Seminars

Held during Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters, this faculty-driven interdisciplinary workshop series to explore the global institutional stability with input from invited speakers who study various dimensions of institutional failure and success. Through these conversations, attendees will better understand how and in what ways institutions shape society and future prosperity.
Two male presenting people having a discussion with others.
Professor Ruth Bloch Rubin (Political Science) presents at a seminar in Spring 2026.

October 6
Institutions, Institutional Purpose, and Corruption, Seumas Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Charles Sturt University and Oxford University 
Neubauer Collegium Forum (5701 S Woodlawn Ave)

October 20
Is This Authority? Isaac Reed, Professor of Political and Social Thought and Sociology, University of Virginia
SSRB Tea Room (1226 E 59th St, Room 201)

November 3
Bad Words: Corruption, Politics, and the Politics of Knowledge, Marco Garrido, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago 
SSRB Tea Room (1226 E 59th St, Room 201)

December 8
Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law, Yale Law School (December 8) 
SSRB Tea Room (1226 E 59th St, Room 201)

January 26
Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago 

February 9
Bridget Fahey, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

February 23
Larissa Brewer-Garcia, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago

March 9
Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University

March 30
Daniel Scholzman, Professor of Political Science, John Hopkins University

April 13
Gillian Metzger, Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law School

Spring Quarter TBD
Kathryn Takabvirwa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Spring Quarter TBD
Bill Bulman, Professor of History, Lehigh University