Past News & Events
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Applying for the PPL Program
The application process takes place in the spring semester. More information about how to apply and deadlines will be available in early January 2023.
Friday, December 7, 2018
Professor Ryan Pevnick (NYU) Defensible Epistocracy
Discussant: Chris Berk (UVA PPL)
2:00–3:45 Gibson 296
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Professor Deborah Hellman (UVA Law) Measures of Algorithmic Fairness
Discussant: Matthias Brinkmann (UVA PPL)
2:00–3:45 Nau 342
Friday, October 26, 2018
Mini-conference on Human Dignity
Presented in association with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (with thanks especially to Joe Davis and Tal Brewer)
Presentations by Colin Bird (UVA), Michelle Mason (University of Minnesota), Remy Debes (University of Memphis), and Nick Wolterstorff (emeritus, Yale and UVA)
*Please note that the organizers of the PT Colloquium have kindly agreed to delay Robert Gooding-Williams’s appearance that day to 2.30 to allow time for anyone who wishes to attend the first session of the Dignity conference (12-2) to make it back for the PT Colloquium as well. I am grateful to Stephen White for his flexibility.
12-5pm Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Watson Manor, 3 University Circle
Friday, September 28, 2018
Professor David Ciepley (University of Denver) Neoliberalism and the Corporation: Mutually Contradictory and Corrupting
Discussant: Alex Bliberg (UVA Politics)
2:00-3:45 Gibson 296
Friday, April 27, 2018
Chris Berk (PPL Fellow—University of Virginia) Custody and Community Control
2:00 Gibson Hall 296
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Julian Nida-Rümelin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Democracy as Cooperation
Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy
3:30 Rouse-Robertson 123
Friday, March 30, 2018
Matthias Brinkmann (University of Virginia) Three Queries for the Interest Theory of Rights
2:00 Gibson Hall 296
Friday, November 17, 2017
Naomi Choi (Political Science, University of Houston) Title TBA
Commentator: tba
2:00-3:45 Gibson 296
Friday, October 27, 2017
Matthew Adams (Philosophy, UVA) An Ideological Critique of Nonideal Methodology
Commentator: tba