Faculty Leader

Melissa Lane

Meeting Day/Time

Mondays, 11:50 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.

Location

301 Wooten Hall
 

2025-2026 Schedule of Presentations

Fall 2025

dATEPresenterTitle/PaperDiscussant(s)
9/08/2025Welcome Meeting  
9/15/2025Aemann McCornackLest You Linger in this Perpetual State of War:
On the Concept of Meionectic Tyranny in Xenophon's Hiero 		Elaine Yim
9/22/2025Professional Development Session  
9/29/2025Elaine YimThe Guiding Force of Our Normative Ideals on Social Change in a Non-Ideal World: An Ethnographically Informed InquiryN/A
10/06/2025Jose SanchezPractice Job TalkN/A
10/13/2025No Meeting (Fall Recess)  
10/20/2025Gaby NairPractice Job TalkN/A
10/27/2025Meredith GehrlichDissertation ChapterHelen Lee
11/03/2025Andrew HahmPractice Job TalkN/A
11/10/2025POL Department Talk  
11/17/2025Mollie EisnerProspectusEli Pallrand
11/24/2025Simon Vöhringer Gabriel Karger
12/01/2025Cole SmithProspectusBenjamin Gross-Loh
12/08/2025Wanzhen Zhou Darius Weil
 12/09/2025Gülin Ustabas ProspectusClaudia Cervantes

 

SPRING 2026

 

DatePresenterTitle/PaperDiscussant(s)
1/26/2026Darius WeilEpistemic Legitimacy of Education PolicyKritika Vohra
2/02/2026Gabriel KargerMost Favored Nation Theory of Religious and Secular ExemptionsAidan Calvelli
2/09/2026Atticus Carnell Cole Smith
2/16/2026Chelsea GuoFalse Consciousness for FeministsAtticus Carnell
2/23/2026 HOLD 
3/02/2026Kritika VohraDissertation ChapterGülin Ustabas
3/09/2026 No Meeting (Spring Break) 
3/17/2026Claudia Cervantes PerezDissertation ChapterMollie Eisner
3/23/2026Helen Lee591 PaperMeredith Gehrlich
3/30/2026Aidan Calvelli591 PaperSimon Vöhringer
4/06/2026Lynnea ShuckAsian American History and ActivismWanzhen Zhou
4/13/2026Eli Pallrand Aemann McCornack
4/20/2026Benajmin Gross-Loh Chelsea Guo