Fordham Workshop 
in Social and Political Philosophy

Organized by Jeff Flynn, Samir Haddad, and Shiloh Whitney
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Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7:00 at the Lincoln Center campus.  All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending, contact  [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]. When meetings are in hybrid form, Zoom details will be sent out prior to the meeting.
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2025-26

  • September 16 - Clifton Granby (Yale Divinity School), "Epistemic Deference and the Politics of Racial Listening"
  • October 21 -  Ayten Gündoğdu (Barnard) - "Racial Bureaucracy: Routinizing 'Administrative Massacres' Under Imperial Rule and Border Governance"
  • November 18 - Erin Kelly (Tufts/Princeton UCHV 2025-26) - “A Democratic Theory of Criminal Law”​
  • February 10 - Nadia Yala Kisukidi (NYU)
  • Additional spring meetings TBD

2024-25

  • ​September 17 - Willy Moka Mubelo (Université Loyola Du Congo; Visiting Loyola Chair, Fordham), "The Politics of Zombification: Understanding Political Regimes in Africa"
  • October 22 - Annette Martín (UIC/Princeton UCHV 2024-25), "How Gender Is A Cage and Why It Needn’t Be: Aiming for Liberatory Gender Over Gender Abolition"
  • ​November 19 - Nancy Fraser (New School), “Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties between Gender, Race, and Class”
  • February 11 - Laura Specker Sullivan (Fordham), "A Functional-Behavioral Account of Trust”
  • March 4 - David Owen (Southampton/IAS Visiting Professor 2024-25), "On Vindication in Politics"
  • April 8 - Jason Wozniak (West Chester University), "The Miseducation of the Indebted Student"

2023-24

  • September 12 - Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard), "Rethinking Domination in the Age of the Externality"
  • October 3 - Martin  Saar (Goethe University, Frankfurt), "Critical Theory after the Ontological Turn"
  • November 14 - Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern/IAS 2023-24), "Revocability, Exception, Disqualification: Grammars of Power After Dobbs"
  • February 6 - Christopher Myers (Fordham), "Nietzsche and the Politics of the Historical Dead"
  • March 12 - Tracy Llanera (UConn), "The Misfits of White Extremism: On Women."
  • April 16 - Ashley Bohrer (Notre Dame), "Capitalism's Collectivities: States, Settlers, and the Colonial Commons"

2022-23

  • September 20 - Miguel Vatter (Deakin), “Planetary Health and the Biopolitics of Home”
  • October 11 - María Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), "Feminism as a Concept of Movement: The Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of Feminist Global Activism" 
  • November 8 - Michael Omoge (Alberta), "Epistemic Injustices in Philosophical Practices: African and Western"
  • January 31 - Lynn Huffer (Emory/IAS 2022-23), "Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments"
  • March 21 - Desiree Valentine (Marquette/Princeton UCHV 2022-23), “Reparations for Reproductive Slavery and its Afterlives.”​
  • April 18 - Elvira Basevich (UC Davis/Princeton UCHV 2022-23), "A Duboisian Critique of Private Property: On Democracy and Economic Independence in the Reconstruction Era."

2021-22

  • September 28 - Colin Koopman (Oregon), "Galton’s Pride & Du Bois’s Pursuit: The Resilience of Data-Driven Inequality"
  • October 26 - María del Rosario Acosta López (UC Riverside), "Gramáticas de lo inaudito as Decolonial Grammars: Notes for a Decolonization of Memory"
  • November 9 - Derrick Darby (Rutgers) & Eduardo Martinez (Cincinnati), "Making Identities Safe for Democracy"
  • February 15 - Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz), "Corporeal Critique"
  • March 8 - Gwen Daugs (Fordham), "Moral Panic and Bathrooms: The Biopolitics of Transphobia"
  • April 5 - Delio Vasquez (NYU), “Concerning the Influence of Fanon on Foucault: Towards a First World Decolonization”

