November 3

Seema Jayachandran (Economics, Stanford University)
Title: "Odious Debt"
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

November 10

Larry Kramer (Law, Stanford University)
Title: "'The Interest of the Man': James Madison, Popular Constitutionalism, and the Theory of Deliberative Democracy"

November 17, 2006

John Bowen (Anthropology, Washington University at St. Louis)
Title: "If Citizenship is Community, then Which Communities Count?"

December 1, 2006

Josiah Ober (Political Science, Classics, Stanford University)
Title: "Competition, scale, and varieties of knowledge" [chapter 3 of a book in progress: Democratic Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens]

December 15, 2006

Sebastiano Maffetone (Columbia University)
Title: "Universal Duty and Global Justice"
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

January 12, 2007

Archon Fung (JFK School, Harvard University)
Title: Pragmatic Democracy: A Consequentialist Quest for Institutions of Self-Governance

January 19, 2007

Michael Blake (Philosophy, University of Washington)
Title: "Political Liberalism Abroad"
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice 

January 26, 2007

Seana Shiffrin (Philosophy, School of Law, UCLA)
Title: "Promising, Conventionalism, and Intimate Relationships"

February 2, 2007

Jennifer Rubenstein (Society of Fellows, Princeton University)
Title: "Distribution and Emergency" and "Pluralism about Global Poverty"
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

February 23, 2007

Thomas Scanlon (Philosophy, Harvard University)
Title: "When Does Equality Matter?"
Co-sponsored with the Stanford Philosophy Department and the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice
*** 3:15 - 5:30pm, Building 60, Room 61H *** 

March 9, 2007

A.J. Julius (Philosophy, NYU)
Title: "Nagel's Atlas" and "Basic Structure and Value of Equality"

March 30, 2007

Christian List (Government, London School of Economics)
Cancelled: To be rescheduled in 2007-08

April 4, 2007

Stanford University Tanner Lectures

Glenn Loury (Brown University)
Title: “Ghettoes, Prisons, and Racial Backlash”
5:30 – 7:00pm, Stanford Humanities Center

April 5, 2007

Stanford University Tanner Lectures

Glenn Loury (Brown University)
Title: “Social Identity and the Ethics of Punishment”
5:30 – 7:00pm, Stanford Humanities Center

April 10, 2007

Berkeley Tanner Lectures

Joshua Cohen (Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University)
Title: "On Public Reason"
4:00 – 6:30pm, University of California at Berkeley, Toll Room, Alumni House

April 11, 2007

Berkeley Tanner Lectures

Joshua Cohen (Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Stanford University)
Title: "Democracy's Public Reason, Global Public Reason"
4:00 – 6:30pm, University of California at Berkeley, Toll Room, Alumni House

April 18, 2007

Stanford University Wesson Lectures

David Miller (Oxford University)
Title: "What Makes a Demos?"
5:30 – 7:00pm, Cordura Hall, Room 100
Sponsored by the Program in Ethics in Society

April 19, 2007

Stanford University Wesson Lectures

David Miller (Oxford University)
Title: "Democratic Inclusion and Exclusion"
5:30 – 7:00pm, Cordura Hall, Room 100
Sponsored by the Program in Ethics in Society

April 27, 2007

Location Change: CISAC Central Conference Room, Encina 2nd Floor

Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Political Science, Stanford University)
Title: "Politics of Precaution"

May 4, 2007

Ayelet Shachar (Law, University of Toronto, visitor 2006-07 Stanford Law School)
Title: "Global Inequality and Birthright Citizenship"
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice 

May 11, 2007

Adam Hosein (PhD student, Philosophy, MIT; visiting pre-doctoral student at Stanford)
Title: How much can political philosophy tell us about global fairness?
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 18, 2007

Uday Mehta (Political Science, Amherst College)
Title: "The Language of Peace and the Practice of Non-Violence"
Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice

May 25, 2007

Linda Zerilli (Political Science, Northwestern University & Visiting Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center)
Title: "Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment"