2018: âPreserving the Democratic and a Jewish nature of Israel given current realities.â Invited talk at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich
2017: âBehavioral economics and access to Jewish life: what we can learn from Toyota and Westinghouse.â Invited seminar, Hebrew Union CollegeâJewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem.
2016: âMaking and unmaking the Jewish People: Reflections on Israel, Religious Zionism and the crisis of leadership in North American Jewry.â Invited talk at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH.
âLiberalism in America.â Invited plenary address at the 2016 Policy History Conference, Nashville, TN. (with Rogers Smith, Jeffrey Tullis and William Rorabaugh).
2015: âOn Representing.â Invited talk at the University of York, UK.
âRepresentation, Authority and Right.â Conference on Representation, University of York, UK.
âRepresentation, Authority and Right.â Political Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis
2012: Invited Centennial Speaker, Political Theory, Empirical Political Analysis, and the Evolution of Political Science, Canadian Political Science Association annual meeting, Alberta, Canada. June.
âWhy Children Should Be Allowed to Vote (but not their Grandparents).â Invited talk. Professor Emeriti Monthly Meeting, Washington University in St. Louis. April.
âWhat Makes Representation Democratic, Legitimate or Just?â Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland. March.
âDemocratic Theory, Responsiveness and Federalism.â Invited speaker and discussant. Mini-conference on Policy Responsiveness in the Context of Federalism, Center for American Political Responsiveness, Penn State University, February.
âThe Representation of Hobbes.â Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans. January.
2011: âWhy Thomas Hobbes had no theory of representationâ Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia. November.
âThe Political Representation of Children.â Invited guest in Professor Rogers Smithâs citizenship seminar, University of Pennsylvania. November.
âHanna Pitkinâs Concept of Democracy.â Paper presentation for the Association for Political Theory annual meeting. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (October) and
âWhat Makes Representation Democratic, Legitimate or Just?â Invited keynote speaker for conference on Representation and Legitimacy, University of Reading, UK. September.
âThe Political Representation of Children.â Invited Speaker for First Year Faculty Talk Series, Washington University in St. Louis. August.
âDogmatic Political Theoryâ Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle. August.
âWhy Children Should Be Allowed to Vote (but their Grandparents Shouldnât)â Invited talk. First Year Faculty Talk Series, Washington University in St. Louis, August.
âHannah Pitkinâs concept of democracy or What a concept of representation should do.â Invited presentation Workshop, Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique, Montreal. May
âThe Political Representation of Children.â Invited Talk, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. April.
âThe Concepts of Representation.â Political Theory Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. January.
âThe Political Representation of Children.â Political Theory colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. January.
2010: âRepresenting Childrenâ (âThe Political Rights of Childrenâ)
Faculty Colloquium, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, November
American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September.
Workshop, Law School, Washington University in St. Louis, July.
Canadian Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal, June.
âThe Concepts of Representationâ distributed paper for, âPolitical Representation: New Directions.â Invited participant. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. October.
2009: âThe Paradox of Racial Profiling: distinguishing public and private reasons.â Panel on Racial Profiing, Center for Ethics and Human Values. November.
Invited Participant, âWorkshop on Political Representation,â University of Berne, Bern Switzerland. November.
Invited Participant in âChild as Citizenâ authorâs workshop, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, sponsored by Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies and the Harvard School of Public Health. November.
Invited Faculty Speaker, âReasons and the Life of the Mind.â Freshman Convocation, Washington University in St. Louis August.
âTrustees, Delegates and Gyroscopes: Political Representation and Democratic Justiceâ
Invited talk, Columbia University Political Theory Workshop. March.
2008: âGeorge Washington and Virtue.â Invited talk, Assembly Series, Washington University in St. Louis. September.
âOn Quotas and Qualifications for Office,â
Association for Political Theory annual meeting, October.
âDemocratic Lawmaking and Political Representation.â
Invited talk, Stanford University Political Theory Workshop, February.
âWhy Universities Sponsor Presidential Debates.â MLA Seminar Series, Washington University in St. Louis. February
âDemocratic Lawmaking and Political Representation.â
Political Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, January .
2007: âOffensive Political Theoryâ
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September.
2006: âTrustees, Delegates and Gyroscopesâ: Democratic Justice and the Ethics of Political Representationâ
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September.
âLocke, the Hebrew Bible and the American Revolution.â
Conference on Political Hebraism, Shalem Center, Jerusalem, December.
âThe Strange Case of John Locke and the Hebrew Bible in the Second Treatise on Government.â
Association for Political Theory, Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN, October.
âQuotas and Qualifications.â
Invited talk for âRethinking Political Orderâ conference, Yale University, October
âQuotas and Qualifications.â
Invited talk, Political Theory workshop, Brown University. October.
âTrustees, Delegates and Gyroscopes: Democratic Justice and the Ethics of Political Representation.â
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September
âPolitical Representation as a Gross Conceptâ
Presented at âReconsidering Democratic Representation,â Conference at University of British Columbia, May.
âPolitical Representation as a Gross Concept.â
Invited talk at the Montreal Political Theory Workshop on new developments in the theory of political representation, McGill University, April.
âOffensive Political Theory.â
Presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, April.
âA General Theory of Political Representation.â
Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, February.
2005: âA General Theory of Political Representation.â
Invited talk, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, December.
âA General Theory of Political Representation.â
Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, December.
âOffensive Political Theoryâ
Presented at the Association for Political Theory, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, October.
âTowards a General Theory of Political Representation.â
Invited talk at the Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia University Law School, September.
âQuotas and Qualifications: Gender, age, and the presumptive right to run for officeâ
Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September.
2004: âElectoral Representation, Revisitedâ
Invited Presentation at âTransformation of Democratic Representation,â Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, Georgetown University, June.
2003: âLegitimate political representation and electoral constituencies: creating a baseline for institutional design.â
Presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2003, Philadelphia, September.
âThe Logic of Affirmative Actionâ
Presented at the STA Conference on Diversity and Social Discrimination, Washington University in St. Louis, March.
2002: âThe Perils of Ethics and Public Policyâ
Invited talk, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, October.
âQualified to Rule: Age Qualifications and Democratic Legitimacyâ
Brownbag talk, Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, Washington University in St. Louis, September.
2001: âThe Extended Republic and James Madisonâs Federalist 10â
Conference on constitutions and voting, Washington University in St. Louis, December.
âOn Legitimacy and Political Representation.â
Invited talk Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, February.
âOn Legitimacy and Political Representation.â
Invited talk Department of Political Science, University of Texas, Austin, February
âOn Legitimacy and Political Representation.â
Invited talk Department of Political Science, George Washington University, January.
2000: âOn Legitimacy and Political Representation.â
Invited talk Department of Political Science, The University of Pittsburgh, December.
âOn Legitimacy and Political Representationâ
Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Middlebury College, November
1999: âThe Extended Republic and James Madisonâs Federalist 10â
Invited University Lecture, Western Michigan University, November.
âThe Concept of Constituency,â
Invited presentation, Political Science Department Colloquium, Western Michigan University, November.