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Workshops

The Social and Political Theory Group conducts events of a longer duration, covering several sessions. In previous years, SPT has hosted Graduate Student Conferences, as well as workshops on such issues as Democracy, Environmental Ethics, and Feminist Political Theory. Details of these events are available in the archive.

FRIDAY 12th of AUGUST
SPT WORKSHOP
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eli Zaretsky
(New School University)
Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Chandran Kukathas
(University of Utah)
Kartini, Women, and Multiculturalism: Love and Freedom in the Thought of an Indonesian Feminist

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Afternoon Tea
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Nancy Fraser
(New School University)
Re-framing Justice in a Globalizing World

Enquiries: Bob Goodin goodinb@coombs.anu.edu.au

 

MONDAY 8th of AUGUST
SPT WORKSHOP
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Nancy Folbre
(University of Massachusetts) "Social Family Contracts and Patriarchal Capitalism"

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Afternoon Tea

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Iris Young
(University of Chicago) "Responsibility and Structural Injustice"

Enquiries: Bob Goodin goodinb@coombs.anu.edu.au

 

WEDNESDAY 20th July 2005
THE CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRACY' WORKSHOP
Seminar Room B, Coombs Bldg, ANU
9.00-10.30 Michael Saward
(Politics, Open University)
'Political Representation Revisited'

11.00-12.30: John Ferejohn
(Professor of Politics, Stanford)
The British Columbia citizens' Assembly: an Experiment in Direct Democracy

Enquiries: James Rice jmrice@coombs.anu.edu.au