Reading Group 2022-2023 AY

Reading Group

Student organizers: Furkan Berkant Yavuz and Tom Boyle

The reading group is open to all CEU students. Students who wish you participate and obtain the assigned reading should send a message to acpt@ceu.edu

1st meeting

Time: 7:45 pm, Monday, 17 October

Place: QS A-201

Assigned reading: An Interview with Michel Foucault, entitled “Truth and Power".

2nd meeting

Time: 7:45 pm, Monday, 14 November

Place: QS A-201

Assigned reading: Nancy Fraser: "Feminist Politics in the Age of Recognition: A Two-dimensional Approach to Gender Justice" (2007).

3rd meeting

Time: 7:45 pm, Monday, 28 November

Place: QS A-201

Assigned reading: Perry Anderson: Structure and Subject.

4th meeting

Time: 7:30 pm, Monday, 30 January

Place: QS A-201

Assigned reading: Michael Oakeshott: "On Being Conservative".

PhD Research seminar: Constitutionalists at a distance. The role of Iranians abroad in adopting a constitution for late Qajar Iran

Speaker: Sara Zanotta

Time: 5:40 pm, Monday, 30 January

Place: QS A-211

5th meeting

Time: 7:30 pm, Monday, 27 February

Place: QS A-201

Assigned reading: Georges Sorel: "The Ethics of Violence" (chapter 6) In: Reflections on Violence.

6th meeting

Time: 7:30 pm, Monday, 13 March

Place: QS A-201

Assigned reading: Excerpts from: Jean Baudrillard: Carnival and Cannibal.