Northwestern Events Calendar

Feb
6
2023

Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James's Internationalism from Below

When: Monday, February 6, 2023
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Graduate Students

Contact: Ariel Sowers   (847) 491-7454

Group: Department of Political Science

Category: Academic

Description:

Please join the Political Theory Coloquium as they host Dr. Katrina Forrest, Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Government and Committee on Social Studies at Harvard University.

Dr. Katrina Forrester is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Government and Committee on Social Studies at Harvard University. She is a political theorist and historian with research interests in twentieth-century and contemporary social and political theory. She is particularly interested in the history of liberalism and the left in the postwar US and Britain; Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis; climate politics; and theories of work and capitalism. Forrester's first book, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a history of how political philosophy was transformed by postwar liberalism, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, and the rise of liberal egalitarianism.

To access the paper please reach out to Shawn Dean, ShawnDean2023@u.northwestern.edu. Registration is not required for in-person attendence. 

Register Add to Calendar

Add Event To My Group:

Please sign-in