Hobbes and Natural Law in Context DateApril 25, 2014 Time9:00am to 10:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Early-to-mid-seventeenth century Englishmen (1620-51) debated and contested natural law within what I call the Pauline framework. After unearthing this framework, I locate Hobbes's account of natural law within it and discuss how this reading of Hobbesian natural law […]
A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate DateApril 25, 2014 Time9:30am to 5:00pm Location UCLA School of Law Contact Title: "A Symposium on Privacy and Security: UCLA Joins the National Debate"Abstract: On Friday, April 25 the UCLA Department of Political Science, the UCLA School of Law, and the Office of Information Technology brought […]
Political Theory Workshop with Claudia Moatti DateApril 24, 2015 Time4:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Claudia Moatti, USC and Université Paris VIIIRespondent:Anthony Pagden, UCLATitle: “Saving the City: Roman Ideas on the Permanence of the ‘Public Thing’”Abstract:At the end of the Roman Republic, the issue of the permanence of the “public thing” is […]
REP Workshop - Paul Apostolidis DateApril 22, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
PT Workshop - Simone Chambers, UC Irvine DateApril 21, 2017 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:Deliberative democracy often includes an unrealistic ethical and/or psychological expectation that individuals be willing to revise their positions in light of counter arguments and alternative reasoning. Public reason advocates introduce an equally unrealistic standard of public debate […]
In Your Face Politics DateApril 28, 2014 Time5:00am to 6:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Journalists and academics regularly decry incivility in political discourse, and public opinion polls suggest that average Americans share a similar disdain. Foundations and civic groups likewise fund initiatives to call attention to this problem. Even politicians themselves express concerns about […]
American Politics Workshop with Cheryl Boudreau DateApril 27, 2015 Time4:00pm to 5:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Cheryl Boudreau, UC DavisTitle:"Racial or Spatial Voting? The Effects of Candidate Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Endorsements in Low-Information Elections"Abstract:Voters face difficult choices in elections where party labels do not distinguish the candidates’ ideological positions. […]
Comparative Politics Workshop with David Laitin DateApril 27, 2015 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:David Laitin, Stanford UniversityTitle: “Language Policy and Human Development”Abstract: explore how language policy affects the socio-economic development of nation-states through two channels: the individual’s exposure to and (in reference to an individual’s mother tongue) linguistic distance from the […]
AP Workshop - Robert Van Houweling DateApril 25, 2016 Time3:00pm to 5:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
CP Workshop - Laura Paler DateApril 25, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:While there is a growing literature on the determinants of ex-combatant reintegration, few studies have examined why former combatants turn to criminal activity following demobilization. This paper investigates the economic, security, psychological, and social determinants of criminality among demobilized […]
