The 2025 Yan P. Lin Centre Annual Lecture
Wednesday March 26th, 2025 鈥� Faculty Club Ballroom
Anthony Kaldellis (U Chicago): Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity鈥�
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies events 2024-2025.
Coordinator: Jacob Levy
Thursday, August 29, 2024 鈥� Ferrier 422
RGCS Works in Progress workshops: Will Roberts, "Ideology"
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Thursday, September 19, 2024 鈥� Ferrier 422
RGCS Works in Progress workshops: Yann Allard-Tremblay and Elaine Coburn, '鈥淎 Cursed Line of Mestizos and Tremendous Whores鈥�; the Underside of the Politics of Indigenous Realness'
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Thursday, October 24, 2024 鈥� Thomson House Ballroom
RGCS Lecture Series: David Schmitdz (Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University): "Living with Purpose"
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Thursday, November 7, 2024 鈥� Leacock 232
RGCS Lecture Series: Richard Bellamy (UCL): "The Rule of Law as the Democratic Rule of Persons"
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Friday, November 15, 2024 鈥� SHB 688
Manuscript Workshop: William Tilleczek 鈥淭he City and Self-Transformation: Michel Foucault and the Political Theory of Asceticism鈥� with Sophie Bourgault (U Ottawa), Niki Clement (Rice University), Margaret Kohn (U of Toronto), Dimitri M鈥橞ama (UdM), Laurence McFalls (UdM), William Roberts.
Co-sponsored by Le centre canadien d鈥櫭﹖udes allemandes et europ茅ennes (Universit茅 de Montr茅al).
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Thursday, November 21, 2024 鈥� Ferrier 422
RGCS Works in Progress workshops: Xavier Boileau, "Co-determination: A Central Feature of Multinational Federation"
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Thursday, February 6, 2025 鈥� Thomson House Ballroom
RGCS Lecture Series: Avigail Eisenberg (Victoria): 鈥淢isunderstanding Self-Government: Laura Kellogg and the Corporation as a Self-Governing Community鈥�
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Thursday, March 20, 2025鈥� Thomson House Ballroom
RGCS Lecture Series: Sean Ingham (UCSD): "The Democrat's Dilemma: A Theory of Institutional Forbearance and Democratic Stability"
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 - Waxman Common Room, Old Chancellor Day Hall
RGCS Works in Progress workshops: Daniel Sherwin, Decolonizing Democratic Theory: A Democratic Case for Unelected Indigenous Governments
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Friday, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th
Political Theory in/and/as Political Science Junior Scholars Workshop
Participants: Arash Abizadeh (黑料不打烊), Jacob Abolafia (Ben-Gurion), Samuel Bagg (University of South Carolina), Daniel Ferris (Newcastle), Jack Knight (Duke), Jacob Levy (黑料不打烊), Alison McQueen (Stanford), Justin Pottle (Loyola University Chicago), Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU), Daniel Sherwin (黑料不打烊/ Mount Royal), Valerie Soon (UCSD), Daniel Stephens (Buffalo) Bernardo Zacka (MIT).
Co-funded with a SSHRC Connection Grant
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Research Group on Global Justice events 2024-2025.
Coordinator: Catherine Lu
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Tuesday, September 24 鈥� Wednesday, September 25, 2024 鈥� Thompson House Ballroom
"Practical, Political, and Institutional Progress" Conference
With the participation of Arash Abizadeh. Martin Armstrong (Murray State University). Aberdeen Berry, Megan Bradley, Amandine Catala (UQAM), Ryoa Chung (Universit茅 de Montr茅al), Rainer Forst (Freie Universit盲t Berlin), Kelly Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jacob Levy, Catherine Lu, Samantha Puzzi, Natalie Stoljar, Anna Stilz (UC Berkeley), Agnes Tam (University of Calgary), In茅s Valdez (Johns Hopkins), Ophelia Vedder (Princeton), Daniel Weinstock, Yves Winter.
Co-sponsors: Centre de Recherche en 脡thique (CR脡), Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP), and Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) of the Yan P. Lin Centre. Princeton University Department of Politics, Johns Hopkins University, Goethe Universit盲t Frankfurt, and Freie Universit盲t Berlin.
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Friday, January 17 鈥� Peterson Hall 116
Denise van der Kamp (Oxford): "The prospect for equitable green transitions in rapidly industrializing countries"
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Friday, March 21st 鈥� Leacock 232
Hagar Kotef (SOAS): 鈥淭he Fact of Torture: Narrations of (In)Justice in the Interrogation Logs of Israel's General Security Services鈥�
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Thursday, April 10th 鈥� Arts 150
D茅sir茅e Lim (Penn State) 鈥淒isplaying with Dignity: The Ethics of Exhibiting Human Remains鈥�
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Thursday, May 1st and Friday, May 2nd 鈥� 黑料不打烊 Faculty Club Billiard Room
The Politics of M茅tissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities
Participants : Yann Allard-Tremblay (黑料不打烊 University), Kelsey Brady (UBC), Elaine Coburn (York), Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer, Tania Islas Weinstein (黑料不打烊 University), Emma LaRocque (U Manitoba), Bonita Lawrence (York), Tyler Loohuizen (黑料不打烊 University), Daniel Luna (UofT), Catherine Lu (黑料不打烊), Yasmine Mathurin, John McGuire (University College Dublin), Aaron Mills (黑料不打烊), Ma茂ka Sondarjee (U Ottawa), Dale Turner (UofT), Melissa Williams (UofT)
Co-sponsored by Centre de recherche en 茅thique (CR脡), The Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI), Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP) and the Dean of Arts Development Fund.
