The 2025 Yan P. Lin Centre Annual Lecture
Wednesday March 26th, 2025 – Faculty Club Ballroom
Anthony Kaldellis (U Chicago): Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies events 2024-2025.
Coordinator: Jacob Levy
Thursday, August 29, 2024 – Ferrier 422
RGCS Works in Progress workshops: Will Roberts, "Ideology"
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Thursday, September 19, 2024 – Ferrier 422
RGCS Works in Progress workshops: Yann Allard-Tremblay and Elaine Coburn, '“A Cursed Line of Mestizos and Tremendous Whores”; the Underside of the Politics of Indigenous Realness'
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Thursday, October 24, 2024 – 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 – 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 – SHB 688
Manuscript Workshop: William Tilleczek “The City and Self-Transformation: Michel Foucault and the Political Theory of Asceticism” with Sophie Bourgault (U Ottawa), Niki Clement (Rice University), Margaret Kohn (U of Toronto), Dimitri M’Bama (UdM), Laurence McFalls (UdM), William Roberts.
Co-sponsored by Le centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes (Université de Montréal).
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Thursday, November 21, 2024 – 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 – Thomson House Ballroom
RGCS Lecture Series: Avigail Eisenberg (Victoria): “Misunderstanding Self-Government: Laura Kellogg and the Corporation as a Self-Governing Community”
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Thursday, March 20, 2025– 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 (91ÉçÇř), Jacob Abolafia (Ben-Gurion), Samuel Bagg (University of South Carolina), Daniel Ferris (Newcastle), Jack Knight (Duke), Jacob Levy (91ÉçÇř), Alison McQueen (Stanford), Justin Pottle (Loyola University Chicago), Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU), Daniel Sherwin (91ÉçÇř/ 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 – Wednesday, September 25, 2024 – 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 (Université de Montréal), Rainer Forst (Freie Universität Berlin), Kelly Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jacob Levy, Catherine Lu, Samantha Puzzi, Natalie Stoljar, Anna Stilz (UC Berkeley), Agnes Tam (University of Calgary), Inés Valdez (Johns Hopkins), Ophelia Vedder (Princeton), Daniel Weinstock, Yves Winter.
Co-sponsors: Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ), 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 Universität Frankfurt, and Freie Universität Berlin.
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Friday, January 17 – 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 – Leacock 232
Hagar Kotef (SOAS): “The Fact of Torture: Narrations of (In)Justice in the Interrogation Logs of Israel's General Security Services”
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Thursday, April 10th – Arts 150
Désirée Lim (Penn State) “Displaying with Dignity: The Ethics of Exhibiting Human Remains”
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Thursday, May 1st and Friday, May 2nd – 91ÉçÇř Faculty Club Billiard Room
The Politics of MĂ©tissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities
Participants : Yann Allard-Tremblay (91ÉçÇř), Kelsey Brady (UBC), Elaine Coburn (York), Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer, Tania Islas Weinstein (91ÉçÇř), Emma LaRocque (U Manitoba), Bonita Lawrence (York), Tyler Loohuizen (91ÉçÇř), Daniel Luna (UofT), Catherine Lu (91ÉçÇř), Yasmine Mathurin, John McGuire (University College Dublin), Aaron Mills (91ÉçÇř), MaĂŻka Sondarjee (U Ottawa), Dale Turner (UofT), Melissa Williams (UofT)
Co-sponsored by Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), 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 LĂĽthi
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Friday, November 15, 2024 – Faculty Club Billiard Room
Rupture and Continuity in History: A Public Symposium
Participants: Edward Dunsworth, Cecily Hilsdale, Juliet Jonhson, Brahm Kleinman, Lorenz LĂĽthi and Darian Totten.
Co-sponsored by RGGP
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Friday, March 14th – Faculty Club Billiard Room
Workshop - Infiltrators: The Mainstreaming of the Far-Right in the Americas
Participants: Subho Basu (91ÉçÇř), Jacob Blanc (91ÉçÇř) CĂ©sar Castillo-GarcĂa (Wesleyan University), Nicole Hemmer (Vanderbilt University), Piotr Kosicki (University of Maryland), Will Langford (Dalhousie University), Becca Lewis (Stanford University), Lorenz LĂĽthi (91ÉçÇř), Andre Pagliarini (Louisiana State University), Mack Penner (University of Calgary), Kirsten Weld (Harvard University)
Keynote: Quinn Slobodian (Boston University): “A Global History of Elon Musk”.
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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 – Leacock 232
Ussama Makdisi (UC Berkeley) : “Overwriting Palestine: History, Genocide and Denial Today”
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - screening at 91ÉçÇř of Map Your Love (Oct 29, 2024), a film produced by 75 Shots.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 – Online
Creating Visual Archives for/of Palestine
Participants: Jessica Anderson (Visualizing Palestine) “Data Storytelling for Palestinian Liberation” and Nisreen Zahda (VRJ Palestine) “Virtual Reconstructions of Palestine”
Moderated by Patricia Morton (UC Riverside) and Ipek TĂĽreli (91ÉçÇř)
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Thursday, March 27th, 2025 – 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 (91ÉçÇř), Alanna Thain (91ÉçÇř), Ipek TĂĽreli (91ÉçÇř). /night-time-design/our-work/maison-de-la-nuit-roundtable
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30 April – 2 May – 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 “Quality in Canada’s Built Environment.” 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 “Nighttime Design with Marginalized Communinites” at the annual Partnership Convention hosted by the University of Toronto.
Partnership website:
91ÉçÇř team website: /night-time-design/our-work/maison-de-la-nuit-roundtable
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Wednesday, May 7th to Sunday May 11th, 2025 – 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 – Hybrid
TĂĽrkiye Earthquake Memory Project (TEMP) Workshop I
Participants: Faika Çelik (Manisa Celal Bayar University), Andi Lin (91ÉçÇř),Fatma Ă–zdogan (UdM), Ramazan Peçe (Manisa Celal Bayar University), Ipek TĂĽreli (91ÉçÇř), Karya Yilmaz (91ÉçÇř)
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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 – Leacock 738
Discussion on Gabriel & Manzini’s paper on the ethics of advanced AI assistants
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Friday, October 18, 2024 – 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 – Bombardier Theatre, McCord Museum
2024 Outreach Lecture: Bérénice Bellina (CNRS/TEMPS): “Globalization and Localization along the eastern part of the Maritime Silk Road: from the Neolithic to the Early Historical period”
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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 – Trottier 1100
Carolina LĂłpez-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 LĂłpez-Ruiz (U Chicago)