Lectures for Academic Year 2009-10 Fall 2009

Monday: 10/5

R. Harrison Wagner, a seminar on his recent book: War and the State: the theory of International Politics (Michigan) Monday October 5, 2009. 11 am - 1pm (lunch will be available). CIDCM Conference room, Tydings Hall. (co-sponsored by the Department of Government and Politics formal theory and International Relations fields, and working group on Contentious Politics, University of Maryland).

Since the number of seats is limited, if coming from off campus, please register with Cyrus Aghamolla: (cyrus3@mail.umd.edu) by Sept 29.  A reception will be held at the home of Joe Oppenheimer (RSVP) at 7:30pm, Sunday 10.4.   


Friday 10/23

Conference/Workshop (co-sponsored by the Department of Government and Politics formal theory field, University of Maryland), October 23, 2009.
Individual Preferences and Social Outcomes Atrium, Adele H. Stamp Student Union.  Goodin / List / Swistak.

The papers that will be presented / discussed are:

Franz Dietrich and Christian List: A Model of Non-Informational Preference

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F. Dietrich is at the  University of Maastricht and List is at LSE.

	Robert Goodin and Kai Spiekermann: Epistemic Aspects of Representative Government

	Professor Goodin , is a professor in the Philosophy Program Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University.  His coauthor, KAI SPIEKERMANN, is in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick

	Piotr Swistak: THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL PREFERENCES

Piotr Swistak is a professor in the Goverenment and Politics Department,  University of Maryland at College Park