Monday November 25, 2019 (Watson Hall, room 517, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)

Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)

Arash Abizadeh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and an associate member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. His research focuses on democracy theory and questions of identity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism; immigration and border control; the relation between the passions, rhetoric, discourse, and politics; and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, particularly Hobbes and Rousseau.