One-day book workshop on Elizabeth Ashford's Hunger’s Witting Executioners: Structural Violations of the Right to Subsistence Pre-read: workshop participants will be expected to read the book manuscript distributed in advance. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Schedule: 10:30am to noon: discussion Lunch break (free time) 1:30pm to 3pm: discussion
Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: What’s wrong with teaching our children to be good citizens? Abstract: Character education is a common part of schooling in the U.S. and U.K., and one popular argument in favour of character education is that it is conducive to producing citizens who have the virtues that make someone a ... Read more
Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Ideology, Culture, and Social Meaning Abstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition. This conception of ideology is a response to a particular challenge for those working on social justice: Why is it that most of us, most ... Read more
Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race, and Class Abstract: Dissatisfied with identity-based politics, many activists and intellectuals are now seeking larger paradigms that can unify disparate struggles. Aiming to advance that project, I propose that labor forms the hidden link between gender, race, and ... Read more
For S1 of 2022-23, we are reading Wendell’s The Rejected Body. Day/time: Wednesdays 10-11am (starting the 5th of October). Location: Teams. Organizer: Lara Jost (laj7).
Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Laissez-Faire Democracy? Reasons to Regulate Votes Abstract: Most economists and political philosophers accept a simple argument for empowering governments to regulate citizens’ and private firms’ economic activity: Markets, they say, suffer from various market failures. In many such cases, governments can correct or prevent these market failures through various interventions ... Read more