2020-21

  • September 15 - Sina Kramer (Loyola Marymount), "How to Read a City: Toward a Political Epistemology of Gentrification"​
  • October 13 - Kris Sealey (Fairfield), “Roots and Routes: Negotiating Creolization and Indigeneity in the Americas”
  • November 10 - David Lay Williams (DePaul), “'Too much abundance in one or a few private men': Hobbes on Inequality and the Concentration of Wealth"​
  • February 9 - Jill Stauffer (Haverford), "How to be the Crux of a Diachronic Plot: Levinas, Questions and Answers, and Child Soldiering in International Law, in Four Acts"
  • March 9 - Joel Michael Reynolds (Georgetown), "Saving All Animals from Dehumanization: On Speciesism, Disability, and the Utilitarian Dilemma"
  • April 27 - Amy Allen (Penn State), "Marxism and Progress"​​​

2019-20

  • September 24 - Rosaura Martínez Ruiz (UNAM), "Alterability and Writing. Rethinking an Ontology of Dependency"
  • October 15 - Jesús Luzardo (Fordham), "The Wages of the Past: Whiteness, Nostalgia, and Property"
  • November 19 - Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse), "Conceptualizing Terrorism 'From Below': Lynching as Racial Terrorism"
  • February 11 - Ayça Çubukçu (LSE), “Of Rebels and Disobedients: Reflections on Arendt, ‘Race’ and Lawbreaking”​​

2018-19

  • September 18 - Cristina Beltrán (NYU), “Latinos, Immigration, and the Return of Herrenvolk Democracy"
  • October 9 - Jennifer Scuro (New Rochelle), “Mapping Ableist Biases: Diagnoses and Prostheses”
  • November 6 - Lillian Cicerchia (Fordham), "Class Inequality and Democracy after Structuralism"
  • April 9 - Ann Murphy (New Mexico), "Hunger on Campus:  Continental Philosophy and Basic Needs"
  • April 16 - Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt/IAS 2018-19), "Criticism and Its Discontents: A Defense of an Immanent Critique of Forms of Life"
  • May 7 - Robin Celikates (Amsterdam/IAS 2018-19), "Radical Civility? Civil Disobedience and the Ideology of Non-Violence"

2017-18

  • September 26 - Matthias Fritsch (Concordia), "Deconstructive Normativity"
  • October 10 - Anne O'Byrne (Stony Brook), "Genocide: Can a Political Problem have an Ethical Solution?"
  • November 7 - Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney), "Why is Spinoza an Epicurean?"
  • February 13 - Candice Delmas (Northeastern), "In Defense of Uncivil Disobedience"
  • ​March 13 - Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia), "Delany’s Two Principles, the Argument for Emigration, and Revolutionary Black Nationalism"
  • April 17 - Serene Khader (Brooklyn College/CUNY Grad Center)​​, "The Conservatism of Socially Constitutive Autonomy"

2016-17

  • October 11 - Karen Ng (Vanderbilt), "Social Freedom as Ideology: Honneth and Mills"
  • November 15 - Carol Gould (Hunter College/CUNY Grad Center), "Motivating Solidarity with Distant Others: Empathic Politics, Responsibility, and the Problem of Global Justice"
  • November 29 - Shiloh Whitney (Fordham), "Byproductive Labor: A Feminist Theory of Affective Labor Beyond the Productive-Reproductive Distinction"
  • ​April 11 - Rainer Forst (Frankfurt), "The Justification of Basic Rights: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach"
  • ​​April 18 - Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong), "Pragmatic Confucian Democracy"

Spring 2016

  • January 26 - Rodrigo Nunes (PUC-Rio), ​"One or Two Melancholias?: The Eclipse of the Organizationsfrage as Symptom"
  • March 30 - Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), "Ressentiment and/as Voluntary Servitude"
  • April 26 - Elizabeth Edenberg (Fordham), "Growing up Sexist: Challenges to Rawlsian Stability"​​

​Funding for the Workshop has been provided by the Fordham Philosophy Department and
the Deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Fordham College at Lincoln Center.