Keynote Lecturer

Teresa Bejan received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. She has taught at Columbia University, the University of Toronto, and Oxford University where she is currently a...

Martha C. Nussbaum received her BA from NYU and her MA and PhD from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago...

Anna Stilz is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  Her research focuses on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism and self...

Jeremy Waldron teaches legal and political philosophy at NYU School of Law. Until recently, he was also Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University (All Souls College). His books include Dignity, Rank, and Rights (2012), Partly...

Danielle Allen is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the...

Sharon Krause is Professor of Political Science and the author of Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism (University of Chicago Press, 2015); Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation (Princeton University Press...

Bernard Yack is a political theorist who has published widely on both contemporary issues and major figures in the history of political thought. He is best known for his new book on nationalism (Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community) and his...

Patchen Markell has wide-ranging interests in contemporary political and social theory and the history of political thought. He is especially interested in the disparate theoretical traditions that trace their roots back to Kant, Hegel, and Marx; in the...