campus.

No large bags, back packs, large purses or items larger than 12 x 12
No firearms, knives, explosives or other weapons
No cans, coolers and other containers except in cases of medical need, as certified by a physician
No artificial noise makers, air horns or megaphones may be used
No large signs, flags, poles, banners, or laser pointers
No promotional items with commercial slogans or identification
No food or drinks are allowed in the individual commencement venues
Inspections of small receptacles (bags) might be required as you enter event venues
All Commencement venues have the authority to prohibit any other items deemed to be a security risk. Patrons will not be allowed to bring those items inside the event venues
These policies are subject to change without notice

Winter campus closure begins, December 24, 2014 – Wednesday
2018-12-26 00:00 | CA
Winter campus closure begins, December 24, 2014 – Wednesday
DateDecember 24, 2014
Time6:00am
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Fall Quarter ends, December 19, 2014 – Friday
2018-12-21 00:00 | CA
Fall Quarter ends, December 19, 2014 – Friday
DateDecember 19, 2014
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Demetra Kasimis
2018-12-14 00:00 | CA
Demetra Kasimis
DateDecember 8, 2017
Time4:00pm to 6:00pm
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