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Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities events 2024-2025
Coordinators: Anastassios Anastassiadis and Lorenz L眉thi
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Friday, November 15, 2024 鈥� Faculty Club Billiard Room
Rupture and Continuity in History: A Public Symposium
Participants: Edward Dunsworth, Cecily Hilsdale, Juliet Jonhson, Brahm Kleinman, Lorenz L眉thi and Darian Totten.
Co-sponsored by RGGP
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Friday, March 14th 鈥� Faculty Club Billiard Room
Workshop - Infiltrators: The Mainstreaming of the Far-Right in the Americas
Participants: Subho Basu (黑料不打烊 University), Jacob Blanc (黑料不打烊 University) C茅sar Castillo-Garc铆a (Wesleyan University), Nicole Hemmer (Vanderbilt University), Piotr Kosicki (University of Maryland), Will Langford (Dalhousie University), Becca Lewis (Stanford University), Lorenz L眉thi (黑料不打烊 University), Andre Pagliarini (Louisiana State University), Mack Penner (University of Calgary), Kirsten Weld (Harvard University)
Keynote: Quinn Slobodian (Boston University): 鈥淎 Global History of Elon Musk鈥�.
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Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology events 2024-2025
Coordinator: Ipek Tureli
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall, Room 108
American Glass Factory: A lecture-performance by Jason Fox
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Monday, October 28, 2024 鈥� Leacock 232
Ussama Makdisi (UC Berkeley) : 鈥淥verwriting Palestine: History, Genocide and Denial Today鈥�
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - screening at 黑料不打烊 University of Map Your Love (Oct 29, 2024), a film produced by 75 Shots.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 鈥� Online
Creating Visual Archives for/of Palestine
Participants: Jessica Anderson (Visualizing Palestine) 鈥淒ata Storytelling for Palestinian Liberation鈥� and Nisreen Zahda (VRJ Palestine) 鈥淰irtual Reconstructions of Palestine鈥�
Moderated by Patricia Morton (UC Riverside) and Ipek T眉reli (黑料不打烊 University)
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Thursday, March 27th, 2025 鈥� Macdonald Harrington Building
Maison de la Nuit and Institutions for Night Cultures Roundtable
Participants: Sonia Blank (ASFQ), Martin Chartrand (MTL24/24), David Mulder van der Vegt (XML), Thomas Peltier (City of Montreal), Will Straw (黑料不打烊 University), Alanna Thain (黑料不打烊 University), Ipek T眉reli (黑料不打烊 University). /night-time-design/our-work/maison-de-la-nuit-roundtable
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30 April 鈥� 2 May 鈥� University of Toronto, John Daniels Faculty of Architecture
RGDST members Prof. Alanna Thain, student assistants Dennis Ohm-Fickler, Renee Li, Emilia Abergel participated in the of the Partnership Project 鈥淨uality in Canada鈥檚 Built Environment.鈥� A short film produced by graduate student assistant Iris Pintiato and a poster produced by undergraduate research assists Emilia Abergel and Renee Li presented the project 鈥淣ighttime Design with Marginalized Communinites鈥� at the annual Partnership Convention hosted by the University of Toronto.
Partnership website:
黑料不打烊 team website: /night-time-design/our-work/maison-de-la-nuit-roundtable
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Wednesday, May 7th to Sunday May 11th, 2025 鈥� Peterson Hall
"Mackenzie Place" - A four-channel video installation by artist Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell
Co-Presented by: FIFEQ, Leadership for the Ecozoic, ERA Architects, UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of Art, CASCA
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Wednesday, May 14th 2025 鈥� Hybrid
T眉rkiye Earthquake Memory Project (TEMP) Workshop I
Participants: Faika 脟elik (Manisa Celal Bayar University), Andi Lin (黑料不打烊),Fatma 脰zdogan (UdM), Ramazan Pe莽e (Manisa Celal Bayar University), Ipek T眉reli (黑料不打烊), Karya Yilmaz (黑料不打烊)
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Research Group on Human Nature and Values in the Digital Age 2024-2025
Coordinator: Jocelyn Maclure and Chris Howard
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Friday, September 20, 2024 鈥� Leacock 738
Discussion on Gabriel & Manzini鈥檚 paper on the ethics of advanced AI assistants
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Friday, October 18, 2024 鈥� Thompson House Ballroom
Regina Rini (York University): "Science: The Intellectual Leviathan"
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Research Group on Global Pasts events 2024-2025
Coordinator: Cecily Hilsdale and Darian Dotten
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Friday, October 25, 2024 鈥� Bombardier Theatre, McCord Museum
2024 Outreach Lecture: B茅r茅nice Bellina (CNRS/TEMPS): 鈥淕lobalization and Localization along the eastern part of the Maritime Silk Road: from the Neolithic to the Early Historical period鈥�
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Monday, November 18, 2024 - Peterson Hall 116
2024 Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop with three recipients of the first annual Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Student Stipends. Participants: Briar Bennett-Flammer (History and Classical Studies), Madison Clyburn (Art History and Communication Studies) and Davin Luce (Art History and Communication Studies).
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Monday, March 31st, 2025 鈥� Trottier 1100
Carolina L贸pez-Ruiz (U Chicago): "How to be a Phoenician in the far west Mediterranean: seascapes, mythologies, interactions"
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 - Leacock 738
Student seminar with Carolina L贸pez-Ruiz (U Chicago)