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SUMMARY:Special Comparative Politics Seminar: Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany by Daniel Gingerich and Jan Vogler
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:  Daniel Gingerich and Jan Vogler\, University of Virginia \nTitle:  Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany \nTopic:  CP Special Seminar \nTime:  Thursday\, February 11th; 11:00am PST \n  \nZOOM LINK: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/8217815316?pwd=dlU4enhrUTVBOVFSUFhRamJsd2dwdz09 \n  \nMeeting ID:  821 781 5316 \nPasscode:  4289 \n  \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (San Jose) \n  \nLink to paper:  http://www.janvogler.net/Pandemics_Political_Development.pdf
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/special-comparative-politics-seminar-pandemics-and-political-development-the-electoral-legacy-of-the-black-death-in-germany-by-daniel-gingerich-and-jan-vogler/
LOCATION:CA
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T160000
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop: Galton’s Pride: The Resilience of Data-Driven Inequality by Colin Koopman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Colin Koopman\, University of Oregon \nTitle:  Galton’s Pride: The Resilience of Data-Driven Inequality \nTopic:  PT Workshop \nTime:  Friday\, February 26th; 4:00pm PST \n  \nZOOM LINK: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/8217815316?pwd=dlU4enhrUTVBOVFSUFhRamJsd2dwdz09 \n  \nMeeting ID:  821 781 5316 \nPasscode:  4289 \n  \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (San Jose) \n——————– \n  \n  \nThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at \nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop \n  \nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory \n \n  \nAbstract: \nFrancis 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.
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-galtons-pride-the-resilience-of-data-driven-inequality-by-colin-koopman/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop: Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism\, Democracy\, Freedom by Neil Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Neil Roberts\, Williams College \nTitle:  Angela Y. Davis: Abolitionism\, Democracy\, Freedom \nTopic:  PT Workshop \nTime:  Friday\, March 12th; 4:00pm PST \n  \n*Professor Roberts’ attached paper is a chapter from the recently published book  \nAfrican American Political Thought: A Collected History\, Edited by Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner* \n  \nZOOM LINK: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/8217815316?pwd=dlU4enhrUTVBOVFSUFhRamJsd2dwdz09 \n  \nMeeting ID:  821 781 5316 \nPasscode:  4289 \n  \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (San Jose) \n——————– \n  \n  \nThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at \nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop \n  \nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory \n \n  \nAbstract: \nThe 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. \n  \n———————————————————- \nBelinda Sunnu \nSpecial Events Coordinator/Recruitment \nUCLA Department of Political Science \n4289 Bunche Hall\, Box 951472 \nLos Angeles\, CA  90095-1472 \n310-206-7558 (Phone) \n310-825-0778 (Fax) \n———————————————————- \n 
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-angela-y-davis-abolitionism-democracy-freedom-by-neil-roberts/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture - Anna Spain Bradley
DESCRIPTION:Click to RSVP
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/wolfenstein-memorial-lecture-anna-spain-bradley/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop: “Quite obscure until now:” Montesquieu’s constitutional history\, foundings\, and the modern state by Jacob Levy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Jacob Levy\, McGill University \nTitle:  “Quite obscure until now:” Montesquieu’s constitutional history\, foundings\, and the modern state \nTopic:  PT Workshop \nTime:  Friday\, April 16th; 4:00pm PST \n  \nZOOM LINK: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/8217815316?pwd=dlU4enhrUTVBOVFSUFhRamJsd2dwdz09 \n  \nMeeting ID:  821 781 5316 \nPasscode:  4289 \n  \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (San Jose) \n——————– \n  \n  \nThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at \nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop \n  \nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory \n \n  \nAbstract: \nThe 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.
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-quite-obscure-until-now-montesquieus-constitutional-history-foundings-and-the-modern-state-by-jacob-levy/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop: "The Use of Love" by Lida Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Lida Maxwell\, Boston University \nTitle:  The Use of Love \nTopic:  PT Workshop \nTime:  Friday\, May 21st; 4:00pm PST \n  \n*Please note that the attached chapter is from Professor Maxwell’s book project on queer love* \n  \nZOOM LINK: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/8217815316?pwd=dlU4enhrUTVBOVFSUFhRamJsd2dwdz09 \n  \nMeeting ID:  821 781 5316 \nPasscode:  4289 \n  \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (San Jose) \n——————– \n  \n  \nThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at \nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop \n  \nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory \n \n  \nAbstract: \nThis 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.
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-the-use-of-love-by-lida-maxwell/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop: "Out of Line: Line-Standing\, Queues\, and Distributive Justice" by Elizabeth Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Elizabeth Cohen\, Syracuse University \nTitle:  Out of Line: Line-Standing\, Queues\, and Distributive Justice \nTopic:  PT Workshop \nTime:  Friday\, June 4th; 4:00pm PST \n  \nZOOM LINK: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/8217815316?pwd=dlU4enhrUTVBOVFSUFhRamJsd2dwdz09 \n  \nMeeting ID:  821 781 5316 \nPasscode:  4289 \n  \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,8217815316#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,4289# US (San Jose) \n——————– \n  \n  \nThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at \nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop \n  \nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory \n \n  \nAbstract: \nTime 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.
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-out-of-line-line-standing-queues-and-distributive-justice-by-elizabeth-cohen/
LOCATION:Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop on 2/17/2023 (Lisa Disch)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Lisa Disch\, University of Michigan\nTitle:  Responsiveness in Reverse\nTopic:  PT Workshop\nTime:  Friday\, February 17th; 4:00pmThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at\nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop\nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory\nAbstract:\nClassic accounts of representative democracy describe an interest-first model according to which constituencies form around things they want and elected representatives respond to their demands. Research into political knowledge and preference formation shows that in practice\, responsiveness goes the other way. In mass democracies\, acts of political representation often do not take constituencies and their interests as a starting point. Representatives of all kinds participate in forming group identities\, crafting political demands\, and defining political cleavages. In such a context\, the model of interest-first representation and the responsiveness ideal set representative democracy up to fail: they create expectations about “competence” that most individuals cannot and need not meet. I propose a mobilization conception of political representation and defend a dynamic account of constituency making to shift those expectations.
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-on-2-17-2023-lisa-disch/
LOCATION:CA
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Political Theory Workshop (3/3/23) - Alexander Diones (Loyola Marymount University)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Alexander Diones\, Loyola Marymount University\nTitle: Criticism and Self-Criticism: The Combahee River Collective and the Critique of Global Maoism\nTopic:  PT Workshop\nTime:  Friday\, March 3rd; 4:00pm \nThe password-protected paper is both attached and available on the PT website at\nhttps://polisci.ucla.edu/events/workshops/political-theory-workshop\nThe password is (case-sensitive) UCLAtheory \nAbstract:\nHow do we conceive of solidarity when we’re conditioned to treating one another as antagonists? To answer this question\, I turn to the Combahee River Collective’s “Statement\,” particularly its theory of what the authors call “criticism and loathing.” Building on recent scholarship on the collective’s place in the intellectual history of global Maoism\, this essay argues that the account of criticism contained in this phrase should be thought of as both a reformulation of Maoist theories of vanguard politics and a claim about the relation of identity and solidarity.
URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/political-theory-workshop-3-3-23-alexander-diones-loyola-marymount-university/
LOCATION:CA
ORGANIZER;CN="Belinda Sunnu":MAILTO:bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T170000
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SUMMARY:34th Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture
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URL:https://polisci.ucla.edu/event/34th-bollens-ries-hoffenberg-lecture/
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center\, Founders Room\, UCLA\, James West Alumni Center\, Founders Room\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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