The winter schedule for the Political Theory Workshop is now posted. On March 10th I’ll be presenting a draft of my research on St. Elizabeths. The working title of that chapter is “Mad Politics: Voice on an Asylum Ward” — hope to see you there!
I’m leading a year-long colloquium for political science students at the University of Chicago. A first draft of my syllabus is now posted.
The Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board (SBS-IRB) at the University of Chicago has approved the study design for my boarding school case study. In addition to various institutional records on student behavior, the data for my case will be generated from a social network survey instrument, non-participant observation, and interviews of students and staff. Hooray data!
Wonderful news! The Social Science Division at the University of Chicago has awarded me two grants, one to write up my research at St. E’s over the summer and another, larger grant to fund all the costs associated with my on-going dissertation research.
This week marks the end of my two-year term as the coordinator of the Political Theory Workshop at the University of Chicago. Daniel Nichanian, a third year in the department, will be running the workshop when it resumes in the fall. The workshop is in capable hands, I know Daniel will do an amazing job.
This will be my first year presenting at the Social Science History Association’s annual conference, Nov. 21-24. I’m on an amazing panel titled “Taking the ‘Crime’ Out of Criminal Justice: Non-Criminal Aspects of Arrest and Incarceration in the United States.”
I’ll be in Boston next week presenting a revised draft of my research on Walpole at the Law and Society Association’s (LSA) Annual Meeting. The working title of my paper is “The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison.”
I’ll be participating in an all-day workshop on deinstitutionalization and decarceration this Friday. Outside guests include Jonathan Metzl (Protest Psychosis) and Michael Rembis (Defining Deviance) — should be an amazing venue to present and listen to exciting, in-progress research. Poster available here. My remarks here.
I’m teaching the third part of the three-part Classics of Social and Political Thought (CSPT) sequence at the University of Chicago this quarter. A first draft of my syllabus is now posted.
The students in Bernard Harcourt’s Law and Political Thought seminar will be reading and discussing an early draft of my research on Walpole this Friday. Looking forward to the feedback!
Christopher D. Berk 