Seminars

Studies in Political and Social Thought

Year Founded 1968

Seminar # 427

StatusActive

The current diversity and vitality of the field of political theory is reflected in the wide-ranging interests of the seminar. In recent years this seminar has explored a broad spectrum of topics and modes of discourse, including methodological analyses in historiography and the philosophy of social science, specific historical and conceptual studies of particular thinkers and ideas, and exercises in ‘applied’ political theory dealing with contemporary issues of social and public policy.

Chair/s

David Johnston

dcj1@columbia.edu

Karuna Mantena

km3510@columbia.edu

Daniel Luban

dhl2140@columbia.edu

Rapporteur/s

Mayaki Kimba

msk2253@columbia.edu

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11
Sep

September 11, 20262:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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16
Oct

October 16, 20262:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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13
Nov

November 13, 20262:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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11
Dec

December 11, 20262:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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05
Feb

February 5, 20272:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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05
Mar

March 5, 20272:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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02
Apr

April 2, 20272:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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May

May 7, 20272:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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17
Apr

April 17, 20264:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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The Rise and Fall of Liberal World Orders

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Speaker/s

Isaac Nakhimovsky

James Stafford

Susan Pedersen

Karuna Mantena

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A roundtable on Isaac Nakhimovsky's The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (2024) examining what the Holy Alliance reveals about past and present eff arts to build pacific federations and global institutions-the aspirations that animate them and the tensions that undo them.

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13
Mar

March 13, 20262:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Brandon Terry’s Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope

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06
Feb

February 6, 20262:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Jacob Abolafia’s The Prison before the Panopticon

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12
Dec

December 12, 20253:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx

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14
Nov

November 14, 20253:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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The German Question

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Clara Maier, Columbia University

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31
Oct

October 31, 20253:00 pm - 5:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 707

Columbia University

Natasha Wheatley’s The Life and Death of States

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