Political Theory Workshop
Winter 2026 (Coming Soon!)
All sessions will be held in person in the Walker Room (5th Floor, Haven Hall) from 2:00-3:30pm. If you would like a copy of the paper, or need accommodations in order to attend, please don't hesitate to reach out to our coordinators, Annie Heffernan (akheff@umich.edu) and David Temin (dtemin@umich.edu).
Ekaterina Olson Shipyatsky (PhD Student, University of Michigan)
“Geographizing and Temporalizing the Past: Museums as Theorists of Violence”
Loay Alarab (PhD Student, University of Michigan)
“The Figure of the Fighter in Arab Anticolonialism Archives”
Discussant: Onur Muftugil
Katrina Forrester (Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University)
“Marxist Feminism In and Against the State” (Virtual Session)
Discussant: TBA
Robin Celikates (Professor of Social Philosophy and Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin)
Title TBA
Discussant: Ekaterina Shipyatsky
Elena Gambino (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University)
“Medical Intervention: Research as 'Waystation' in the Midcentury Gay Press”
Discussant: Annie Heffernan
Jess Hasper (PhD Candidate, University of Michigan)
“Satyagraha ‘On the Spot’: Revisiting the Reception of a Traveling Theory in the Jane Crow South”
Discussant: Loay Alarab
Melynda Price (Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan)
“Afterlife of Black Motherhood: Clementine Barfield and Anti-Violence Organizing Among Black Mothers of Murdered Children in Detroit”
Sid Simpson (Associate Professor, Sewanee: University of the South)
“It Was Always Blood and Soil: Eco-Fascism and the Racial Capitalocene”
Discussant: David Temin
Amir Fleischmann
“The Sword and the Trowel: Workers’ Councils and the Rule of the Poor”
Discussant: TBA
Book Party: David Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty
Join us as we celebrate the publication of David Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Brief comments with be provided by Gregory Dowd, the Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture; and Bethany Hughes, Assistant Professor of American Culture. A reception will follow.
Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University)
“The Sovereign’s Wrath”
Discussant: Maria Lovetere
Guido Parietti (Michigan State)
“Power and Political Realism”
Discussant: Mika LaVaque-Manty
Matt McManus
“The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism: Oxymoron or the Real Deal?”
Discussant: Andy Murphy
Welcome Back
Gather with colleagues to catch up and meet our new theory students. Refreshments provided!